"The Passion of The Christ Offers an Unprecedented Cultural Opportunity

for you to Spread, Strengthen, and Share the Catholic Faith

"The Passion of The Christ offers an unprecedented cultural opportunity for you to spread, strengthen, and share the Catholic faith with your family and friends. Unlike any other, this movie will inspire hearts and change minds. And it will evoke questions."

How SAD...that many sleeping Christians are running to buy up tickets to see it...to enjoy it, rather than to discern it. Check out http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1285.cfm for an in-depth report on the illuminismc and satanism within the Catholic Church. The movie is just another way the Lord will use to make manifest who is of Him and who is not. It's all a part of the Babylonish system! A little leaven leavens the whole lump... the mixture makes it all poisonous.

How the true Lord Jesus Christ is missed. The occultic spirit is powerfully at work in drawing people away from our true Lord and Savior as revealed to us from His Word and Spirit. "He who is not with Me (the revealed Jesus Christ) is against Me, and he that gathers not with Me scatters abroad."

There already is a division within the Body of Christ on this but we know that this is the way it is thru the ages. May we continue to be strong and earnestly contend for THE FAITH that was once for all delivered unto the saints! Jude 3 Let us stand by, with, and for the Truth, the True Jesus Christ and not another! Valiant for the Truth, D

To Believer's -

Many of you will relate to the problem I have in regards to viewing some movies with Christian content. For the life of me, I still 'see' Charlton Heston as Moses and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife. I saw that movie umpteen years ago and I still have the 'picture' in my mind. I have been able to separate that image from reality but every once in awhile it drifts into my mind's eye again. This is the reason I'm very careful about movies depicting Biblical themes and I am convicted that that is one of the reasons that God commanded us not to make any graven images. He created us and he knows what will happen in our minds. That's the number one reason I won't go and see the Film. D in Canada

Peter Boyer s article based on his interview with Mel Gibson continues as follows. "When I saw the film there was a 30 minute Question and Answer time with Mel Gibson. There were no questions asked about the mystic writings. However who would have had time to know about that? There were no questions (even by me) about the added scenes with Mary, and how that might be related to differences in Catholic and Protestant theology. However that could have been graciousness. And there were no questions to Mel Gibson's statements about people coming to Christ even during the shooting of the film.

My real concern comes because these issues are for the most part ignored by the Evangelical leaders and writers. This film is being marketed as being a great evangelistic tool. But salvation to what? And from what? The gospel is not plainly given in the film. As someone familiar with the truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with the Biblical writings, I knew that Jesus was taking the punishment that I deserve for my sins. For someone who is unfamiliar, I do not know what they will make of it.

Hopefully many will read the Bible (in a decent translation) and there be drawn by God to place there faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Hopefully this new tool will not be used to play upon people s subjectivities and yield false conversions.

Another major concern I have relates to the marketing/advertising angle on this film. The company handling Gibson for this also has other clients (some part of Campus Crusade for Christ and other Evangelical organizations). (My documentation on this is inaccessible at this time) S.C.

An excerpt from 'The Jesus War' by Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker, September 15, 2003 (pp 58 71)

I am typing from page 71: We talked of the nature of Gibson s faith, and I asked him about an aspect of Vatican II which had not been much discussed in the debate over his film. One of the council's most significant acts was its Decree on Ecumenism, which declared that all Christians, even those outside the Catholic Church, have the right to be called Christian; the children of the Catholic Church accept them as brothers. This effectively overturned the Catholic notion that the only true course to salvation was through the Catholic Church.

I told Gibson that I am a Protestant, and asked whether his pre-Vatican II world view disqualified me from eternal salvation. He paused. There is no salvation for those outside the Church, he said. I believe it. He explained, Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She s a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's, like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. Ant it's not fair if she doesn t make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it.

With that, Gibson excused himself, and headed toward the galley of the plane, where an attendant had laid out supper.

[EDnote: this statement by Dwight is my immediate concern also: "I am also concerned that the Christian community will now run in hoards to the book stores and start reading/studying Catholic books such as Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich's "The Dolorous Passion." Already the web is filled with mention of this book in relation to the film.]

Another comment from D. in Canada

Do you think the Christian community is being setup/hoodwinked by Mel Gibson's new "The Passion" film.
I guess I am becoming either jaded or the discernment is beginning to kick in early...lolololo

I must admit I am very concerned about the numerous potential Catholic spin off's that might occur because of this movie. I pray this movie does not help the ongoing promotion of the supposed Queen of Heaven... As you know Mary was never to be seen as a "Co-Redemptrix."

I am also concerned that the Christian community will now run in hoards to the book stores and start reading/studying Catholic books such as Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich's "The Dolorous Passion."

For the likes of me... I just can not believe that God would commission a catholic nun (that promotes Co-Redemptrix blasphemy) to experience and write about a vision of Christ's death. We already have the Word of God to teach us of Christ's sufferings and thus the Word is sufficient for the description of Christ's death.

Our other problem is that Mr. Gibson is proclaiming to world that the Holy Spirit led him to produce this movie and that he was also inspired by Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich's (1774 - 1824), (a mystic, stigmatist and visionary) book titled: The Dolorous Passion.' I'm of the opinion that the Holy Ghost does not co-habitat with mystics and promoters of a "Co-Redemptrix." Mary. Why would the Holy Ghost need the help of a Mystic and her writings to produce a movie? The scripture "what does light have in common with darkness" comes to mind and my answer is nothing!

It has been stated that towards the end of Sister Anne's life she ate no food (save Communion), and was in ecstasy a great deal of the time. It was during these ecstasies that she witnessed in vision the details of Our Lord's life which are recorded in her book. I would suggest that her visions were from the lack of food and water plus from opening herself to non biblical demonic experiences thus her vision was delusionary and not Holy Spirit inspired. Sister Anne is also know for bearing the wounds of Christ. There is no biblical data to support such manifestations thus I propose that these holes in her hands are caused by her association with demonic activity and non biblical belief systems. Or maybe she really did not bear the holes and the report is just another lie like most of the fatima demonstrations and reports.
D aka defender
Canada