Posted on 10/11/2025 11:09:19 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The end of Season Six.
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Yup ...
I’m a Fan.
I own all through Season 5, but I have only watched thru season 2, I think. At first, some of the tangents irritated me, but not so now. They had to fill in the story somehow. Have you heard when Season Six will be done?
Never mind, I see 2027 for the next one.
I’ve never watched The Passion, too violent. I get it without seeing it.
I think they are wise not to duplicate that idea.
So, why not portray both aspects? Fact is, Gibson's portrayal was not as brutal as the real thing.
I see. Our Lord went through that horror for us, but you can’t even watch?
Jesus’ flogging nearly gave me a heart attack.
The Passion is LESS violent then it was. Hurts to type that.
Could only watch it once. But am glad I did. As a student, university degreed, in History as well as a Christian I had some notion of Roman brutality and what crucification entailed. But Gibson’s film puts you there. My wife and I left the theater different than when we entered.
The Chosen is outstanding as is House of David on Amazon Prime.
The point of The Passion of the Christ was how realistic violent the crucifixion was and the suffering involved.
For two thousand years nobody has seen that movie. The movie didn’t exist. Yet martyrs died for Christ. Themselves deeply faithful believers without the movie.
I have no problem if you or anyone else wants to watch it. Watch it. That’s your prerogative.
I tell you #4 “Lazarus Raised” is my Favorite when Mary -——
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I understand #6 is done filming.
I’m waiting on #5 on the Shelf
at Hobby Lobby.——soon now.
Okay...I am going to start binging. 😄
I look forward to the new movie. In my humble opinion, nothing beats Gibson’s Passion which was guided by the writings of St. Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), a woman with visions of the Way of the Cross.
But what it cannot convey is that the greatest suffering - the "cup" that He had to "drink," (Lk. 12:50) that so weighed upon the Lord that He sought to escape it in His passion, if possible in the Lord's will (Mt. 26:39; Luke 22:42) - was not just flogging and crucifixion, which others also endured (as atheists will tell us), but becoming as it were sin for us (2 Co. 5:21) as mankind's scapegoat, taking the blame for us, and becoming what God - the Father, Son and Spirit - loathed.
And thus for a period of time suffering the loss, the utter Hellish abandonment He never had before, that of His fellowship with His Father, as if the Father said, "I never knew you," signified by 3 hours of darkness, (Matthew 27:45) when in fulfilling prophecy Jesus rhetorically cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46) as God the Father laid upon Him the the iniquity of us all, and in totality made his "soul an offering for sin." (Isaiah 53:10)
This union of fellowship btwn the members of the Godhead - and that of being made the opposite of what God is, sin for us as it were, was such that no created being has known in totality, and thus cannot fully conceive of the loss of it, however brief.
Add to this the lack of any actual support from others, who misunderstood His mission, and would feel disappointed by His death. Thus, the suffering of the Christ was physical, spiritual and emotional, all of which must have weighed upon Him as He earnestly prayed in anticipation, in such "agony" that He sweated blood, after an angel appeared from heaven, strengthening him. (Luke 22:42-44)
Of course, the Lord knew that God would raise Him up unto Glory, "who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2) However, knowing this did not negate the suffering and spiritual reality of the aforementioned and the foreboding of it.
To reduce that suffering of Christ to merely being physical does not do justice to what the Lord endured.
And the crowd standing watching in real time nearly 2 millennia ago felt...?
What do WE feel, standing at the foot of the cross now?
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