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"The Passion of the Christ"
capecod
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Who plans on seeing this movie when it is released this week? My wife and I are looking forward to seeing it this weekend.
John
My Prayer: Dear Lord, Please let me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.........
John
My Prayer: Dear Lord, Please let me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.........
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"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
To whom much is given, much is expected.
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
One Jewish clergy said it made Jews look bad. Jews were in charge of what happened to Christ in the first century AD. It wasn't just the Jews who put Christ on the cross it was all of mankind, Jew and Gentile alike. Look what we Gentiles have done with Christ. We've kicked him out of our schools, continue to replace lies for the truth in his Word, and curse his name. We should be just as ashamed as our Jewish brothers for we now are in charge of what we will do with Christ. I think this movie makes that all clear.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
How you doin'!
John
My Prayer: Dear Lord, Please let me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.........
I might not always tell you the truth, but I will never lie to you!
Gibson is awesome. Patriot, We Were Soldiers, and Signs were all awesome movies.. and this one looks promising.
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Also not much of a Gibson fan, since Lethal Weapon, but will see this one. I don't expect much. The pope said, "it is as it was," and I am pretty sure he is old enough to have been there....[}:)]
He Dog
There were actually reasons why I went to the theATRe to see those two films.
I went to see "signs" in the theatre, because I live in Bucks County, and the movie supposedly takes place in Bucks County. I was curious to see how the Bucks county folks in the theatre would react to it.
I saw "the patriot" in the theatre because I had a guest pass to a special screening.
I am going to go see the passion in the theatre cause it seems to be something I would want to see on a big screen.
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
He Dog
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, not liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin, 1785
I Hope I can read fast enough.
It's not in english you know?
Trinity +++
"Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."(Proverbs 22:6)
I read an interesting comment in the paper today written by Kenneth L. Woodward (author and contrubuting editor to "Newsweek"). "More than sixty years ago, H. Richard Neibuhr summarized the creed of American Christianity that has triumphantly come to pass: 'A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.' Despite its muscular excess, Mr. Gibson's symbol-laden film is a welcome repudiation of all that."
I'm praying that God would somehow use it to wake people up to the extent that God loves us undiserving people.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin
Case in point.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
Blackie is right on the mark here. God designed his own fate on the cross. Not the Jews.
I guess a lady had a heart attack and passed away while watching a morning screening. I'm sure I would too if I watched all the gore that is supposedly in this movie.
Yeah and I remember a woman that had a heart attack and died watching Mary Poppins.[:D]
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, not liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin, 1785
"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet."
I guess a lady had a heart attack and passed away while watching a morning screening. I'm sure I would too if I watched all the gore that is supposedly in this movie.
Case in point.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
JOIN PETA! (PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS) I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to have a salad and spring water!
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
Roboman--
Hint: The "Sensitive and in-touch-with-his-feminine-side 80's man" image is out. Women don't dig the limp-wristed man-girl types anymore.
He, also said do not go see it because of what a critic says ... see it for yourself!
Ken Gibbs
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quote:I'm sure I would too if I watched all the gore that is supposedly in this movie.
Roboman--
Hint: The "Sensitive and in-touch-with-his-feminine-side 80's man" image is out. Women don't dig the limp-wristed man-girl types anymore.
I can handle my share of blood and guts but after seeing that one image it made my stomach turn. I'll admit it, I don't care. Maybe women will like my honest side [;)].
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
If any one has read the bible, the Jews did not crucify Jeasus, the High Priest, Caiaphus, did. The and the other Jewish leaders were afraid of losing power and convinced the romans to do their dirty work. Of course this was all within Gods plan.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
How you doin'!
If one doubts for a minute that there is a broad and intense effort in this country and world to oppress Christianity, or religion in general, in favor of secularism, then they are simply ignoring the facts.
The environment of disparaging and divisive comments that are endless in their attacks on this movie are merely another extension of that.
It has been said by many who have seen this movie that they expect that viewing it alone will stir many to examine their own lives and accept Jesus into their hearts.
You can be assured that the secularists DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN! So you can see the reason for much of the controversy. THEY ARE SCARED OF THE POWER OF THE TRUTH that this movie reveals!
Thank you Mr. Gibson for your honest and realistic testimony.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
quote:I'm sure I would too if I watched all the gore that is supposedly in this movie.
Roboman--
Hint: The "Sensitive and in-touch-with-his-feminine-side 80's man" image is out. Women don't dig the limp-wristed man-girl types anymore.
LOL! [:p][:D][:D][:o)][:D]
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Bruce
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, not liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin, 1785
I must say that "The Passion of the Christ" is very graphic and very real except for a couple things that might be more rooted in Catholic tradition than in the Bible. But I can handle that.
I still say that the best part of the book was left out of the movie - the book does not end with the crucifixion and the empty tomb scene is really pretty weak. I wonder of Mr. Gibson goes more for gore than victory over death and hope and GRACE!
The movie does away with the notion of innocent, cleaned up, politically correct crucifixion, which is good ... but I wonder if it is just too much blood and guts - graphic depiction of a 12 hour portion of Jesus's life.
In spite of all the hype and stories about how moving the movie is, I did not see anybody crying ... I'm a pretty sensitive guy (at least I think so!), but I think I was more numbed by the whole thing than I was moved to tears. I shed more tears in church every week than I did at the movie!
True, it will make a lot of money. True, it will touch a lot of people and maybe the folks who are not otherwise hearing the most important message that God loves us and he loves us a lot!. True, it is not for kids. True, you should probably go see it and take some friends. But it is not the greatest movie ever made ... other movies/videos about Jesus will have more impact. I would suggest: 1.) the "Visual Bible" which is the whole book of Mathew word for word nothing added and nothing left out and 2.) the "Jesus" video.
It must be right, or we wouldn't do it this way!
To err is human, to moo is bovine.
I think people have a hard time with it because it touches their conscience. The beatings and the crucifiction are hard to deal with because most people going to the movie feel some degree of responsibility for that torture. It's hard to watch because it really happened and I bear some of that responsibility.
However, I've seen worse. Bodies hanging. Heck, I ate a Wendy's chili-cheeseburger after fingerprinting a corpse and observing someone filet it on a piece of butcher paper during an autopsy. I guess working on the kill-floor of a packing plant will desensitize you a bit.