Who's Going to Gibson's The Passion of the Christ?

[D.R.R.]

My question is stated in the title of this thread.

[spl_cadet]

I am, March 9th with a Baptist friend of mine and her youth group

[Piebald]

Who isn't going would be a better question 'round here.

[Amazing Rando]

Who isn't going would be a better question 'round here.

Hehe. This is like the fourth thread to be asking this question in the last three days!

[Xavier]

Hehe. This is like the fourth thread to be asking this question in the last three days!

I'm going.. Tomorrow...

Ash Wednesday Service --> FOOD --> Passion...

[Amazing Rando]

I'm going.. Tomorrow...

Ash Wednesday Service --> FOOD --> Passion...

No spoilin'! I'll be there on Friday.

[Rubia Warren]

I am going tomorrow if I can get in.

[Trinitarian]

I'm going during the first three days.

[Dave G]

I'm going in the morning.

[Reader]

Who isn't going would be a better question 'round here.

Not me.

I believe the making of the film breaks God's 2nd commandment.

I believe there is no way a film can betray the spiritual significance of Christ's death and resurrection.

I doubt the film will be true to the Scriptural account without human exaggeration or omission.

I believe the film will be entertaining and enjoyed only by sadists and masochists, and genuine, unsuspecting Christians will be shocked by the inordinate amount of sensationalism, blood, and gore.

I do not believe the film will be used by the Holy Spirit of God to save a single soul from Hell.

I expect Protestant Christians, who do expose themselves to this blatant (Roman Catholic) money-making effort will go to great lengths to explain their sin of spiritual infidelity and work very hard to cover up their repulsion of what will be forever placed within their psyche and memory.

I believe it is a sick endeavor, sponsored by the devil, and it will not bear fruit to the glory of Jesus Christ, but will only distract from the true and Scriptural Gospel of our Savior.

There. I said it.

So crucify me, too, if you have such love of brutality in you.

[TWells]

Ive going to the 5:00 PM showing tomorrow.

I believe the making of the film breaks God's 2nd commandment.

In what way does it break the 2nd comandment?

I believe there is no way a film can betray the spiritual significance of Christ's death and resurrection.

So? I dont believe even scripture can totally explain the spiritual signifigance of the Cross.

I believe the film will be entertaining and enjoyed only by sadists and masochists, and genuine, unsuspecting Christians will be shocked by the inordinate amount of sensationalism, blood, and gore.

So if I find the film spiritually edifying then im not a "genuine" Christian? Why is portraying the agony our Lord went through for us sadistic? Christians today have been completely desensitized to everything, including the massive pain and suffering Christ went through. It wasnt pretty, our God was beaten, tortured, humiliated then nailed to a tree completley naked for all to see and mock. The Passion is the model for our Christian life, its the symbol in which we model our own bearing of the Cross. What's wrong with being reminded of that?

I do not believe the film will be used by the Holy Spirit of God to save a single soul from Hell.

Of course not, how can it? It doesnt adhere to Reader's own personal orthodoxy.

I expect Protestant Christians, who do expose themselves to this blatant (Roman Catholic) money-making effort

Reader, do you actually have any idea of what your talking about? Gibson invested 30 million of his own money into making the film and until recently no one in their right mind believed the movie would be anything other than a total flop. How can you so flippantly sit in judgement of someone else??

will go to great lengths to explain their sin of spiritual infidelity and work very hard to cover up their repulsion of what will be forever placed within their psyche and memory.

lol, ok.

I believe it is a sick endeavor, sponsored by the devil, and it will not bear fruit to the glory of Jesus Christ, but will only distract from the true and Scriptural Gospel of our Savior.

Where do you come up with this stuff?

So crucify me, too, if you have such love of brutality in you

gee....your such a martyr.

Travis

[Piebald]

I believe the making of the film breaks God's 2nd commandment

Should people begin bowing down before the actor who plays Jesus, you might have a point

there is no way a film can betray the spiritual significance of Christ's death and resurrection

Do you mean portray? Well that is true -- of course, John said there was no way that books could say all that Jesus said and did. Does that mean the Gospel of John is a fruitless endeavor?

