| March 18, 2004 a tardy “Passion” review and some thoughts --I had originally planned for a three part review/reflection of “The Passion of the Christ” but my motives have changed. I still may publish the three part thing on my website at a later time, especially after I see the movie again*, but for now I just offer this excerpt from “Mere Christianity”. It basically sums up what “The Passion” and Jesus is all about. I guess my EbbWorld “motto” deserves manifestation now more than ever, and please, if you decide to see this movie, and I really hope and encourage you to do so, exercise this suggestion at your fullest potential. No matter what you decided about the Christ, at least you can tell me you decided something... I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” -C.S. Lewis ...make your own conclusions... *I hope to start a “church” one day whereby every Sunday people just come over my house or whatever, and instead of going to “church” we just watch “The Passion of the Christ” every week. Dialog of Scripture, pursuit of truth, and feelings would be discussed afterwards. That would be fellowship my friends...that would be church... ...and I will name that church...... The Church of the Dropouts, the Losers, the Sinners, the Failures, and the Fools |