[nmh]

"We need to be carefull not to overdo the physical agony of the cross to the exclusion of the spiritual impact. Actually, the physical pain was not the worst part. It was the awful seperation that occured between the the Son and the Father when "all our sin was laid on him." At that moment the Lord Jesus felt the crushing weight of all mankind's iniquity."

How right you and Chuck are. I see the violence being emphasized and that concerns me ... there are other concerns about this movie as well ... .

[Proud_texan]

It's not a concern to me and I don't see violence being emphasized, it's certainly part of the Passion, just not the entire part.

I would also speculate that it's (pain) probably the part that humans can relate to, I can't speak for all humans, but I don't know how hard the spiritual side of it was for Jesus so I have to make do with the part I can come close to understanding.

That doesn't mean that I can't recognize there are other parts.

[drlevy88]

The torture, mutilation, blood and gore are a picture of something which goes eternally deeper, quite philosophically granted; but most importantly they were a God-designated, God-ordained, God-blessed picture of that something. We substitute airy, modern philosophizations at our own peril. Make the blood and gore into an icon to be worshiped for its own sake? NEVER, EVER. Remember it and its gut impact as the most striking picture possible on mortal soil? A millon times YES!!!