"THE PASSION" - THE PLOT
Scene: Garden of Gethsemane -- Jesus is standing with his back to the camera, and is obviously in great emotional difficulty. His body is bending over at the waist time and again, while he can be heard groaning and uttering words (in Aramaic). After a few moments, Jesus walks over to his sleeping disciples, uttering Peter's name. All three sleeping disciples jump right up. One disciple asks Jesus if anything is wrong? Jesus answers, "why couldn't you watch with me for just one hour"? Another disciples asks Jesus, "Master, is anything wrong? Are we in danger, should we flee"? Jesus answered that, he just wanted them to pray with him. Another disciple asks Jesus, "Should we get the other disciples"?
Jesus said, "No, I don't want them to see me like this. Just pray".
Jesus walks back to his isolated spot in the Garden, beginning to agonize once more. He looks very human, very frail. John asks Peter, "What is wrong with the Master?" Peter replies:
"He is acting afraid."
The disciples then sneak up close to Jesus, clearly within earshot range, and watch him. Jesus was definitely a man in extreme emotional agony, for you could see him agonizing, swaying back and forth. Jesus begs God to defend him and save him from the traps "they have set for me". Jesus is definitely afraid.
Suddenly, a female Satan whose voice sounds distinctly male, taunts Jesus saying:
"... do you really believe that one man can really bear all the burden of sin forever? No one man can bear that burden; it is too heavy, too costly."
Jesus suddenly changed his countenance. Suddenly, he stood more upright, with his face very different. He seemed suddenly infused with a new attitude. Speaking toward heaven, this Jesus said:
"Lord if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me; nevertheless, not my will be done, but thine."
Since this scene represents the first heresy of the film, let us stop right here to examine what we have just learned.
First, the true Jesus was not afraid in the agony of Gethsemane. Jesus suffered great agony because He began to feel the weight of all the sins of the world -- even those sins not yet committed by people not yet born -- upon His body and soul. Listen to a commentary:
"Now, the grand expiatory sacrifice begins to be offered ... in this garden Jesus ... begins to offer his own body- his own life- a lamb without spot, for the sin of the world. Luke observes, Luke 22:43, 44, that there appeared unto him an angel from heaven strengthening him; and that, being in an agony, his sweat was like great drops of blood falling to the ground ... The prospect of death could not cause him to suffer thus, when he knew that in less than three days he was to be restored to life, and be brought into an eternity of blessedness. His agony and distress can receive no consistent explication but on this ground- He SUFFERED, the JUST for the UNJUST, that he might BRING us to GOD. O glorious truth! O infinitely meritorious suffering! And O! above all, the eternal love, that caused him to undergo such sufferings for the sake of SINNERS !" —Adam Clarke's Commentary [Emphasis was in the original]
Secondly, notice the mild, but unmistakable, change in wording here. In the movie, Jesus says, "let this chalice pass from me", a clear reference to the Roman Catholic chalice with which the priest conducts Mass and Communion. The KJV clearly says, "cup", not chalice. Admittedly, this matter seems small, but this clear reference to Catholicism is just the first of much, much more to come.
Thirdly, Satan did not tempt Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane! Since Gibson said his account was "true to the Gospels" and Dobsen said the movie was "faithful to the essentials of the biblical account", this issue is not a small one! Satan only tempted Jesus one time, and that was in the desert following Jesus' baptism. [Mark 1:13]
Fifthly, the True Gospel Message is terribly muted -- The essence of the Gospel is that Jesus' death on the cross is a substitutionary sacrifice -- that a person who receives Jesus as Savior, repenting of his sin, will not have to pay an eternal price for that sin. The only time in this movie in which the substitutionary doctrine is ever mentioned is in the Garden when Satan sneers terribly at the idea that one man's sacrifice could possibly pay for the sin of the entire burden of the whole world. Surprisingly, Jesus did not rise to a defense! He said not one word in defense of this sneering accusation by Satan! He merely said, "If possible, let this chalice pass from me..."