I doubt the film will be true to the Scriptural account without human exaggeration or omission

I don't know about exaggerations, but the Gospels contain omissions due to the particular writer's agenda. Does that mean the Gospels are worthless and should not be read? And no, I'm not equating Mel's movie with spirit-inspired Gospels, but your criticisms of the movie could equally be laid onto what the Holy Spirit has already deemed legit, canon.

I believe the film will be entertaining and enjoyed only by sadists and masochists

Then take it up with God, who chose this brutal and bloody practice as the way he would save and enlighten the entire world. If it is wrong for people to watch the movie and be moved by the intense trauma Christ suffered, then how much more wrong is it for someone to produce such intense trauma for the sake of spiritual salvation/growth in the first place?

unsuspecting Christians will be shocked by the inordinate amount of sensationalism, blood, and gore.

I don't know what you mean about sensationalism -- but as for shocked by the blood and gore? I say good. People wear these lily-white crucifixes where Jesus wears an expression of peace and calmness, as he dies slowly in arguably the most brutal and humiliating fashion the ancient world had to offer.

Understanding the monsterous sacirifice Jesus endured on that thing might make people have second thoughts before they put it on decorative cakes or bake cookies shaped like it. The cross is a serious thing, the crucifix is a million times as serious. People ought to have a sense of the terrible pain and humiliation Christ endured on it.

I expect Protestant Christians, who do expose themselves to this blatant (Roman Catholic) money-making effort will go to great lengths to explain their sin of spiritual infidelity and work very hard to cover up their repulsion of what will be forever placed within their psyche and memory

So far the only "Evil Catholic Conspiracy's" plan for the movie has been to place some innocent/innocous Catholic traditions into the film (e.g.the woman who wipes the face of Christ), as far as I know. I'll be sure to let you know if there is a chorus line of dancing Popes in it or something.

I believe it is a sick endeavor, sponsored by the devil, and it will not bear fruit to the glory of Jesus Christ, but will only distract from the true and Scriptural Gospel of our Savior.

There. I said it.


So crucify me, too, if you have such love of brutality in you.

Well, I believe you're welcome to your opinion, as absurd as I consider it.



As for love of brutality - that's certainly not evidenced by wanting to see this film. If you have a problem with people viewing a scourging and crucifixion for spiritual purposes, then you had better take it up with Him who chose to use this practice as the vehicle for Salvation for all living people.

I do not believe the film will be used by the Holy Spirit of God to save a single soul from Hell

I don't think this is plausible at all.

For one thing, the Holy Spirit uses all kinds of things to witness internally to a person.



And for another - the Holy Spirit has been using the real insanely brutal scourging of Christ and monsterous physical atrocity of the crucifixion to save people for 2,000 years.

[Lilith]

Quite profound Reader. I am in agreement but I still want to go. Just to see the
point of view of Mel Gibson hisself. He's Catholic you know. (duh)

[D.R.R.]

Quite profound Reader. I am in agreement but I still want to go. Just to see the
point of view of Mel Gibson hisself. He's Catholic you know. (duh)

Catholicism is not a point of view.

[rocketman]

Catholicism is not a point of view.

It's a way of life and the road to truth

All light-heartedness aside, I am looking forward to seeing Mel's handiwork.

What I find interesting is that a lot of the critics who enjoyed Kill Bill Vol. 1 by Quentin Tarentino as "provocative" and "fresh" are the same ones calling the Passion "sadistic". I think it's more an attempt to discredit the movie than anything else.

While the movie will certainly have Catholic overtones (not that I find anything wrong with that), Mel himself has said that it is for all Christians to meditate and remember the immense suffering Our Lord went through, solely for us. In today's world, we tend to lose sight of that as we are highly desensitized to violence. It even shows up in our Catholic Churches...Jesus is no longer depicted as brutalized on the Cross the way He used to be, but is clean, and even in some ways, triumphant. He certainly was triumphant, but let's face it, the manner of His death was not clean, it was brutal, and at the moment it certainly didn't seem triumphant to His disciples and Apostles. I think that in today's very cushy world, we all need to be reminded of that. We had to kill our own God so that we might be saved.