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It was a Rabbi who stirred up the problems with Mel. My guess is that he is just as spiritually dead as his forefathers and would rather stick with his traditions than to deal with the truth. After all, Jesus said it is the traditions of men that make the Word of God of no effect.
posted by
whimsystoryteller
on December 12, 2005 at 6:57 PM
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Actually, I think Mel has
publicly disagreed with his father but he just doesn't spend time focused on that. His job with Passion of the Christ was to depict the last 12 hours of Jesus's life on earth up through the crucifixion and do it as close to the real thing as possible, which he did. The problem is that most of the world doesn't want to see the reality of what Jesus went through because they don't want to deal with their sin.
The Jewish people especially don't want to believe Jesus was the Messiah because their tradition has taught that the Messiah was coming back as a ruler. The problem is that they left out the part of the prophecy that talks about the crucifixion.
Many of the Christmas songs say "I wish we would have known" in reference to who Jesus was. Well, there were people who knew when He came that He is the Messiah because they had studied the scriptures and they listened to the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, the Jewish leaders who were the scholars of the Torah were not very spiritual. In fact, they were spiritually dead. They had become so "law" minded that they knew nothing of the way of God and His mercy and His love.
All that the Jewish leaders of those days cared about was their positions in the community, money and power. Much like many people in this day and age. If Jesus came today without fanfare, I don't think a lot of people would know Him because even those who are saved don't spend enough time in His presence to know Him face to face. It's like the two disciples who were walking along the road after the resurrection and he began to walk and talk with them. They didn't know who He was until He revealed Himself to their hearts and then He disappeared to keep from damaging their faith. He didn't want them to focus on their five senses but on their trust in God and His Word, which aren't visible.
Most people don't understand that the invisible things of God are more real than the natural things of earth and in order to triumph in this world as a Christian, we have to keep our eyes on God and His Word, not on our circumstances.
Enough of the sermon. Talk to you later.
posted by
whimsystoryteller
on December 12, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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I think that part of the problem...
...is that some Jews aren't comfortable with the fact that not only does Mel's father think that the Holocaust never happened but, also, that Mel isn't publically disagreeing with him.
Somehow, I think there's more to the story than that.
Surely Mel's dad knows that the Holocaust happened and just might believe that it wasn't as widespread or caused as many deaths as it was rumored to have caused.
Mel certainly acknowledges that it took place by the simple fact that he believes in this movie enough to make it. Mel doesn't do any project that he doesn't believe in.
And calling someone anti-Semantic for truthfully recounting history is ridiculous.
I think that this is thinly-veiled persecution of a good Christian--furthermore, I think that the person who got some of the Jews riled up over this might not even be Jewish but, instead, one of these anti-God people of the type who would like to see "under God" removed from the pledge, Christmas trees and Nativity scenes removed from schools and government buildings, and astronauts prohibited from reading Scripture over their radios out in space!
What do you think?
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posted by
Ainsley_Jo_Phillips
on December 11, 2005 at 7:28 PM
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