I also think his research for THE CHRIST film humbled him and greatly challenged him to become a better person.
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You couldn’t research and make a movie like that one without it doing something to bring you closer to God than you already are...I have that movie on DVD and watch it once a month...in this world right now you have to have something like this to ‘ground’ you or you would be killing all of the Government...
Great points.
I forced myself to watch it as the minimum just due for what Christ suffered.
However, I think it was around age 7-10, I experienced an extremely *intense* spiritual connection-identification—something.
I grokked at a much deeper-than-average level the extreme suffering of Yeshua. I became virtually hysterical. It was as though I couldn’t stand to be in my own skin; to be alive; to contemplate such horrific suffering FOR ME. I was beside myself and quite on the edge of utter hysteria.
I think mother finally tried to calm me by saying that MAYBE God helped Jesus bear it all somehow.
So watching THE CHRIST was extremely difficult for me. I don’t watch most such. I feel the pain too intensely; however vicariously.