Walk the Line

How God humbled the proud and gave grace to the humble. </font>[/QUOTE]God does not humble the proud. The Bible says God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. God will resist a proud person.

 

Where is God not? Again, seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear.

 

Who humbled Nebuchadnezzar?

 

Well, let's see. He's not in any of the songs that started his career or made him famous. I can't see that He was in Cash's abdication of the reponsibility to work and provide for his own. He wasn't in the fact that Johnny nurtured his lust for another woman, or in the fact that June Carter became his "savior."

Possibly the worst thing in my and God's sight about this movie, is that the victim of his infidelities is one of the bad guys, but of course, we the audience must have a reason to justify Cash's adultery and love the "other woman" more than the one to which he owed his faith and his love.

I understand Vivian Distin, the first Mrs. Johnny Cash, wrote a book that will be published next year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/ap_en_ot/people_cash_book

It will be interesting to see her take on the subject.

 

Hey, I already agreed that there was nothing that you could have learned. No need to keep trying to prove that point.

Well, God and I saw it differently. We didn't see Vivian as the bad guy, but as yet another victim of Cash's pride.

 

I'm talking about the film. If I recall he was told that Gospel doesn't sell, and he was asked if he could choose any song to be remembered for before he died, what would it be. So he sang Folsom Prison Blues, and that's what started his career—according to the movie.

It was obviously easier for him than being a good husband. Much more lucrative, too.

I don't remember that in the movie.

Do you see how easy it was for you to marginalize Vivian's wounds as a character defect? But that's what you were supposed to do.

 

You want to make this about the man. My comments are about the movie.

It was simply an adulterous love story, and the only redeeming qualities you can come up for it are things that were not included.

So, even if Johnny was a role model for our Sunday School children, the movie was bad because, as curtis said, it's a lie.

 

My comments were about the characters as portrayed in the movie. If the actual people are sorely misrepresented, it was a bad movie.

I didn't, and any wife who has been cheated on will agree with me. You don't know what you're saying, and your analysis of her situation is lacking in insight.

But then, I'm looking at it from God's point of view...

When the central theme and the resolution of the conflict are antithetical to the commands of Christ, then it can't be redeemed.

Then though I've limited my comments to the characters in the movie, they are also more or less accurate of John and June the people.

 

In the store today, I saw a documentary about Johnny Cash on DVD. The cover said that this was a "revealing documentary about 'The Man in Black' as told by special friends, including Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kris Kristoferson, Billy Bob Thornton, Marty Stuart and Rodney Crowell."

It's called Half Mile A Day and came with a more brief documentary called Johnny Cash: The Anthology.

Knowing the spiritual calibre of the "special friends" listed, I was sure there was something the movie version must have been perverting. So I bought it, and devoted three hours of the time that God allotted me on this earth to watch it.

Though there is some, oh-so-brief lip service paid to Johnny's professed faith, it's as I said earlier. The songs that started his career and made him famous and paid his bills, had nothing to do with God or spirituality.

 

I finally got around to seeing this movie and we thoroughly enjoyed it! I can't believe how good the actor playing Cash did. Wow!

 

Seeing that Jesus was only able to reach one Pharisee while he walked this earth Mike McK, I truly respect how gentle you have been with Aaron. Pharisees have their own method, their own agenda, and their own theology! And I am glad that my righteousness doesn't surpass theirs, but my Jesus' does, and His has been imputed to me! Keep up the good work Mike...I enjoy reading your posts...and your vast collection of musical taste!

NOW PLAYING Todd Agnew's, My Jesus

 

I rented the movie again, and watched it with all these posts in mind.

Very well acted & performed. Some inaccuracies & omissions.

For example, did you know the part in the movie where the tractor got stuck ? Well, that happened, but the incident started a huge forest fire, and Uncle Sam fined him $85,000. Why was that incident changed ? It bugs me. ($85,000 was a lot of money, even for him, back then)

I still love the man's music. I sang "Train of Love" at a gig on Saturday, the crowd loved it.

 

Ok. I know it was the same year he was busted for smuggling amphetamine.

On another note, I'll bet the Folsom warden was sweating bullets when Johnny sang "Cocaine Blues" to the inmates.