The Passion Of Christ, incorrectly portraying Jesus

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I just watched the Passion of the Christ it was a good movie for the most part. One thing that I did not like is it seemed to have portrayed Jesus as fearful of satan. I think this is wrong, because Jesus is also God and God would not fear the devil then and does not now because he has nothing over him.
 
I am refering to the scene when he was in the garden praying and the devil was tempting him. It just seemed that satan filled him with fear.
 
To me, it seems like it´s made to show how Christ Our Lord was in fear because of the pain and suffering which He knew was coming. He wasn´t afraid of the Devil himself, but rather what He knew was ahead of Him.
 
To me, it seems like it´s made to show how Christ Our Lord was in fear because of the pain and suffering which He knew was coming. He wasn´t afraid of the Devil himself, but rather what He knew was ahead of Him.
Yes. Besides, fear is the sense in our body of a situation. It is not a moral act. Our Lord would have felt what any of us feel. Any of us, facing what he was facing, would have felt fear.

As they often say, the courageous are not those who do not feel fear, but rather those who feel feel fear and remain steadfast in virtue, anyway.
 
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It’s called the Agony in the Garden for a reason. Christ’s fully human nature was about to experience some of the worst pain imaginable. I never interpreted the scene as Christ fearing Satan but rather Christ understanding the pain he was about to endure.
 
Jesus was human. He knew exactly what the coming torture and death would feel like, every blow, every pain. The Romans were experts at torture. Because of His omnicence, Christ knew exactly what was coming.

In the Garden, Christ experienced Hematidrosis. From Wiki:


occurring under conditions of extreme physical or emotional stress.[4] Severe mental anxiety activates the sympathetic nervous system to invoke the stress- Fight-or-flight response to such a degree as to cause hemorrhage of the vessels supplying the sweat glands.[5] It has been suggested that acute fear and extreme stress can cause hematidrosis.[6]

Remember, Christ experienced everything that you and I experience except for sin. He knew fear, he knew hunger, he knew pain, he knew loss, he knew joy and he laughed at jokes. Fear is not a sin, it is part of being human.
 
In his humanity He experienced both fear and love. And love triumphed over fear.
 
In the end it is film.
If you want to know how it really is, read the Gospels.
Film is good for bringing it to life but in a real sense one could argue it is apocryphal seeing as they always will add or subtract something from the Gospel.
 
In addition to what others have already pointed out about Jesus’ humanity, remember also that in that scene Jesus overcomes the intense distress, rises up to his feet, and crushes that snake/serpent under his heel. 🙂
 
I saw the movie a few times, and not once did I think Jesus was affraid of Satan. I knew his reaction was simply having fear/anguish for what was about to happen to him…
 
I thought that when he stomped on the head of the snake that that was anything but fear of Satan.
 
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