The Man from Earth: Holocene Page #7

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Philip.

What am I doing here?

You've kidnapped me.

Do you realize that?

We just wanted you to stay.

I wanted to go.

So you knocked me out

and tied me to a chair.

No, um...

Cut me loose.

I'll leave.

You'll never hear from me again.

I'm sorry.

- I can't.

- Yes, you can.

Just cut the tape and walk away.

Do you want something to drink?

No.

Why are you doing this?

Philip!

I want to know the truth.

You want to know the truth.

Where are the others?

They'll be back soon.

So is there a plan, or are

you guys just winging it?

I mean, am I going to be tortured

for information? I don't

know where the bomb is hidden, I don't

have any gold treasure stashing.

They just went to go get Dr. Jenkins.

Art.

(SCOFFS)

Art is an angry, bitter man.

He does not have our best interest at heart.

He only wants to talk to you.

(SCOFFS)

I'm tied to a chair

and Art wants to talk to me.

I'm concerned for your safety.

You need to cut me loose.

Where do you worship, Philip?

I mean, I'm assuming that you worship

somewhere because you seem...

Will you please just stop talking?

Please.

Wouldn't sitting here

in silence be much worse?

I don't know, okay?

I'm just trying to think.

Okay.

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

It's the Jubilee Christian Fellowship,

my church.

I've heard of it.

You live locally with your mother, right?

She attends as well?

Yeah.

She know where you are right now?

She's at a retreat.

What kind?

Transformation Conference.

It's about

preparing for the future.

Protecting the church.

So she's very involved.

Both of you are.

Yeah, it's her mostly,

because I'm busy with school.

You'll be more involved

after you graduate, right?

- These...

- I have questions, okay?

I have some questions.

Will you answer them?

To the best of my ability.

- I want to...

- You want to talk about Jesus.

Okay.

You believe the Bible

as the word of God, right?

Absolutely.

How did you come to that belief?

Um...

Growing up, my dad drank.

(SNIFFLES) And he hit my mother,

so we got out of there.

Some people took us in and they, uh...

They brought us to the church,

and it saved us, really.

We were baptized.

Born again.

And you now have a personal relationship

with Jesus Christ as your savior?

Yes, sir, I do.

What would he want you to do now?

I don't know.

Why don't you tell me?

Who exactly do you think I am?

I don't know.

I don't know. You're certainly the

best professor that I've ever had.

And you know more about the Bible

than even Pastor Michaels,

plus every other religion besides.

Most of my teachers, they don't...

They won't...

acknowledge the central

truth of scripture. They

believe that faith and science can't

co-exist and that's just not true.

That's not how you teach it.

That just means I'm a decent teacher.

Right?

I met Isabel freshman year.

It was in your Intro class.

She was the first one of us to

realize there's just something

different about you and...

The way you spoke.

I mean, you saved that janitor's life.

That was just CPR, you could do it.

You talked that girl out of suicide.

She just needed someone to hear her.

Yeah, but there's all the other

weird stuff, too. You know, like

how there's no pictures of you anywhere.

There's no record of you online before

you started teaching at the school.

I've got my own reasons for wanting

to be very private these days.

That's all.

I mean, on one hand

what if God really did send His

Son to Earth to spread His word.

Maybe you're exactly how He'd do it, right?

Allow a man to live for thousands

and thousands of years,

traveling the world, collecting

all of this knowledge and wisdom,

and once he's finally got it

he starts preaching.

What he's saying is the truth,

so people grasp it right away.

It's like Christianity. It took over the

world in just a couple of hundred years.

Yes, it did.

- It makes a certain kind of sense.

- And you want to believe that story.

I'm not sure.

Because

if you are Jesus, then

that means that the Bible is just

fiction.

I need...

I want to know the truth. I need

to know the truth. Can you

just tell me the truth, please?

If I tell you the truth,

Philip, will you let me go?

Yeah, I guess so.

- Okay, I want you to listen very carefully.

- Okay, just wait a second...

Two thousand years ago,

I stood on a hill in Galilee

and I spoke

some basic spiritual truths

I'd picked up over the years.

And when the gospels were written,

they called me Christ.

But frankly, the whole thing

got a lot bigger

and went in a very different

direction than I ever intended.

It got violent and scary and I took off.

I've kept my head down ever since.

And I have to move on far

more often than I would like.

(ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING)

But lately something's changed.

I'm getting lines in my face, gray hair.

I don't heal as fast as I used to.

And I don't know

if it's something in the air,

or in the water, the food.

Something in my blood, or DNA...

or a ticking time bomb in my soul.

I feel different.

Are you dying?

I don't know. Maybe.

Maybe I'm just changing.

Into what?

If your time is limited, it's more important

now than ever for you to come forward.

For you to spread the word as only you can.

I've thought about it a lot

and I want to help.

There is so much pain and suffering.

The New Testament said that I would

return, but the truth is I never left.

The Book of Revelation says that

Jesus will rule over this planet with

his believers for a thousand years.

Shouldn't there be a better way to help

people than ruling over them like a king?

But what about the Rapture,

where the Dead in Christ will rise?

Why not bring them into the light now?

Why condemn them to darkness?

Because they've condemned

themselves to darkness.

That's harsh.

No, it isn't. That's the fate of

those who haven't been saved.

As the fate of those who've

abandoned their faith.

Everyone can be saved.

Everyone can find peace and love.

Why not create a Heaven on Earth now?

We can help do that.

But right now I need your help.

What can I do?

It's time to cut me loose.

Yeah, okay.

Okay, what's your plan?

One step at a time.

If you're the Son of God, why can't

you just cut yourself loose?

(SCOFFS)

Son of Man.

No magical powers.

Okay, you want a plan.

There are many paths to enlightenment,

including the born-again

experience that you've had.

But there are equally valid paths.

No, there aren't.

It says in Matthew 18:3...

Um...

Jesus tells his disciples:

"Except ye be converted,

and become as little children,

ye shall not enter into

the kingdom of Heaven."

There are other approaches to

enlightenment that have been practiced

throughout time across the globe.

Why wouldn't we draw on that

experience, and that wisdom?

But do these other paths involve the

cleansing blood of Christ? Because...

The path is less important than the goal:

a personal transformation...

that enables us

to empathize with others and bring

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