Saturday, 16 December 2017

Bible Stories : What are they about?

Here is a quick version of Sodom and Gommorah:


Logline: Man and his addiction ruin his life; he needs to change before life as he knows it is ruined,for himself and everyone around him.

Synopsis:

Abraham has a drinking problem his sin, he grabs the liquor and not his wife. When running from the city in the fire and brimstone storm hitting everyone.

We know this as after he has fermented wine later and that takes awhile to ferment so he was busy; not getting his wife out and not warning the neighbourhood, he was gathering up his alcohol to take, worldly things is what he focused on not people.

His choice destroyed his family life. It gets way more tragic later how he abuses the kids because he is drunk and is not in his right mind.He does not have the wife he needs because he focused on his drinking and not her it destroys his family and his city as he was supposed to be the influence the leader. He did not have his priorities straight.

Now most say it was the "others sins" but it was the religious ones sins, because the "others" are watching the religious, and how did Abraham deal with things, he tries to stop the "other" men and their homosexual behaviour , by devaluing his daughter throwing them up for use and abuse them sexually. Was this going to encourage the homosexuals to be like him? No.

They do not want to do that devalue the girls. What example was he? A bad one, he did not present the picture of what family life was he was a mess his whole family needed to be redeemed.

He should have been valuing his wife and daughter and presenting an example of what a life was to look like. He did not he just said here have at my daughter maybe that will distract you, was it an answer NO!It lead to the tragedy.

The whole question he argued with God about earlier was, can anyone be saved? Answer if there are even a few righteous ones to live and set an example to guide and direct others, but if not then if they lead them astray to ruin then all is lost. Theme of the whole story.

They seen he did not have his priorities right.

When he should have been listening to God, to guide him to do the right thing.

But did he? No, he did not take the warning the storm is coming serious, he did not let go of his sins, he did not focus on his family, being a leader, and example to others,he did not grab his wife , grab the kids, get the neighbours warn them, get them to safety in time.

NO! He did not.

What did he do, grabbed wine and liquor tried to take his sin with him, he focused on his sin and not the others not his family kids or wife, just his sins and clinging to them.

As a result the wife was lost , the kids suffered abuse, with him intoxicated trying to escape reality rather than dealing with life or his situation and circumstances, he tried to escape it using the wrong thing drugs and wine.

His wife, kids and neighbours were lost because of this sin.

Moral of the story, men need to face life, focus on family be a leader be an example to others. Let go of their sins before it destroys themselves or others all around them. The micro and the macrocosm of life.

So theme of the story, clinging to sins destroys yourself and your family and everyone else around you. They won't listen, and they won't respect you if you can not respect yourself and let go of your sins and focus on the right things.

As Jesus would say later: "Remove the plank from your own eye before trying to point out others sins!"

See the universal themes? STORY OF LIFE!

We all need God to redeem us as the need for mercy and grace due to each human having sin. Not one is without it. That is why these stories resonate with everyone all over the globe.

The whole world needs stories like these because as humans we need to see that even in these peoples lives God never gave up on them, He was going to save them and redeem them in the end. We all need that to know there is HOPE in the end!

That is why writing the story of redemption , that out of the worst tragic mess there is still hope in the end and it is never to late to change or be redeemed.

As in the story above eventually Abraham gave up the drink and redeemed his life got back on track but it took God playing the antagonist in his life to say this drinking and mess you got yourself in has to stop what do I have to do to interrupt you and change life until you suffer the consequence and pain of not changing becomes more pain than the pain of changing will be?




Universal Stories and Themes in the Bible

Bible Stories: Universal Themes

The Bible is the best place to read about the human condition and existence.

Example: Jonah, a guy who refused to accept his life situation and circumstances.

Character arc: The thing he needs grace and mercy he has to find in himself before he can give it away.

The STORY: We all want to run away from life from the people and places we hate.
Is that a realistic option? NO!

If we won't willingly confront or meet lifes challenges situations and circumstances, it will force us to do so, willingly or not.

WHAT is the SOLUTION? Jonah, tries to run away, LIFE turns AGAINST HIM, the ANTAGONIST that LIFE will OPPOSE and thwart every attempt to escape the people and places we hate and the destiny LIFE has. 

THE MACRO: The other that Jonah hates is a larger picture of The MICRO: Jonah's life, himself.

Reflect your characters INNER STORY with their OUTER STORY and JOURNEY!

What small problem becomes the bigger problem externally if they can not solve it internally?

THAT is CHARACTER GROWTH the development and ARC!

WHAT is the lesson or POINT? Jonah, has to learn to LOVE the people and places he hates.
He can't do that without first loving himself. Accepting where he is at, and with whom he has to deal with in life. When he can accept his own fate, and himself, can he accept others who are different and love them exactly as they are, as God created them to be? How does he learn to do that? By learning God created him for a special purpose, and he needs to accept that fate.

Question:
If he can help himself , he can help others. Will he be able to do so?

SEE the CLASSIC STORY CHARACTER ARC?

It is the development of the human being. THAT is what STORY is all about!

If you get writers block, go back to the bible and read the stories, and LEARN from them, the CHARACTER ARC and GROWTH, both INNER and OUTER, that is the EXACT, SAME THINGS you have to do, and present in YOUR SCREENPLAYS, with YOUR CHARACTERS!

Where are they at? 

What challenges are they facing?

Why is it so hard to deal with?

What is their weakness?

Where do the start out? 

Where do they need to be when they finish?

WHAT INNER and OUTER GROWTH will they SHOW?

HOW are they going to show that?

Like in Jonah, he shows the macro and the microcosm of life.

The man needs to accept himself and his situation and circumstances first and love himself before he can succeed and learn to love the others that he claims are different in every way.
The Ninevah people. Different colour, creed, culture,religion, and nation.

If Jonah is going to succeed and learn anything in LIFE, he has to accept himself before he can accept others. 

If he wants grace and mercy himself he has to show it to others.

LIFE, GOD the antagonist thwarts him when he runs away through the allegory of the whale, the situation and circumstance that is the catalyst for FORCING HIM to confront life and gives him NO OTHER WAY OUT he HAS TO JOURNEY TO HIS DESTINY.



His choice is whether he succeeds and learns or is doomed to repeat and go in circles until he does?

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Happy Holidays!

Hanukkah 2017 will begin in the evening of Tuesday, December 12 and ends in the evening of Wednesday, December 20

Friday, 8 December 2017

Poetry

2017 - 12 -08
~Krista Kaufman~

As John Milton would say, Lucifer and his fall are like the autumnal leaves,
and in Christ we stand, have victory, and trample satan and his hordes under our feet!

Paradise only be lost, to those who fail to pray, in Jesus name,
for it is the true and living God, our Father, Holy Lord, Jesus upon the cross;
He died that none be lost!

Pray now, ask and you shall receive;
His anointing Holy Spirit, Salvation be!

Poetry

  2017 - 12 - 08
~Krista Kaufman~

I am not conceited; I am convinced.

I am certain; I do exist.

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