“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.” ~Albert Camus~
Herod: “Bring that Baptist out, I want to talk to him”
Herodias: “Is this creature your prisoner, or are you his?”
Herod: “How do you find your lodgings, Baptist?”
-[John The Baptist]: “Lonely, If the Lord weren’t with me.”
Herod: “You’re not alone then, in your cell?”
-[John The Baptist]: “No. God comforts me. He sustains me.”
Herod: “- You talk like a fool.”
-[John The Baptist]: “- And I pray for your soul.”
Herod: “- Forget my soul.”
-[John The Baptist]: “- Not till you remember it. Go to your knees. Ask God to forgive your sins. Send back your brother’s wife.”
Herod: “-Now. (sword clanks).
-[John The Baptist]: ” Kill me, Herod. That you can do. Kill me,so I can live.”
Herod: “Before you leave us, Baptist, it grieves me to ask what you mean by that.”
-[John The Baptist]: “- My body’s worth nothing. You can do what you like with it. But my soul is eternal, and you can’t touch it.”*
Herod: “What do you know about a man named Jesus from Nazareth?”
-[John The Baptist]: “-He’s the one.”
Herod: “-The one what?”
-[John The Baptist]: “Jesus is gathering to himself the souls of men, as a shepherd gathers in his flock.”**
*Now the deal is this -Somebody’s got it all wrong here. Either the people in The Bible, or the people who think the bible is largely a fairy tale. There’s just one thing that sticks in my crawl 🤔 Many of the people in The Bible were willing to die for their beliefs -they were so convinced of what Jesus is… WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO DIE FOR WHAT YOU DON’T BELIEVE (risk death based upon what you don’t believe to be true -are you that certain?).
**Excerpt from the movie “The Greatest Story Ever Told” in which an exchange between “Herod the Great” (played by Jose Ferrer) and “John the Baptist” (played by Charleston Heston. Screenplay by George Stevens and James Lee Barrett (screenplay based on the novel of Fulton Oursler and the Bible). Directed by George Stevens.