‘Only God can help a man endure’ – Will Smith

December 8, 2022253 views0

‘Only God can help a man endure’ – Will Smith

2022-12-08T10:01:12+01:00

By Marie

Willard Carroll Smith II, also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, an American actor and rapper while promoting his new film Emancipation, has stated “only God can help a man endure.”Speaking on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Smith talked about his latest film role as a formerly enslaved man called Peter which he said has brought him closer to God.Peter made history after a photo of him circulated during the Civil War showing his wounded back after years of physical lashings.“He had to endure and had to survive, only God could make a man, when you look at those marks on his back, only God could make that possible,” said Smith.Within the film, Peter is whipped so viciously that he falls into a coma and there meets God which escalates his faith to a higher level.Speaking of that moment, Smith said, “The difference between faith and revelation…he walked in the world with a knowledge of the divine, a knowledge of God that is just something that I’ve just desperately wanted to understand and explore.”Smith was raised in a Baptist household and attended a Roman Catholic school and church.In 2015, Smith said in an interview with The Christian Post that his Christian faith, which was instilled in him by his grandmother, helped him to accurately portray Bennet Omalu in Concussion, saying: “She was my spiritual teacher, she was that grandmother at the church, the one having the kids doing the Easter presentations and putting on the Christmas plays and her kids and grandkids had to be first.”He continued, “She was the most spiritually certain person that I had ever met in my entire life. Even to the point that when she was dying she was happy like she was really excited about going to heaven.”ALSO READ “God is good and God is love” – Dolly Parton