The Passion of the Christ
The Passion of the Christ is an admirable film yet very hard film for most Christian to watch without crying and having antipathy. The film brings morality seeing what Christ had done for us and what many Christians have not done for him. The Passion of the Christ central point is the vicious acts that prepared Jesus for his death. The Passion of the Christ does not display much love showed for Christ, but instead showed how evil assails the King Jesus and not elevate King Jesus like we ought too. The film commence on the prophecy, “but he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
The Garden of Gethsemane is the place we see as the movie first bring into being. As we watch this dark scene take place we can assume Jesus is praying or that Jesus is talking to himself encouraging himself to face what is about to happen. Jesus is aware of everything that is going to take place, but we have to realize that he is in human form now. We as humans can in spite of everything develop agony as we walk with Christ. In the Passion of the Christ sorrow is seen on Jesus’s face even though Jesus is also Devine. Jesus then finishes his invocations then goes to his disciples to find them sleeping. Jesus wakes Peter, James, and John and advise them to guard and invoke prayers so they could possibly avoid falling into persuasion. Judas is seen betraying Jesus just as he said one would. The film demonstrates Judas earning silver coins from the chief priest and religious rulers. Judas then completes the job he was paid for by leading the men to Jesus. As Judas and the men arrive Judas kisses Jesus as ...
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...angel removed the stone in from of the tomb. The men present was fearful as the angel spoke to the women. As they began to look for Jesus, Jesus meet them and summon them to tell those in Galilee that they would see him. Jesus ascended into heaven. There are much detail that are left out, but I wanted to cover the most vital points that lead up to the death of Jesus. The main point is that Jesus chose to do this for his people. The crucifixion is the evidence that Jesus is indeed the Messiah. The four Gospels agree that Jesus was crucified as a criminal against the Roman state (Summers, 1965)
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...ude the controversial issues about Jesus. Andreas seemed to have been on the border line with following Jesus and believing he was some guy that was telling lies around the cities. It’s not until Jesus is up for execution when he becomes a follower of Christ. Once Andreas returns, he learns that Barabbas and two zealots were arrested. Barabbas is Andreas’ friend, so he decides to propose ways of rebellion to the Romans. Pilate decides to have a meeting with Andreas about his proposal leads. Pilate manipulates Andreas’s proposal by giving the people of Jerusalem the decision which criminal to keep from execution: Barabbas or Jesus. In the end the people chose Barabbas which meant Jesus, including two other criminals, was sent to be crucified. The story concludes with Andreas recognizing Jesus’ power after so many of the people in his life have been changed by Jesus.
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The Lamentation, or Pietà, is a common Christian narrative that depicts Jesus Christ’s family mourning over his body after he has been crucified. Many artists choose to interpret it and paint it in their own way, which is why I decided to use it for this paper. The Pietà, I found, is more of a detailed version of the Lamentation that is mainly only Mary mourning over her son. In general, the Lamentation includes Mary and other religious figures—“full” Lamentations include The Three Marys, John the Apostle, Joseph, and various other people such as angels and donor portraits. As time went on, some scenes became continuous narratives, showing other subjects adjacent to the Lamentation in the Passion of Christ. Meanwhile, others expanded in terms of their scenery and other specific details.
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"The Passion of the Christ" by Mel Gibson, recounts the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, portraying his arrest, trial, crucifixion and death. One of the most popular religious movies in modern times, it therefore becomes susceptible to criticism. Although the film is based upon the stories within the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, there are many exaggerations and non-biblical elements present in the movie. This is not unexpected, since it is a movie, but the vivid detail of the brutality in the movie as well as the Anti-Semitic theme are the most publicly criticized elements of the movie. The Passion emphasizes the brutality Jesus endured to give himself for his people, but at the same time in the movie the Jews are the ones that cry for his death. During several scenes of The Passion of the Christ, there are elements such as characters, themes, and motifs that are not found within the gospels, but are in the movie to add more dramatic elements.
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...ds to film, the religious stories surrounding the scenario are more than likely far less exciting and more straightforward than what is portrayed. The depiction of Christianity in a melodramatic fashion aims to keep people interested but it is not taken into consideration that the events that had taken place in Christian texts such as the bible could be equally interesting and exciting if they are depicted accurately within the story being narrated. Movies are over eager when they get a religious topic to work with and place it unnecessarily over the top, so that the religious undertones and lessons are almost lost and to get them, one must pay extremely close attention.
The movie, Jesus of Nazareth, showed the Paschal Mystery in a secular and spiritual way, that everyone could understand. It went into great depth on almost every topic in the Gospels and historically with people like Pontius Pilate and Caiaphas. The Paschal Mystery is a very important to the Catholic religion as it is what differentiates us from other religions, especially Judaism. The fact that God joined us in human form, in the Incarnation, is amazing and shows the character of God, that He is loving and forgiving. Although the death of Jesus was horrible, it gave us our salvation and saved us from sin.
To conclude, the movie is filled with hatred, evil, faith, doubt, love and so on. While watching the movie, we see how the director has involved transcendence, metaphors, and striking images that the viewer is drawn to. Helen had something to accomplish with Matthew, which is the need for redemption and the sacraments of the Christian church. We notice the religious people and there actions throughout the movie. It shows us how different faith is to each individual and the way they see the Old and New Testament. Surprisingly, many follow the Old Testament but do not chare any thoughts with the New Testament.
In the days of Christ’s life on this earth, believers did not have access to the Bible in its entirety as we know and are familiar with today. Believers in this ancient time period only had access to the Old Testament. However, through their access to the Old Testament, believers were provided a foundation for New Testament times. This foundation provided New Testament believers with the Lord’s established principles of right and wrong they were expected to follow. In addition, the Old Testament is overflowing with accounts of people whose lives exemplified the future life of Christ on this earth. These pictures allowed the Israelite nation to begin to have an understanding of why Christ needed to come as their Messiah and the work He needed to do on earth. Finally, there are common themes that are interwoven throughout the entire Old Testament. Three of these themes: transgression, redemption, and consummation point to the purpose of Christ’s atoning death on the cross. These themes portray God’s work both in the lives of Old Testament believers, but they also foreshadow God’s desire and plan for believers in New Testament times and beyond.
In my opinion it's better to see a film without hearing too much about it beforehand. With The Passion I was expecting to be bored for the first hour while seeing Christ preaching to his followers and healing the sick but Gibson didn't tire us all with that, he filmed it in an interesting way which pleasantly surprised me. In fact I was very impressed with the opening scenes. Instead of showing us Jesus' life from birth to death Gibson set the film at the last two days of his life while having the odd flashback to Jesus' earlier days.
Many stories in the Bible are incredible, but one of the most incredible and important would be the story of Joseph. Being viewed by many Christian and non-Christian families, have inspired many and taught many valuable lessons along the way. One would be the fact that it teaches moral values that will most likely be carried with the viewer for the rest of their life. Faith, patience, and trust have been presented in this movie, which are some of the morals that are being taught. What makes this movie a Christian film, is not just its incredible values presented, but also the fact that it is an incredible Christian movie that is enjoyed by all who watch it.