The Gospel of Mel Gibson

The Record of Hackensack ^ | 03.14.04 | Mike Kelly

[MosesKnows]

Too bad Mel Gibson missed this.

I believe Mike Kelly missed it.

The film was advertised as a depiction of the LAST twelve hours of the life of Jesus not the life of Jesus. Although I haven't seen it, I have been led to believe that is exactly what it did.

[joebuck]

Mr. Kelly's only critisizm seems to be that Mel didn't make the movie Kelly wanted him to make.

[joebuck]

critisizm = criticism (Sorry bout the typo-I just washed my keyboard and I can't do a THING with it.)

[17th Miss Regt]

He sure harped on the alleged anti-semitism of the movie. Michael Medved described these reviewers excellently. "They sat through the whole movie and only saw 2% of it."

[Mamzelle]

Kelly's gripe is that Gibson made the movie, and has made a masterpiece. Wonder if it's hit $300M domestic, yet?

[kittymyrib]

This whine is so appropriate on the day that the numbers will be posted showing domestic ticket sales topping $300,000,000 yesterday...four weeks since it was released. And the UK opens this weekend. "Many are called, but few are chosen," Jesus reminds us, so we should not be surprised that the spiritually blind cannot see.

[Just mythoughts]

"Spare me. At the end of all this silver-screen blood-letting, one sad fact becomes apparent: We learn a lot about how Jesus died, but we learn almost nothing of how he lived and the words he spoke that are so meaningful even among non-believers. We see Jesus' last agonizing hours. What about the rest of his life?"


Yeah boy, you think there was screaming about the "death", all .ell would have broken out if they did a movie telling the "life" of Christ. Now how many time did Christ read the minds of those who sought to KILL him and man all those DIRECT words to the "RELIGIOUS" elites.

[hellinahandcart]

With his movie, "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson has committed Hollywood's most unforgivable sin. He made a boring movie.

That's a sin? From the Hollywood offerings out there lately, I thought it must be a virtue.

[hellinahandcart]

Interesting...Kelly's first clue that the film was about Christ's crucifixion should have been the title.

I think he's clueless, Judith Anne. Look at the title he gave his own article--

"The Good News of Mel Gibson"

hee hee...

[VRWC_minion]

I guess he'll have to do a prequel

[Elsie]

This is precisely the sort of narrow storytelling....

 

Narrow, huh???.......

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Acts 3:12-18
 12.  When Peter saw this, he said to them: "Men of Israel, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
 13.  The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.
 14.  You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
 15.  You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
 16.  By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has given this complete healing to him, as you can all see.
 17.  "Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
 18.  But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ  would suffer.

 

Acts 5:27-33
 27.  Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.
 28.  "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood."
 29.  Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!
 30.  The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.
 31.  God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
 32.  We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
 33.  When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

 

Acts 7:51-60
 51.  "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!
 52.  Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him--
 53.  you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it."
 54.  When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
 55.  But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
 56.  "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
 57.  At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him,
 58.  dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
 59.  While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
 60.  Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.   (*)

 

Acts 9:22-24
 22.  Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.
 23.  After many days had gone by, the Jews conspired to kill him,
 24.  but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him.  (*)

 

Acts 9:29
 He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him. (*)

 

Acts 10:34-40
 34.  Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism
 35.  but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.
 36.  You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
 37.  You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached--
 38.  how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him. 
 39.  "We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,
 40.  but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.

 

Acts 23:6-14
 6.  Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead."
 7.  When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
 8.  (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
 9.  There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. "We find nothing wrong with this man," they said. "What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"
 10.  The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.
 11.  The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."
 12.  The next morning the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
 13.  More than forty men were involved in this plot.
 14.  They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
15.  Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here."
 16.  But when the son of Paul's sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
 17.  Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, "Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him."
 18.  So he took him to the commander.   The centurion said, "Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you."
 19.  The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, "What is it you want to tell me?"
 20.  He said: "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him.
 21.  Don't give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request." (*)

 

Acts 25:1-3
 1.  Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
 2.  where the chief priests and Jewish leaders appeared before him and presented the charges against Paul.
 3.  They urgently requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way. (*)

 

Acts 25:10-11
10.  Paul answered: "I am now standing before Caesar's court, where I ought to be tried. I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.
 11.  If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!"  (*)

 

Acts 26:21
 That is why the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me. (*)

 

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
 14.  For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews,
 15.  who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men
 16.  in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.

(*always wanting to KILL someone...)

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I guess these detractors will REALLY be upset

when Mel films the history of the early church!!!

[Elsie]

Acts 5:33 When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

How did I miss highlighting this?

Acts 5:33 When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

[Sloth]

Gibson denies this was his intention. So do some Christian leaders who have a nasty habit of calling critics of "The Passion" anti-Christian. Maybe they missed that line about loving your neighbor.

Loving someone necessitates lying about their agenda?

Besides showing the priests only as evil,

An outright lie.

*YAWN* Another Passion hatchet job, and not a particularly good one at that.

[Sloth]

Wonder if it's hit $300M domestic, yet?

It will today.

[BibChr]

What's truly scary is people like this, who are happy exposing their Stygian ignorance and stupidity in public, who in fact can make a living off it if, and clearly expect not to be held accountable for it.

Dan

[beckett]

Meanwhile the film passed $300 million today....

It's very instructive to witness the wholesale misunderstanding of this film by secular commentators. It seems they have no vocabulary for the crux of the Christian story.

It doesn't matter though, really. Gibson has crafted a masterpiece that is reaching people in a very deep way. The message of the film has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and everything to do with a deep meditation on the meaning of Christ's sacrifice. If the secularists like Kelly don't get it, that's their problem.

[Coleus]

NJ Catholic priest was so appalled by Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ'' that he described the film as "religious barbarism.'' "I saw it as religious barbarism ... in my opinion, God did not send his son to die,''

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Meanwhile the film passed $300 million today....

I predicted 400 million by Easter!

[beckett]

It is no surpise that a Catholic priest doesn't fully understand -- or wishes to change -- the doctrine of the Church. That doesn't mean that vast majorities of Christians likewise don't understand Christ's mission and who sent him to carry it out. The priest you refer to, Rev. Kenneth Lausch of St Joseph's parish in Mendham NJ, stated that "God did not send His son to die." The statement is directly contrary to two thousand years of Catholic teaching. Father Lausch needs to brush up on the Nicene Creed.

[Dataman]

What's truly scary is people like this, who are happy exposing their Stygian ignorance and stupidity in public, who in fact can make a living off it if, and clearly expect not to be held accountable for it.

Phrased another way,

Why do the wicked prosper?