Essay on the passion of christ?!


Question: i have to write a 2-4 page essay on whats historically wrong in the movie.....like say in the bible it didnt have jesus having flashbacks to the last supper. things like that, i need 7 differences, so if you have seen the movie and have them or sites where i can find them please tell me. thankss

oh and just saying i watched the movie i just need help =]


Answers: i have to write a 2-4 page essay on whats historically wrong in the movie.....like say in the bible it didnt have jesus having flashbacks to the last supper. things like that, i need 7 differences, so if you have seen the movie and have them or sites where i can find them please tell me. thankss

oh and just saying i watched the movie i just need help =]

Oh shut up Davy Jones. How ignorant of you. You're evil actually.

Hi Sarah, don't worry about that stupid fool. He is reported.

Here is my answer:

Several theologians note that The Passion of the Christ significantly departs from its New Testament source. The reasons for the discrepancy, when known, vary, but tend to either reflect Gibson's personal belief, common representations, or artistic license.

* In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus crushes a serpent's head in allusion to Genesis 3:15 and the Protoevangelion.[23]

* A Temple guard, sent to arrest Jesus in the Garden, drops and suspends him from a small bridge, this is from The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, Chapter 3.

* Judas's suicide is provoked by children whose faces metamorphose, revealing them as demons. Acts 1:16–19 says he fell headlong and was disemboweled [24]; Emmerich, Chapter 14, says he fled as if a thousand furies were at his heel, and that Satan was beside him, provoking despair; and Matthew 27:3–8 says Judas hanged himself.

* Some Jews oppose the absence of the Sanhedrin quorum, challenging the trial's legitimacy, implying the Jewish priest leaders are treating Jesus illegally. Emmerich, Chapter 13, mentions similar events.

* When Jesus first appears before the Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Judea, the man he sees is bloodied. He asks the Sanhedrin if they customarily beat prisoners before trial, says Emmerich in Chapter 17.

* King Herod Antipas is an effeminate homosexual pederast, a stereotype common to medieval Passion plays; not so in the Gospels nor in Josephus's accounts, wherein he is a womanizer.

* Mary Magdalene, is the adulteress saved from stoning execution by Jesus. Her being the prototypical adulteress is neither Biblically supported nor Catholic dogma. Contemporary scholars argue that the adulterous woman passage is extra-biblical, hence a contentious subject among Traditionalist Catholics and others, within and without the Church.

* Pilate discusses with his wife his fragile relationship with Tiberius Caesar, emphasizing caesarean orders to avert Judean revolts, says Emmerich, Chapter 19. Matthew mentions only a message from Pilate’s wife, delivered while he hears the Christ case.

* Caiaphas answers Pilate's questions: What shall I do with this man?, et cetera, yet the Gospels only say his queries were answered by "the chief priests" and "the crowd" and "the Jews".

* Barabbas is called a murderer; the Gospels are inconclusive on his criminal identity. Matthew 27:16, John 18:40 identifies him as a robber, and Mark 15:7 and Luke 23:19 have him imprisoned for rioting and murder during the insurrection. Acts 3:14, written by Luke, identify Barabbas as a murderer.

* During the scourging, Jesus is nearly flayed alive; the gospels (Matthew 27:26, Mark 15:15, John 19:1), say only that he was scourged. However, Gibson placed the Isaiah 53:5 passage at the very beginning of the film, which is a Messianic prophecy; just before that, in Isaiah 52:14, Scripture states "His appearance was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men." (NASB translation)

* After the scourging, Mary wipes Jesus's blood with towels given her by Pilate’s wife, per Emmerich, Chapter 23.

* On the Via Dolorosa, Jesus is whipped by a soldier.
* A soldier debases Simon of Cyrene (who helped Jesus bear the cross), by calling him Jew. Only Simon’s name, place of origin, and his helping Jesus are in all three Synoptic Gospels, per Emmerich, Chapter 36.

* On the Via Dolorosa, the image of Jesus's face is imprinted to Veronica's Veil, an extra-biblical event that is Roman Catholic tradition; Emmerich, in Chapter 34, includes Veronica offering drink to Jesus.

* On the Via Dolorosa, Jesus thrice falls under the weight of the cross; Mary aids and comforts him. These extra-biblical events are of the Stations of the Cross tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, not Gospel. Yet Simon's Roman compulsion to help Christ bear the cross is Gospel. Emmerich describes seven falls and the encounters with Mary, in chapters 31–36.

* When Jesus’s right arm does not reach a cross nail hole, a soldier dislocates it from the shoulder by pulling it with a rope until the palm reaches the nail hole, per Emmerich, Chapter 38.

* After Jesus is nailed to the cross, but before it is raised, soldiers turn the Christ-bearing cross face-down, Jesus and the cross levitate above the ground, and, when turned face-up, it strikes the ground hard; a miracle showing God controls these events; only Mary Magdalene is witness.

* The names of the thieves crucified alongside the Christ, Dismas and Gesmas (also Gestas), are traditional, but extra-Scriptural, per Emmerich, Chapter 43, and the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, aka the Gospel of Nicodemus.

* The crucified thief who mocked Jesus is mercilessly pecked by a crow.

* Jesus builds a modern, four-legged table, one requiring chairs to sit at; Mary tells him it will never catch on. (This possibly was included for some sort of "comic relief" to balance the ultra-tense moments in the movie.)

* Caiaphas and his aide watch Christ's scourging.

* Satan (in womanly guise) rouses the rabble to shout: "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

* Satan is shown carrying a Demon baby during Christ’s flogging. Mel Gibson is reported to have said

"It's evil distorting what’s good. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old ‘baby’ with hair on his back. It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much – just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging him on his chest is shocking and almost too much, which is the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place."

* The earthquake described by Matthew split open the Temple down its the center, yet the Gospels report that only the curtain at the Holy of Holies was split. The Gospel of the Ebionites a theologically deviant version of Matthew's Gospel, reports that the Temple's lintel split. At the moment of Jesus's death, Nature unleashes her power, and Satan rages in Hell, because he has been defeated; the redemption is accomplished.

The fact Jesus is not a factual figure but a myth or legend makes this a very silly essay. The bible has some very odd stories and even says its ok to rape women as you won`t believe me get a bible and look at my link



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