Tehran museum to screen blockbuster “Passion of the Christ”

MNA ^ | 2006/12/23

[RaceBannon]

The movie was not based on Scripture, it was based on the writings of a mystic Nun, Anne Catherine Emmerich, look it up, it follows her book more than the Bible.

[AnAmericanMother]

Ever made a movie?

[AnAmericanMother]

Here are two ways to get there:

1. Go to your lower menu bar (in Windows) - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Character Map.

Call up the Character Map window and cut and paste whatever oddball characters you need (umlauts, scharfes "S", etc.)

2. For umlauts, hold down the ALT key and type the following numbers on your keypad: 132 (ä), 148 (ö), 129 (ü). Scharfes "S" is 225 (ß).

Isn't that fun?

[RaceBannon]

If I made a movie on a Biblical event, I would expect to have some poetic license just to fill in gaps, but when I find out, and read the book for myself, and see that those gaps came from the writings of someone who believed that angels took her back in time to the original birth of Jesus, flew her around in the air and kept her up there for a while...I'd either call that insanity or demonic posession.

[FARS]

Thank you ma'am.

I know how to use the Microsoft Word keys where you hit CTRL+ ' - then the "e" key to get a sharp accented (French)"e" and other variations of this using CTRL + various symbols on the keyboard.

Your second way of noting down the ASCI codes is perhaps easier if I had a frequent enough use to take the time to look them up.

Merry Xmas!

[AnAmericanMother]

Sorry that worries you. Private revelation is never required to be believed, you know. And if you're worried about people being kept up in the air, what about the Revelation to St. John?

And most of what Bl. Emmerich's writing provides is detail and drama - which is necessary in making a film.

Such incidents as the healing of Malchus and the baptism by blood of Longinus long predate Emmerich, they are part of the tradition from early times.

[Tribune7]

Or Mel's drunken outburst was just a shrewd marketing ploy.

[donna]

How do you figure that?

[Tribune7]

That was sarcasm.

[RaceBannon]

But none of that had to do with Biblical truth, and that is more important than anything.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, the Bible is certainly the leading source of Truth.

But it's not the only one. Sola Scriptura is a snake eating its own tail. You needed the Tradition of the Church to compile the Bible in the first place. And remember that the Bible says itself that it does not contain all that Jesus and the Apostles said and did.

[RaceBannon]

If the Bible is not it's own verifier of truth, then there is no truth.

If anything contradicts the Bible, or adds to what is taught, then that is not a biblical thought/idea/action.

Not even debatable.

[donna]

Do'h!

[AnAmericanMother]

Excuse me, but who compiled the Bible, and when?

And which version is the inerrant one? Septuagint or modern Hebrew OT? St. Jerome or Luther?

[unspun]

They better watch the movie and reflect hard.

Like Gnosticism in Europe, Mohammedanism is a subversion of the truth of the real God and frankly, myriad demons use it to prevent hearts from turning to their Savior, Jesus the only Lamb of God who can take away sin, and the Returning King.

[Tribune7]

Merry Christmas :-)

[RaceBannon]

not this again...

I suppose the Jews never had Scripture until Jerome was around, eh?

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, they didn't have a New Testament. And, again, Septuagint or modern Hebrew scripture?

[RaceBannon]

What do you care? You wouldn't listen to any answer, so....

[AnAmericanMother]

No, I am genuinely interested in how you can reject all tradition in favor of internal self-validation by a work that didn't exist in its present form for about 200 years after Christianity began, or about 1700 years in the case of the KJV . . .

We are agreed that the Bible is God-breathed Scripture. I simply propose that Tradition, via the intervention of the Holy Spirit, had to have a hand in assembling the texts from the numerous sources available at the time. Why were some in, and some out? Why do the Catholics use the Septuagint (the text available to Christ himself, BTW), while the Protestants use the translation of the 17th c. Hebrew canon?

Internal self-validation is inadequate when a work is not produced by the same hand at the same time.