Have you seen "The Passion of the Christ" in the theater or DVD?

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I just haven’t had the time. My Bible study watched it today and will start the 6 week curriculum that goes with the movie.
 
By the way. this film netted 500 million dollars. Did Gibson give this to the poor? If not, he is on up on Judas, who only made 30 pieces of silver. images/buttons_cad/quote.gif

Okay, I’ll bite. Please check out Amy Wellborn’s blog for an article talking about a SMALL portion of Mr. Gibson’s charitable works. This man BELIEVES what he preaches. It is fairly well known and substantiated that his charitable donations number in the multi-million dollar range (and that’s just to ONE charity). Keep in mind, he never talks about his donations, but the recipients of his generosity do.

A gentle reminder about the “influences” behind this film. Mr. Gibson will tell you that in addition to the Gospel accounts, he was strongly influenced by Sr. Anne Emmerich (mystic, stygmatic possibly - not super clear on her details). Her book is where some of the artistic license comes from (e.g. the wiping up of our Lord’s blood after the scourging - a scene which still gives me chills).

And finally, the reception of this film by Protestants was overwhelmingly positive (except in extreme cases like notoriously anti-Catholic people such as Dave Hunt). One Protestant minister was quoted as saying “this movie has put Jesus back on our cross.” Can’t do much better than that.
 
My central question would be: how much of the film was given over to the gloroius Resurrection and triumph of Jesus,which is the essence of the Christian faith?

I saw one article in which Gibson said his wife could not go to heaven as she was not a Catholic. Strange type of evangelist!
 
I have seen in theater when it first came out. I loved it,and cried the entire time. My favorite part was when they had the table scene. Everybody should watch it. i am even bringing it to our church’s Confirmation year 2 retreat. My friends and I all want to see it again!

God Bless
JMJ
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I watched it on DVD. I had tears in places as the movie did such a wonderful job putting real substance behind “Jesus died for all of our sins” - I have a whole new appreciation for that now. I thin kI went from an intellectual understanding of that to completely internalizing it and feeling it emotionally.

At the end of the movie my first comment was “Wow - Jesus did that for US???”

That is infinite love isn’t it?
 
I saw it in a theater 2 weeks after it came out. For Christmas I bought a DVD for some of my grand children. They will have it to view later.
 
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