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Could you answer T or F to the statements below,
any commit would be fine.
Thank you, Jeff
Gibson has testified that this movie The Passion
of the Christ represents his faith, and there can
be no doubt of that for those who view the film
without prejudice.
Consider the following examples of how The
Passion of the Christ exalts Mary in an
unscriptural fashion:
* Peter and John call Mary "Mother" and the word
"Mother" is capitalized in the subtitles.
___ T ___F
* As Jesus is tormented by the devil in the
Garden of Gethsemane, Mary wakes up and senses
Jesus' agony. (Gibson got this from the visions
of Catholic mystic Anne-Catherine Emmerich.
"During this agony of Jesus, I saw the Blessed
Virgin also overwhelmed with sorrow and anguish
of soul, in the house of Mary, the mother of
Mark. She was with Magdalen and Mary in the
garden belonging to the house, and almost
prostrate from grief, with her whole body bowed
down as she knelt. She fainted several times, for
she beheld in spirit different portions of the
agony of Jesus.")
___T ___F
* Jesus prays to God, "I am your servant and the
son of your handmaid." The Bible never tells us
that Jesus prayed in this manner. It is another
unscriptural Catholic exaltation of Mary.
___T ___F
* After Peter denies Jesus, he is leaving the
courtyard and sees Mary, Mary Magdalene, and
John. He gets on his knees before Mary, calls her
"Mother," and confesses his denial to her. She
holds out her hand to him (as if she is going to
forgive him), and he runs away saying that he
isn't worthy. Peter twice tells Mary not to touch
him after he denied Jesus. (Gibson got this from
the visions of Catholic mystic Anne-Catherine
Emmerich.) This is rank heresy. It was Jesus
against whom Peter sinned that night, not Mary!
____T ____F
* Mary is near Jesus all during His suffering,
co-mingling her sorrow with his pain.
____T ____F
* Mary is the only person other than Jesus who
can see Satan. This gives her supernatural
abilities akin to those of Christ.
_____T ____F
* As the soldiers bring Jesus before Caiaphas,
Jesus looks at Mary, who is across the courtyard,
and Mary says, "It has begun, Lord ... so be it."
Thus, in this Catholic version of the Gospel Mary
adds her "so be it" to Christ's sufferings just
as she did to the angel's announcement of the
virgin birth.
____T __F
* Mary goes to a specific place in the temple and
lays down on the floor with her head on the
stones because she sensed the presence of Jesus
chained underneath the floor. She knew where he
was. The camera pans through the floor and shows
Jesus hanging from shackles and looking up into
the stone ceiling toward Mary. (This is from the
visions of Anne-Catherine Emmerich. "Mary was
with Jesus in spirit, and Jesus was with her; but
this loving Mother wished to hear with her own
ears the voice of her Divine Son.")
____T ____F
* Mary interacts with Pilate's wife and appeals
to her to protect Jesus from the angry crowd.
There is not a hint of this in Scripture.
(Gibson got this from the visions of Catholic
mystic Anne-Catherine Emmerich.)
____T ____F
* Pontius Pilate's wife gives some cloths to
Mary. (Gibson got this from the visions of
Catholic mystic Anne-Catherine Emmerich. " "I saw
Claudia Procles, the wife of Pilate, send some
large pieces of linen to the Mother of God.")
____T ____F
* Mary and Mary Magdalene wipe up Jesus' blood
after He is whipped. (This is from Anne-Catherine
Emmerich's visions. "Then it was that the Mother
of Jesus, accompanied by the holy women,
approached the pillar and wiped up the blood with
which it and the ground around were saturated.")
_____T _____F
* Once when Jesus falls down, he is depicted as
not having the strength to rise until he looks at
Mary and gains strength from her. He is depicted
as receiving strength from her at other times as
well.
____T ____F
* Once Mary runs up to Jesus when he falls and
there is a flashback showing the child Jesus
falling and hurting himself and being comforted
by Mary, thus directly associating Mary's aid
with Jesus' sufferings.
_____T ____F
* While Jesus is on the cross, Mary comes up and
kisses his foot. The blood runs down into her
mouth, and she backs away "almost licking her
lips with blood all over her face."
_____T ____F
* As she is looking up at the cross, Mary asks
Jesus if she can die with him. She says, "Flesh
of my flesh and heart of my heart, let me die
with you." (This is from the visions of Catholic
mystic Anne-Catherine Emmerich. "The Blessed
Virgin, filled with intense feelings of motherly
love, entreated her Son to permit her to die with
him.") One reviewer admits, "There is that
identity of Mary with the death of Christ as
well; not just in mourning His death but in
wanting to participate in it." The Bible says
that Jesus Christ BY HIMSELF bore our sins (Heb.
1:3), and the reason why the Bible has none of
these depictions is because Mary had nothing to
do with Christ's suffering for our sins. The way
that Mary is placed everywhere with Jesus in His
suffering is blasphemous.
_____T _____F
* Mary is depicted as holding the dead Jesus at
the foot of the Cross, which is a reenactment of
the unscriptural Roman Catholic Pieta. This
depicts Mary as the suffering Mother who assisted
her son in our redemption. Roman Catholic priest
Thomas Rosica, who oversaw World Youth Day 2002
in Canada, observed: "The interplay of Mary and
Jesus in this film is moving, and reaches its
apex in the scene of the Pietà . The Mother of the
Lord is inviting each of us to share her grief
and behold her Son."
_____T ______F
Jeff Hallmark
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