One of the major facts we learned as we studied the Six Step Attitudinal Change Plan (NEWS1055) is that the original shocking proposal must come from a proper authority figure! Listen to the way in which the Illuminati chose to word this all-important concept. Step #1 of this Six-Step plan reads as follows:
"Some practice so offensive that it can scarcely be discussed in public is advocated by a RESPECTED expert in a RESPECTED forum." [Emphasis was in the original]
Thus, in this movie, it is very important that a proper authority figure never did state the substitutionary sacrifice doctrine! Only a sneering Satan stated this concept, without Jesus strongly defending it! Please take a few moments to really meditate on this very, very important concept.
A person who knows their Bible well will look at Satan's sneering statement and relax, thinking that the movie has made this key point of a substitutionary sacrifice. However, an unchurched person who knows nothing about the Bible and has never had the Gospel presented to him is not likely to make this connection strongly enough to be moved to be saved! Such an unchurched person is likely to see a sneering Satan impugn the idea that one man's sacrifice could possibly atone for the sins of the entire world and believe that Satan was right! The chance that an unsaved, biblically illiterate person is likely to come to the conclusion that Satan was right is immeasurably increased by the fact that Jesus did not strongly rise to defend the substitutionary principle!
This principle is so key you must understand it fully. An unchurched person is likely to see a tortured, brutally crucified Jesus, and say in his heart, 'what does that mean for me?' Most people will never make the connection between Jesus' sacrifice and what that means for their eternal soul. For this reason, we believe this movie has little to no real significance in an evangelistic outreach. So many apostate churches like Rick Warren's Purpose-Driven churches are attempting to bring people who have seen this movie into their churches, where they will never hear the proper Gospel. We believe that little genuine spiritual seed is likely to come from this movie.
In fact, Catholics may look at the weak, indecisive Jesus and realize that Roman Catholic doctrine is correct -- "She (Mary) completes in her flesh as already in her heart what is lacking in the suffering of Christ." [Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Salvifici Doloris, n. 25) Satan was entirely correct: Jesus' sacrifice was not enough to save the sin of the whole world! His sacrifice had to be augmented by Mary's suffering! Jesus was, and is, "lacking"!
Finally, we have to remind you of the Biblical doctrine that God will not allow a holy result to come from an unholy source. He cares just as much about methods as He does about results. Listen to the Scripture:
"And if anyone enters competitive games, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully, fairly, according to the rules laid down." [2 Timothy 2:5; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]
And, make no mistake, this movie was conceived and produced by unholy, Roman Catholic professionals! A Jesuit priest was one of the script writers and an Opus Dei supernumiary was an assistant director to Mel Gibson. Unholy methods never can achieve holy results.
In fact, you have to remember how genuine salvation occurs. Jesus stated: "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." [John 6:44]
Did this Scripture say that a person is brought to the point where he/she desires to receive Jesus as Savior because they are emotionally whipped and sawed by a movie which brutally depicts the torture and crucifixion of Jesus? No, it says that only when the Father calls a person can that person come to Jesus! Therefore, is God going to use an unholy movie -- created by unholy Catholic priests, whose assistant film director is a member of a blood-oath secret society -- as a means by which to bring people to His Son? Of course, not.
But, that old deceiver Satan, loves to fool people into thinking this fundamentally Catholic movie is going to be a great Evangelistic tool. Be careful of the supposed conversions, for Satan is expert in creating the false tare plant rather than the genuine wheat! Remember that a tare plant looks exactly like a wheat until the very end of the growth cycle, when the wheat grows a full head of seed and the tare grows a very tiny head of inedible seed. From the beginning all the way to the setting of the head of seed, the tare plant looks exactly like a wheat plant!
Satan also loves to jerk people emotionally so they will make a shallow decision for Jesus that will die out just as quickly as the shallow plants of which Jesus warned in His parable of the Sower and the Seed [Luke 8:5-18]
At the End of the Age, Jesus foretold in this parable, Satan would plant many false tares in the fields of the world. This movie is likely to produce "tare conversions".
Mary is psychically connected to Jesus - Jesus is seized. As soon as Jesus is led away in chains by Caiaphas' soldiers, the camera quickly switches to Mary sleeping in bed. Suddenly, she jolts awake, knowing in her spirit that something is not right. She seemed to be psychically connected to Jesus, so much so that she shared in His sufferings. Of course, this is plainly Roman Catholic teaching. Remember what Pope John Paul II stated:
"She (Mary) completes in her flesh as already in her heart what is lacking in the suffering of Christ." [Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Salvifici Doloris, n. 25)
Throughout this movie, the Virgin Mary is connected heart-to-heart with Jesus. When He hurts, she hurts. When He suffers emotional pain, she suffers the same pain. At the cross, Mary cries out to Jesus, "Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I want to die with you". The Bible uses this term, "Flesh of my flesh" only once in Genesis 2:23, describing the marriage relationship between Adam and Eve. However, this is standard Roman Catholic teaching about the Virgin Mary, that she suffered in her flesh with a "sword piercing her heart".
