[Quix]

I can understand the feeling.

In my childhood--about 7 or 8 years old, as I recall. I was traumatized. I somehow started pondering THE CROSS and THE CRUCIFIXION. And I was literally histerical that Christ would have suffered such pain for me. It was beyond what I could comprehend or handle. I pestered my mother relentlessly with questions about it trying to get some peace that Christ didn't really suffer such pain for me. Mother finally had to send me away in her typically harsh way.

And, I still cringe somewhat at vivid depictions--whether in fiction or historical films or sometimes even in text. I don't like violent movies. I get tooooo 'into' them.

I expected THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST to be devastatingly impactful on me. I didn't go see it eagerly with cheery expectation.

But I did decide
that GIVEN
JESUS' LOVE
sufficient to SUFFER that PAIN,
the least I could do
as a believer and follower,
was to SEE
the BEST DEPICTION
of that SUFFERING,
the BEST DEPICTION
of that SACRIFICE
AVAILABLE for our era.

So I went. I was blessed.

It was not the . . . dramatically, overwhelmingly life transforming event for me that I thought it might be. I think that is probably because The Lord has led me through quite a desert of extensive suffering the last 3+ years and I'm still not out of it. So, a lot of the drama that comes from vicarious identification with the sufferings of Christ HE HAS BEEN POURING INTO ME with great intensity the last 3+ years. There seems to have been few heart-strings left to pull very dramatically in that ball park by such a historical film--regardless of how accurate or well done.

But it was moving. It did touch my heart and spirit. In a sense, it was life-changing. It did deepen my AWE, adoration, respect, reverence, thanks to my Lord for what He endured. It deepened my Love, my compassion, my empathy for Him; my identification with Him.

That's quite a lot of Biblical, spiritual benefit, fruitfulness for something greeted with such hostility by the author of this post.

For my money and from my 57 years of religioius/spiritual experience, it just shows that the author of this post is quite over full of himself and quite over full of his 'special' counting of all the letters of the law according to his construction on reality. He probably needs to get a life.

Better yet, he likely needs to get a real, authentic, heart-felt, humble, broken relationship with the Heart of Jesus The Messiah, Our Risen Lord.

Then he would have no rocks to throw at the movie, only cheers for what Holy Spirit is doing with this movie.

[Qwinn]

I don't know if anyone pointed this out - I didn't bother going through all 6 pages, just the first page, and no one seemed to notice this:

"The script for The Passion of Christ not only adds things that didn't occur in the Bible, it cuts out other things that did. The most widely known example of this being the important declaration, "His blood be on us and on our children." (Matthew 27:25)

So, basically, this article slams Gibson for having enough sympathy toward Jewish concerns to leave this line out. Man. Neither the Left nor Jews gave him a -single- ounce of credit for leaving it out, not -once-, but the author slams him for it as if he had no clue as to WHY? Un-freakin-believable.

Qwinn