The 2007 AD movie, “The Man from Earth” was directed by Richard Schenkman and screen-written by Jerome Bixby. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, Ellen Crawford as Edith, William Katt as Art, Tony Todd as Dan and Alexis Thorpe as Linda Murphy.
It begins as a pretty good story which is described as “An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.”
The story is that a cave-man just happens to turn out to be immortal.
Sadly, at circa t=48:50 it becomes an anti-Christian Zeitgeist movement style rant: mythology mixed with anti-Bible prejudice. As it turns out, John Oldman knew the Buddha, learned meditation technique, and well, as Jesus and via such techniques he controlled his body to the point of being mistaken for being dead (which a spear thrust to the heart after crucifixion would do), then mistaken for resurrected and the rest is, or so we are told within this piece of anti-Christian propaganda asserts; the rest is not history.
The do the typical quick-fire elephant hurling with claims that there are many historical figures that did much the same as Moses as well as Jesus. You see, the substandard double standard is that no supposed skeptic is skeptical enough to ask about the other supposedly historical figures. It is assumed that the records of history, or myth, are to be taken as is. For example, the movie refers to the Buddha without establishing if any such person ever existed. Now, if he did then the stories about his having performed miracles came about 400 years after his death. They were written during the Christian era as, apparently, Buddhists seems to feel the need to match that which they were hearing about Jesus.
At circa t=1:07:00 they even take aim at the Bible even more directly and John does a hatchet job in claiming that Jesus/he never did this or that which the Bible claims he did. He is then asked to quote the sermon on the mount and the movie gets even more ridiculous when he asks “Which one? Darby, King James, New American Standard” as if those and/or any other printed Bible differs on the content of the sermon. If nothing else, this is just bad screenwriting.
For examples of how to refute such empty claims, see:
Buddha and Jesus
Christ myth – historical Jesus, Mythras, Horus, Inanna , Santa, etc., part 1 and part 2
On Jesus and Mythology and Shattering the Christ Myth