When Jesus was led out of Caiaphas' courtyard, and once the yard was completely emptied of people, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene came into the courtyard. Mary carefully walked around the yard, seemingly seeking something. Suddenly, she stopped, got down on the floor and put her mouth to the floor. Then, she went limp on that floor. The camera then panned through the width of the floor to a dungeon beneath. Jesus is shown hanging from the ceiling with his hands firmly attached to a large chain. He was directly underneath the spot where the Virgin Mary was lying! Clearly, this scene was meant to reinforce the early scene, described above, where Mary knew in her heart that something had happened to Jesus. They were connected, heart-to-heart, so completely that the sufferings and tortures of Jesus become sufferings and tortures to Mary.
The Virgin Mary followed Jesus all along the processional route from Pilate's courtyard to Golgotha. Along the route, Jesus repeatedly fell because of the beating he had taken from Caiaphas' men and from Pilate's torturers. (Notice that the Biblical account does not show Jesus falling even once!) On several occasions, Jesus seemingly just lacked the strength to go on, or to get up; yet, when his eyes met Mary, He suddenly received an infusion of strength. This scenario was most powerful when Jesus was being scourged at the pillar in Pilate's courtyard. At one point, he was beaten so much he simply collapsed -- totally. His entire body was either on the ground or leaning against the pillar, except his hands which were tied to the top of the pillar.
Suddenly, Jesus' eyes met Mary's. Renewed strength flowed through him, and He immediately got back up on His feet.
Time and time again, Mary infused strength into Jesus. A totally Catholic teaching!
At the cross, Mary suffers so deeply with her son that she kneels down, almost lying on the ground, and suddenly grasps a hand full of stones in each hand, a sign of her emotional distress. Mary stood close enough to the cross that her face was splattered with Jesus' blood. Mary also approached the cross to kiss Jesus' face, getting his blood all over her lips and cheeks. Later, when the Roman soldier thrusts the spear into Jesus' side, a tremendous, bloody spray ensued, splattering Mary's face and that of the soldier.
Through all these visual means, the movie depicts that Mary "co-suffered" with Jesus, "Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I want to die with you". Mary is clearly Co-Redeemer!
Virgin Mary becomes a nun and is Peter's first Confessor -- As soon as Mary saw Jesus led into Caiaphas' courtyard, she prayed, "Has it begun, Lord"? She was pictured in an outfit that clearly and closely resembled that of a nun. We saw a scene in which Mary was not wearing a nun-like habit when Jesus had a flashback at a time when he was constructing a high table while his mother fixed lunch. Mary was wearing a simple black dress with a matching black scarf, with no white linen slightly protruding from the scarf.
However, from the time Jesus was arrested, Mary and most of the "holy women" were wearing outfits that made them look like Roman Catholic nuns.
Also at this time, both the holy women and the Apostles John and Peter began calling Mary "Mother". One of Catholicism's favorite titles for the Virgin Mary is "Mother of God". But, the worst is yet to come! After Peter had denied Jesus three times (no cock crowed), his eyes met Jesus' eyes and Peter was terribly remorseful. As he fled the courtyard, he came upon the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and the Apostle John. Crying out his remorse, Peter admitted he had sinned, repented, and then confessed that sin directly to Mary.
Peter received pardon from the Virgin Mary!
What a Catholic concept! The first Pope -- Peter -- and the man upon whom Jesus supposedly built his church, received his first confession from the Virgin Mary! Even an unchurched, non-Catholic is likely to get this message!
The Gospel According To Saint Anne Emmerich -- In Mel Gibson's televised interview with Dianne Sawyer, he admitted that he had taken much material for this movie from the mystic, Stigmatist nun, Anne Emmerich. Her book, the "Delorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ", was the book from which Gibson took much material. I listed a significant portion of Emmerich's book in NEWS1895 simply because I felt the leading of the Holy Spirit. I was not sure how much of this book was actually incorporated into the movie, but I listed significant sections anyway. Am I glad I did!
