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I have went to see The Passion and I felt compelled to write a few lines about the movie:

First off all, I can't shake the fact that I think this movie offers us the truth... I can imagine this really happened. The torture with the whips, the cruel crusifiction, everything.
Also the part where Jesus is almost begging his Father for help alongside the Olive-tree...
I think that even if Jesus was the Son of God, he would still have been scared to death for what would happen. He would feel the pain.

Then, Judas getting the money for his betrayal. Thirty Silverlings.
A friend of mine who was with me asked me: "Why do they show that with such show?"
I immediately answered: "The money that flies through the air, to be catched by Judas, is actually the selling of Jesus' life. They just show the significance."

What I don't like at all, is that they can't get their quotes right.
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I always heard it was: "Please, my Father, let this chalice (that's a cup btw) pass over me... <silence>. But it's not my will... It's your Will! Your will be done!"
But I could be mistaken at that point.

Also, about Satan being a messenger of Light, I get where you're coming from, and I actually discussed that with a RL friend, and when Satan (or at least some form of devil) entered the movie as a pale man, with no hair, and a grim face, we both had the thought 'shouldn't he be fair to look at?'
It came to me later that this is how Jesus sees him... Jesus sees the truth behind Satan.
Then Satan trying to seduce Jesus to dis-believing the Word of his Father.
"Do you really believe that one man can bear the full burden of sin? No one can carry this burden, I tell you. It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly. No one. Ever. No. Never..."
These really are treacherous words, but what I admire is that they do not touch the heart of Jesus at all. He just ignores Satan and keeps praying to his Father.
But then, when the light around Jesus (which came from the moon) suddenly disappears, you see Jesus actually despairing for a moment. When the light reappears, all hope returns in his heart.
What I don't get it is Satan asking to Jesus: "Who is your father? Who are you?"
Thats a part I just don't get.
But then the Snake, which slides to Jesus, and Jesus trampling the Snake, I think I do get. The Snake represents Evil, right?

"He curses the sick by magic. With the help of Devils. He casts out Devils with the help of Devils!"
Isn't this the part where Jesus says something along the lines of:
"No kingdom can stand if brought apart by internal struggles. For how can I use Beëlzebub to cast out demons without bringing internal struggles into his own Kingdom?" (or something along those lines, I only read the Dutch version, so I'm translating to English here).

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Next, the horrible whips which they had done. All the while Jesus did not cry (for as far as I can remember) nor did he cry out.
This is the part where even the funniest people in my class went silent. The entire room went silent. For this scene showed what it was to be tortured like that.
Alltogether, this scene lasts for about ten minutes.
Ten minutes of seeing how someone was tortured, and I've no doubt that this man was tortured for over an hour in real life.
How he could go on after that, was beyond me.
But I do think I know where he got his strenght... In the knowledge of knowing there is a God.
He got his strength of out Believing... Something we all should do...

Jesus did not like the way the Church was being run

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I am very sure that if Jesus would be alive this day, he would say the exact same thing. And I can only agree to that.
Jesus gave us the message to love eachother, and to believe and trust in God, for his Father would show us the way, he would lead us, he would give us Salvation.
But the Church gives us rules, forbids things, like pre-marrigial sex, gay-weddings, and furthermore (and what I think is the worst) they tell us HOW TO BELIEVE.
You can't do that. You can't say: "Go to the Church each Sunday, or you'll burn in hell!"
No one, besides God himself, has the authority and the Power to say that line.

I personally, despise the Church.
They tell us how to believe, they lay down rules, they have statues of pure gold...
I especially lost my belief in the Church when I saw the film Stigmata.
At the end they reveal that in 1994 there was found a scripture in jeruzalem, and it was supposed to be written by Jesus himself!
It told us that we did not have to go to church, for the power of God was in your own heart. All we needed to do is belief, and search for God in nature itself, and we would find and we would see.
When this document was proven to be accurate, and really written by someone of Jerusalem two thousand years ago, the Church immediately called the document blasphemy!
For it contradicted everything else. It contradicted the Church. It told you that the Power of God was not to be found in buildings of stone. If that document was to be found in the real world, no one would go to church anymore, and the church would fade away, which is something they obviously tried to prevent.

But then, this was my point of view.
I hope you're still alive, since it took me an hour and a half to write this.


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