Katy Perry vs. Muslims and The "Son of God" movie vs. The Reformed Confession

According to the BBC, Pop-singer one of Katy Perry new videos recently was edited in response to a petition claiming that a scene was blasphemous because a pendent with the Arabic word for God was reduced to sand in the video. The petition instigator is apparently very pleased and feels like his petition showed the justness of his cause based on the number of signers and the result. One could only assume from his concern that he can now watch the video and listen to Perry's music with a certain piece of mind that before the video allowed his to tolerate some Perry's other questionable tastes of clothing and behavior in her other videos. However, does this really change any hearts and minds? No, it just shows that people can get a studio to change a music video if it offends Muslims.

Don't misunderstand me, the third commandment - "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain" - is important and the application of WLC 113 list of sins forbidden in third commandment might mean that Perry's unedited video actually breaks the third commandment. So it commendable that the video was changed.

Oddly enough, though, there is a new Jesus movie coming out titled Son of God today. As a Reformed Christian who confesses that Jesus is one person with both a human and divine nature (WCF 8.2, 3) and as a result, in the language of WLC 109 about sins forbidden in the second - or first, if your Lutheran - commandment the movie coming out today is also blasphemous.  WLC 109 says,

... the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever; ... oppos[es] the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.

Since Jesus' person was both fully man and God the latest movie about Jesus is blasphemous. The question and answer in the Heidelberg Catechism (questions 96, 97, and 98) is also helpful here:

Question 96. What does God require in the second commandment?
Answer: That we in no wise represent God by images, nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his word.

Question 97. Are images then not at all to be made?
Answer: God neither can, nor may be represented by any means: but as to creatures; though they may be represented, yet God forbids to make, or have any resemblance of them, either in order to worship them or to serve God by them.

Question 98. But may not images be tolerated in the churches, as books to the laity?
Answer: No: for we must not pretend to be wiser than God, who will have his people taught, not by dumb images, (a) but by the lively preaching of his word.

Therefore, what are we to make of this latest movie about Jesus? Are we to petition the studios and movie theaters showing the movie? Am I supposed to close my eyes while I'm at work when the trailer is playing while I am going into the backroom of Wal-Mart? Or, even tell my employer that I quit because they're advertising a blasphemous film? No. That person up on the screen is not the Person who died for my sins and then rose from the dead so that I can have eternal life. The Person who died for my sins and gives me His righteousness didn't leave instructions for His followers to make society conform to His commandments. He will do that on His own. He did, however, tell us to spread the news to others that He offers salvation to all those who hate Him.

That Person took on humanity for my sake and was humiliated even in the act of taking the form of a servant (WLC 46 - 49) for His bride, the Church. All the Jesus movies can do is capture the human side of Jesus' humiliation, but as Heidelberg Catechism Q. 14 - 18 and WLC Q. 38 - 40 demonstrate the man on the screen is only fully human, but not divine which means he only dies for himself and cannot withstand the burden of God's wrath, restore us to righteousness and life, and will not rise from the dead.

There is, however, a place where I can go to meet the real Jesus, and it's referred to in WLC 109 as the appointed place to worship and take the ordinances that God did appoint by His Spirit which lives in me. That place is the visible church. The ordinances are preaching and the sacraments. God gave us a medium and the means to meet us "where we're at" and it's not a movie theater.