If you want to understand how severely Jesus was beaten in this movie, just read the portions of Emmerich's book I set into NEWS1895.
Beyond that, Gibson incorporated several key elements in Emmerich's book into this movie, none of which are in the Bible!
First, we saw the scene in which the Virgin Mary sopped up Jesus' blood with the linen cloth given her by Pilate's wife, Claudia! You can read this in the segment of NEWS1895 entitled, "Scene: Mary during the Flagellation of our Lord". In this movie, just as in Emmerich's book, Claudia sees Mary in the courtyard and is moved to compassion, enough so that she takes a white linen cloth to Mary. After Jesus is dragged out of Pilate's courtyard, the Virgin Mary goes into the yard and strides immediately to the flagellation pillar. Taking the white linen, the Virgin Mary sopped up the pools of blood with one piece of the linen; then, taking the other piece of linen, she began to physically scrub the blood from the stones. Mary Magdalene took off her white scarf to help the Virgin scrub blood. Thus is Emmerich's mystic, unbiblical vision exactly fulfilled in this movie!
Another part of Emmerich's vision revolves around a girl named Veronica. Even though I neglected to include this section in the Emmerich writing I placed in NEWS1893, Emmerich clearly reported this story about a girl named Veronica.
"… when the procession had advanced about two hundred steps from the spot where Simon began to assist our Lord in carrying his cross, the door of a beautiful house on the left opened, and a woman of majestic appearance, holding a young girl by the hand, came out … and was afterwards known by the name of Veronica … she made her way through the mob, the soldiers, and the archers, reached Jesus, fell on her knees before him, and presented the veil, saying at the same time, 'Permit me to wipe the face of my Lord.' Jesus took the veil in his left hand, wiped his bleeding face, and returned it with thanks. Seraphia (Jesus) kissed it, and put it under her cloak … No sooner did she reach her room than she placed the woolen veil on a table, and fell almost senseless on her knees. A friend who entered the room a short time after, found her thus kneeling, with the child weeping by her side, and saw, to his astonishment, the bloody countenance of our Lord imprinted upon the veil, a perfect likeness, although heartrending and painful to look upon ... Veronica kept this veil until her death, and hung it at the head of her bed; it was then given to the Blessed Virgin, who left it to the Apostles, and they afterwards passed it on to the Church." ["Delorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ", p. 240-241]
The movie sequence followed this description exactly! Veronica came out of a building along the processional route holding a young girl by the hand. When she saw Jesus, She dropped the girl's hand and began to work her way through the soldiers and the crowd. As she made her way, soldiers almost magically moved to the side just when Veronica came to them, thus allowing her to press toward a fallen Jesus. She took her white scarf off her head and placed it in Jesus' hands. He pressed the cloth to His face, and then handed the scarf back to her. Suddenly, a Roman soldier roughly and rudely yanked Veronica to her feet, forcing her to the side of the road. As Jesus walks by her, she stands meekly, holding her scarf open so it is visible as it hangs down her front. You can clearly see Jesus' face imprinted in this cloth!
Once again, we see an unbiblical, but thoroughly Catholic, story presented in this movie!
Emmerich depicts Jesus as wearing a scapular under his clothing. Listen to her description:
"Next they (Roman soldiers) put a crown of reeds upon his head, took off his robe and scapular, and then threw an old torn mantle, which scarcely reached his knees, over his shoulders; around his neck they hung a long iron chain, with an iron ring at each end, studded with sharp points, which bruised and tore his knees as be walked. "(Ibid., P. 158)
For those of you who do not know what a scapular is, and how worthless and unbiblical it is, let us provide this bit of history. Quoting our article, NEWS1334:
8. Invention of Scapulars, Medals, and Edible Religious Stamps -- 1600 A.D. -- People are so eager to think they can obtain eternal salvation without having to change their hearts and minds through Jesus' Blood. And I can think of no better way to provide false "assurance" of easy salvation than through Scapulars, Medals, and Edible Religious Stamps. Listen to its "assurances" to the gullible pagan believer.
"Whosoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire." [Mary's promise to St. Simon Stock, July 16, 1251]
"Our Lord taught us to say the 'Our Father'. Mary taught us the value of the Scapular. When we use it as a prayer, Our Lady draws us to the Sacred Heart of Her Divine Son. It is well, therefore, to hold the scapular in the hand while addressing Our Lady." ["The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima", Washington, NJ 07882, ImprimaturL +Thomas M. O'Leary, D.D. Bishop of Springfield]
Notice that the Virgin Mary is said to have taught the value of the Scapular. Since this movie depicts that the Roman Catholic Church began at Jesus' arrest, it makes sense that we should see a scapular somewhere, worn by someone!
Therefore, as I watched this movie, I was paying close attention as to whether Jesus was depicted as wearing a scapular. The first time Jesus was stripped of his outer garment was at the flagellation post in Pilate's courtyard. When the garment was removed, I could see that Jesus was not wearing a scapular. However, at the very end of the movie, on Golgotha, I suddenly realized that the penitent thief was wearing a brown scapular! Now, why would the penitent thief be portrayed as wearing a scapular?
Suddenly, I understood completely. Look back at the promise of the Virgin Mary to St. Simon Stock, July 16, 1251. "Whosoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
Clearly, the penitent thief richly deserved Purgatory. You see, the Catholic Church teaches that, even though Jesus' sacrifice provided forgiveness of sin, a taint of sin remained on the soul. To "purge" this sin stain off a person's soul, that person has to spend some time in Purgatory, whose fires burn just as hot as hellfire! However, Catholic theologians have a real problem with Jesus' promise to the penitent thief. Jesus said to this thief:
"Today, you shall be with Me in Paradise."
Obviously, this promise negates the teaching of Purgatory. So, how does an Jesuit script writer solve this problem? Since Purgatory is hellfire, the penitent thief on the cross could escape the fires of Purgatory by wearing a scapular! Most Catholics do not realize this invention did not come into the Catholic Church until 1600 A.D.! A devout Catholic would look at this scapular on the penitent thief and understand completely -- the thief would be able pass into Paradise that day because he was wearing a scapular when he died.
Virgin Satan Mother Carrying Divine Child -- This depiction of Antichrist is the most unbiblical and shocking part of this entire movie, in my opinion. As we stated earlier, Satan is depicted in this movie as a female who speaks in a male voice, thus possibly denoting androgyny. When I discussed this version of Satan during the Garden of Gethsemane portion, I said that we would discuss a time in the movie in which Satan was definitely fulfilling a feminine role. Listen to how this scene plays out.
During the time when Jesus was being flogged by Pilate's professional torturers, a considerable crowd gathered. The Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene had pressed to the front, when the Virgin carefully watched every detail, aiding Jesus with her spiritual strength when he got especially low. The camera suddenly panned to the opposite side of the crowd. The female Satan was carefully winding her way through the crowd, looking very menacing; she passed behind the back of the Roman officer in charge of the flagellation. Like the Virgin Mary, this female Satan was wearing black, but without the white linen that denoted a nun's habit.
Suddenly, as this female Satan moved away from behind the officer, you could see that she was carrying a very large, white, almost-albino child. Clearly, this female Satan was depicting a Virgin Mother and Divine Child. On the one side of the crowd, the Virgin Mary was contemplating her Divine Child, Jesus. This female Satan was obviously being pictured here as the opposite of the Virgin Mary, which would make her Divine Child the opposite of Jesus, whom the Bible calls Antichrist.
The message can be no other. Now, why was an Antichrist scene included in this movie which was created to be consistent with the four Gospels? This scene is most definitely not Biblical and as far as I know, is not Catholic. Therefore, why was it included? Frankly, I do not know for certain. But, the world is hurtling toward the fulfillment of prophecy relating to the End of the Age and the appearance of Antichrist. We can see that Jesus is near, "even at the doors". Was the inclusion of this Virgin Satanic Mother and her Divine (Antichrist) Child meant to signify that the appearance of the Antichrist is near, even at the doors?
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(btw, orang yg namanya **** juga ada kan?)
, gimana kalo pembicaraan tetap pada film2 yang bertema rohani? Khan ini thread "Rekomendasi Film-film Rohani", so kalo bisa yang kita bahas yang bertema rohani yah 
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