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I HATE the idea that this movie is going to come out in the pop culture, and people are going to go to it and think they are seeing what Jesus is like, that they would take the most wonderful, awful and important event in human history and try to package it as entertainment.

While I respect your opinion, I LOVE the idea of bringing a real depiction of Christ's suffering FOR the world TO the world.

If the producers' intentions are to market the agony of Christ and succeed in making a mint, so be it, but if the world is exposed to the love of God that brought such a traumatic and radical expression of it, then, I say, BRING IT ON, LORD!

Our view should be that of the apostle Paul, who said:

"Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will; the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel; the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, rather than pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yes, and I will rejoice." (Philippians 1:15-18)

In addition, we must remember that David slew Goliath with the giant's sword. So why can't we use the instrument of the media to do the same in reaching others for Christ?

Can you imagine if someone would do a truthful depiction of the horrors of abortion? What impact would that make?

but Paul didn't say, go ahead and break the 2nd commandment. There is a standard Biblically for how God is to be worshipped. Concern about religious art is indeed, passe in our postmodern culture, but I don't see how we can read the clear language of the passage I cited and think that a film or artistic portrayal of Jesus doesn't violate this.

That is the baseline of my concern, and the pop-culture part of it extends from that.