Saw I finally saw the Passion of the Christ

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Berzerker


Does that mean Christians find his teachings invalid without his death and resurrection? Strange, Jesus lamented how people needed miracles. Faith in his teachings or faith that he died and was resurrected, i,e, one last miracle for those lacking faith in his teachings.



If those 7 passages make 7 points, it isn't parsing to respond to each point.



I haven't seen it, I said I wasn't interested in seeing some gut get flayed for 2 hours.



You gotta be kidding!

The Resurrection wasn't just a miracle.

Read Paul to see what it means.

It is the reason why their is Christianity...

JM

[Berzerker]

Pekka

Yeah if it gets your panties in a twist, but if you however do go and watch it, don't wo nder why peopel call you an idiot. If you go see a porn movie, you're an idiot if you come back crying it had nudity in it.

You called people idiots for thinking it was too violent or anti-semitic, not people who saw the movie expecting the violence only to complain about it.

This is not my point and this is false analogy. I suggest you go smack yourself in the head. At least I can read better than you can. I read my posts again, just in case you say 'well you can't write?!+2423´+0'. Yes I can. Results of ghetto education can be seen in your reading abilities.

Really? Let's see what you said:

Anyone who thinks this movie was anti-semitici is an idiot.

Changing your tune I see...

Jon

The Resurrection wasn't just a miracle.

Read Paul to see what it means.

It is the reason why their is Christianity...

Christianity began before his death, it began with his message.

[Pekka]

Concerning the violence of the movie Berz, the violence. Adn yeah, anyone is an idiot who thinks it was anti-semitic movie. Period.

What? Are you going to be upset now? Or perhaps very apologetic for my rude behaviour? Feeling sorry for someone? What ever.

[Kidlicious]

Mel Gibson does like to make controversial movies. He hopes people will call him anti-something. He did it with Patriot too. The movie probably is anti-semitic.

[Berzerker]

Concerning the violence of the movie Berz, the violence. Adn yeah, anyone is an idiot who thinks it was anti-semitic movie. Period.

Support your accusation. You just keep repeating "idiot" with nothing to back it up...

What? Are you going to be upset now? Or perhaps very apologetic for my rude behaviour? Feeling sorry for someone? What ever.

Why would I be apologetic for your behavior? Why would I be upset? Are you the new Fez? Frankly I'm laughing at you, so I'll apologise for that.

[Pekka]

if you're laughing, good. I hope it's happy laughing, so at least you feel good. Jesus hater. You are prolly Catholic too, aren't you? Don't tell me you are n't.. I can.. smell you..

[Berzerker]

Hey Jon, would Christianity be the religion it is if Jesus preached pedophilia?

[Pekka]

He didn't have to

And just so that Berz won't lose his marbles and ruin the day, I'm not even half serious.

But the few points I make I stand behind them. Too violent or not, it's a matter of opinion. Not a fact. Anti-semitic? Jeesh.. I guess matter of opinion too, but them folks prolly think my hair style is anti-semitic too. That is, not a fact.

[Berzerker]

But the few points I make I stand behind them.

You can't stand if you're running, and running is what you've been doing.

Anyone who thinks this movie was anti-semitici is an idiot.

Where did you stand behind that? You ran from it... Oh yeah, its those "idiots" who went to the movie knowing full well about the violence only to complain about it later.

I'm not even half serious.

Or half intelligible.

[Pekka]

Stand, run, even Jesus don't know what you're talking about. Learn to read and understand. And stop hating Jesus. You didn't answer me though.. you are catholic, aren't you?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Berzerker


Does that mean Christians find his teachings invalid without his death and resurrection? Strange, Jesus lamented how people needed miracles. Faith in his teachings or faith that he died and was resurrected, i,e, one last miracle for those lacking faith in his teachings.

you don't understand Christianity at all

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

1 Corinthians 15
The Resurrection of Christ
1Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter,[b] and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

9For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
The Resurrection of the Dead
12But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27For he "has put everything under his feet."[c] Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

29Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31I die every day—I mean that, brothers—just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,
"Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die."[d] 33Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." 34Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
The Resurrection Body
35But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"[e]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. 48As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we[f] bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

50I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[g]
55"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"[h] 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.



Paul says it plain as day. His death and resurrection are not just miracles, meant to support peoples faith. No, instead they are the key points of Christianity. They are what makes Christ something other then a good man. (and there are lots of good men, many not even Christian, but I don't follow them, I don't worship them, they did not save me)

Jon Miller

[DeathByTheSword]

he probably said already but i am to backward lazy today to look if it is true...but pekka says about the hitting and the portraining jews badly 'isnt this as it happens so why not show the truth'.

you says is on assumption that what the bible says is true...and that it is a correct telling of what happened back then...but as we all most of the stories in the bible were written 10 years after jesus died...and rewritten for policital reasons thousands of times...having said that we do not know what happened back then or even if it happened...but if you see the POTC as a story instead of a religious historial accuret event then there is nothing wrong with it...but i think it is very arrogent to make a movie that depicts the suffering of jesus and in my eyes also is slanderous for jews and call it historial correct.

what mel gibson did is take the stories about jesus suffering that he heard in his childhood...put some extra blood in it to get HIS point across and sold it as and correct dipiction of what happened...he sold it more as a reinactment then a movie...and that is what i believe is wrong about this movie

[Jon Miller]

it wasn't rewritten for political reasons 1000s of times

our current Bibles are made from fragments found from 90-200 AD (some perhaps earlier) and it would take a huge cynic to think that everything was heavily modified between the writing and the copies we have

if the catholic church didn't highly modify the Bible, when they were the sole caretakers of it (and look at how corrupt they were during some of the time), then it seems to me as if the sources weren't modified in the few years between when they were written, and when we have actual copies from

the movie is fairly in keeping with the Bible, and is fairly Catholic (for things that I noticed that weren't in the Bible) and as such is to be expected

How was is slanderous do jews? Unless you beleive that the whole Bible is slanderous to jews. And most Christians would say the film was basically historically correct.

I can post what the Bible says about His death if some of you need that.

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

by fairly catholic I am meaning that there was a huge focus on Mary, and that there were a number of times that I thought, oh, this is meant to explain a holy artifact

JM