My review of the Passion

I didn't hear any hard rock music. I hate the stuff!

Diane

 

I had a medium bag of popcorn and a large Coke. I ate the popcorn before the movie started, and drank the Coke throughout. One of the staff members I work with got a little sick before the movie started (she was anxious, I think), but there wasn't anything "sickening" about it. We went at noon, and didn't have time for lunch. It wasn't that much of an issue for me.

 

First o all, I will address the physical grossness of this movie. As the Bible states, he ws whipped, tortured, given a "crown of thorns, had to carry a "full" wooden cross, while the 2 other people sent to be crusified had to only carry the top plank of the cross, what more do you want from a saviour but some one that would do "anything" to help you and save you from CERTAIN anguish and torment.

 

As far as the grotesqueness, if in fact you are a believer in Christ and have read the Biblical account of what happened, how can you not agree to this? I was "saved" at the tender age of 7, yes 7 years old. I am more than 20 years older than that. I have always been able to picture things as people tell them or as I read them, thanks to a very vivid imagination, but the reality that this picture brought home to me, the TRUTH of the suffering that Jesus and His Father did for me....OH MY GOODNESS just tells of the unending, the everlasting, and unabounding love that the God Almighty has for us.

 

In the Bible we "watched" Jesus grow up, we read about His works, and everything that Jesus, talked about, the miricales He preformed, this movie shows some of those as "flash-backs". How can you "NOT" relate to this movie. It has spurred me forward in my faith and my walk and has showed me what a shild I am in my walk. It had so many meanings for me. I can't help but wonder were you closed to another thought about the LIFE and DEATH of our Saviour that this might be different? According to the scriptures (KING JAMES) that was read to me, this is accurate. Even the final words of Christ "in the movie..it is accomplished..to the King James version..It is Finished. How is it sooo different? He died for us. He suffered a horrible and cruel death... All to prove to us that He did it for us! He was the onlky oine that could. HE DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS HIS FATHERS WILL> IT WAS THE ONLY WAY"

 

This movie shouldn't be titled that...it should be titled "The Passion of My People" I don't see how as a believer you cannot be renewed and passionate(is there a stronger word than that) about "Christianity", not religion. But true in your heart God is my Saviour Christianity

 

Shawna, to me, It Is Accomplished is the same as 'the plan for salvation is finished'.. the job is done. I had NO problem with that wording. I've heard great men of God use that term too.

I'm very disappointed in some of the members I respect who have such closed minds about the ability of God to use this movie. My God can use many means.... songs, movies, the Bible and, yes, even me.

Diane

 

Here is a different view of the "Passion".

http://www.seekgod.ca/gibson.htm

 

Bro. Adam, it has actually hurt my heart to read the ugly remarks made by people who have not even viewed this movie and remarks insinuating that those of us who have been touched by this film are worshiping the film or a false god.

MY God is very capable of using any media and any means to reach the lost. Those who think otherwise limit God's powers.

Again, I saw nothing Catholic about this film. Our Minister of Youth asked me had I ever heard of Veronica's Veil and pointed that very short scene out to me but we had a very long conversation last night and Bro. Jon said he didn't see any references to the station of the cross or Catholicism endorsements.

If I had been in the crowd and a follower of Christ, I would have wiped his brow, offered him a drink, wiped up his blood. If I were the mother of Christ, I would have followed his every step, kissed his feet on the cross and held his body when it was taken from the cross. Mary was not glorified in any way in this film.

Diane

 

Diane, you seem to miss the point that the movie does not preach the WHOLE GOSPEL.

It is fine as far as it goes...but it does not talk of several issues VITAL to salvation.

God uses the Gospel to save people...and this movie is not the Gospel...it is a part, but not the whole.

 

It's a FILM! It's not a sermon. It's Gibson's attempt to show what Jesus did for Gibson and me. I've seen nothing claiming this is the be all and end all of scripture... just the last 24 hours in the life of our Lord.

Diane

 

Yes, I agree.....and that's my point. It is a film depicting His death...but it is not the whole Gospel, and thus people CAN NOT be saved through watching it.

 

I watched the movie last night, and leaving the theater, I was speechless. No matter what anyone says, this movie greatly impacted my life. I was given a new awareness of the kind of death that Jesus died for me. Jesus didn't die an easy death, they didn't slap him on the wrist and say "Ok Mr. bad man...now hop up on this cross and hang here for a while until you die." No, they beat him until he was an unrecognizable mass of blood and flesh. They drove nails through his hands and feet. They spit on him and pulled his beard out to humiliate him. Why should we clean it up for the "niceness" of it. I realized that my own picture of the crucifixion was a "PG" picture...maybe a little blood on his temple, and a little blood around where the nails were. I truly never thought of the blood matting his hair, his eyes swollen shut from beatings, blood running down the cross into the rocky ground below. I had to cover my mouth to keep from crying out. I, for one, did not come away the same.

Grace stands quietly, ready for those who will bash her for admitting that she needed a visual reminder of the suffering her Savior went through to purchase her redemption.

 

Amen, Grace.

Diane

 

I praise God for that Brother Adam.

 

I think we'll see a lot of pew warmers rethink their standing with our Lord and a lot of non attending members back in church if even for a few weeks.

Diane