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1 | What about "The Passion of the Christ"? | Luke 24:14 | Aixen7z4 | 114138 | ||
I was not aware that a discussion had been started on this subject. A search on the words “passion” and “Christ” did not show the topic on the first few pages of results. I wonder if this was supposed to happen. Some things seem to happen by God’s will, that we do not understand. In the same vein: Is it not interesting that a movie like this would have been made by people who do not claim to be saved? (Or do they?) The purpose was not to evangelize. (Or was it?) But it may result in the salvation of many souls. Joseph’s brothers had no idea how the Lord would use their actions. Indeed, “As for them, they thought evil against him; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is that day, to save much people alive”. Likewise, those who crucified Jesus did not think they were helping to make our salvation possible. But they were fulfilling the determinate counsel of God. Had they known him they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But then, how would we be saved? That is one reason, I suppose, why blindness was imparted to them. “Because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him”. There are those who would impugn the motives of the film makers. But God is able to accomplish his will through them. As he told it, there is just one reason why the Christ had to suffer and die. It was so that repentance and remission of sins might be preached in his name among all nations. Whether or not these people are aware of it, they are contributing to the cause. |
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2 | What about "The Passion of the Christ"? | Luke 24:14 | Hank | 114141 | ||
Aixen: Mel Gibson produced, directed, and co-wrote the screenplay (with additional help from Isaiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John!). Additionally, he financed the project with his own money. Mr. Gibson is a follower of Jesus Christ, a Christian, a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Accordingly, he stands worlds apart from mainstream Hollywood who, along with much of the liberal media, have made every possible effort to pan and discredit the film. The irony is that "The Passion" is breaking box-office records left and right. --Hank | ||||||
3 | What about "The Passion of the Christ"? | Luke 24:14 | Aixen7z4 | 114154 | ||
I had begun a response that said, “That is good news”. Then I decided (That is my intellectual bent) to do some research on the professions of faith made by Mel Gibson and James Caviezel. To report them here may lead to a discussion of the nature of salvation, and that may be a good thing. I had read that Jim was a believer, a saved man. What I had heard about Mel was that he was a Catholic. Jim had said of Jesus, “I love him more than I ever knew possible. I love him more than my wife, my family”. After making the movie he said, “I connected to a place I could have never, ever gone. I don't want people to see me. All I want them to see is Jesus Christ”. See http://king-of-fools.com/archives/000623.php. Gibson, interviewed by the Herald Sun in Australia, was asked if Protestants are denied eternal salvation. "There is no salvation for those outside the (Catholic) church," Gibson replied. "I believe it."' See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4224452/ He elaborated: “Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She’s a much better person than I am. Honestly. She’s, like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it’s just not fair if she doesn’t make it, she’s better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it.” Those statements seem to portray a loyal Roman Catholic. They did not tell me much about his personal faith in Christ. What was his motivation in making the film? ‘Gibson also said in the interview that he was nearly suicidal before he made his controversial film. “I got to a very desperate place. Very desperate. Kind of jump-out-of-a-window kind of desperate,” he said in the interview. “And I didn’t want to hang around here, but I didn’t want to check out. The other side was kind of scary. And I don’t like heights, anyway. But when you get to that point where you don’t want to live, and you don’t want to die, it’s a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use ‘The Passion of the Christ’ to heal my wounds.”’ From all I have heard (I have not seen the film) the screenplay is faithful to the Scriptures. As such it would not detract from the message the that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again. It would not hide the fact that God puts forward repentance and faith as the requisites for salvation. We are not called upon to judged a man’s salvation or his motives. But from what I have read it seems that Mr. Gibson took to the project as therapy for his psychological ailment rather than as an evangelical project. As I said before, that may be God’s way. This movie probably had to be made in Hollywood rather than by the Billy Graham Evangelical Association. It is likely within God’s design that everything happened the way it did. I trust him to use it for the salvation of souls, and for his glory. |
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