The Christ I Love

August 2, 2006 — Elizabeth

**If you had visited this blog during the last few hours, you may have read this post embedded in the Mel Gibson thread. It is a post I’ve had in mind for some time. It is not long, but I thought it deserved its own page so here it is.**

The Christ I Love

My faith in Jesus can neither be repudiated nor validated by any movie. The entire concept is ridiculous. I love, and believe, in the Living Christ. I’ve never seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and probably never will. Neither have I seen, nor will I see, “The Da Vinci Code”. Both are irrelevant to me; they can neither add nor take away from who He is and from my faith in Him.

I resent the notion that only a real Christian would appreciate Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”, and I resent having my faith questioned simply because I never saw it. I was already a Christian long before “The Passion”, and my relatioship with Jesus Christ will endure anything pretending to be reality on celluloid. Besides, how can those who make the judgement as to who is a real Christian and who isn’t, judge one who appreciates the movie but is an atheist, or one who is Christian but didn’t like it?

The Christ I love is the Christ revealed in the Holy Scriptures which is inspired by God. Any Christ that is a deviation from the Scriptural yardstick is a false Christ, whether presented on the pulpit or on film. I’m familiar with the story presented in the Da Vinci Code. The Jesus presented therein is about as far removed from the real Christ as sin is from a pure heart. And I truly believe that the only way one can honestly know about Jesus is to prayerfully read the Bible. It reveals Him in a way that no film can.
God bless you.

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Mel Gibson

August 2, 2006 — Elizabeth

Mel Gibson gave an apology when he was arrested for drunk-driving and had a meltdown last week. He said he didn’t mean what he said. And that he was drunk. Oh. Well. No surprise there. There should no longer be any doubt that he feels what he feels, given his carefully-chosen Holocaust-denier statement in the past:

Many people died in World War II and some of them were Jews.

He hates Jews, gets drunk and expresses it, then apologize the next day? Who is he kidding?? Are we supposed to believe that he’s only a bigot when he’s soused?
And now this; look at the first sentence on the final paragraph. Maybe he is manic-depressive. So what? It doesn’t excuse him.

I may have had a little bit more respect for him if he had just accepted responsibility for his words rather than hide behind being drunk. He takes the time to single out the deputies in his apology, but never once mentioned the Jews? Personally I believe he was apologizing for getting caught!

UPDATE~~ Mel Gibson issues another apology, this time to the Jewish community, and reaches out to them. Okay. He did apologize specifically to the Jews, and as an adult  he’s dealing with the consequences of his words. But I believe that it will take more than just today’s words; it will take time, and whether or not these words bear fruit. Or I suppose we’ll know on his next drunken meltdown.

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