The Passion of the Christ

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The Passion of the Christ
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Thu, 02-26-2004 - 12:58am
Has anyone been able to see it yet?

I knew it would be opening big, but I was surprised to find out this morning that one of the local 20-plexes was showing it to sold out crowds on every screen from 6:30 this morning to around 11:00 when their usual lineup started and The Passion only continued on a few screens.

I've been reading incredibly moving reactions to it like this one in National Review--

"THE PASSION IN HARLEM

I just got out of a screening at the Magic Johnson Theatres up at 123rd and Frederick Douglass in Harlem. The theatre was packed, with an audience that was about 85 percent black, and included many seniors (of course: daytime). The response to the film was just about universal: Loud applause at the end, and vocal endorsements of the movie as we exited. One sweet elderly lady, I’d say about 80 years old, was shaking her head on the way out, saying: “If you read the Bible, that’s exactly what happened.” Another woman, in her 30s, was brushing away tears. “It’s not the movie,” she said,” it’s the reality of the thing.” During the screening, the man I set next to—a guy in his 20s, tall, strong, and vigorous-looking, nobody’s wimp—gasped at some of the cruelties inflicted on Jesus. (When Jesus’ cross is turned over on its face so He can be nailed to it more securely, this man blurted out, “Oh, s***, that’s too much.”) Before the movie started, there was a little film in which Magic Johnson explained the rules for his theatres: “No talking. . . . No hats or colors . . . . If you have a problem on the street, don’t bring it inside.” I couldn’t help thinking: There is a problem on the street, every street, and this movie is about the solution."

I wanted to see it this weekend, but now the local news is reporting that virtually every showing in Dallas through the weekend is already sold out, so now I have to wait til next Saturday.

Renee

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Mon, 03-08-2004 - 3:39pm
An eye for the eye if read in the whole context was in reference to their legal code and was a part of the consequences of capital punishement. Ex 21 speaks of this. Especially when it comes to physical assulats. As it is also pointed to in Deut 19, again capital offenses and the punishment for breaking the laws. Again Lev. 24 is another example of punishment under the law.

JESUS HAS NEVER NOR WOULD HE EVER CORRECT THE OLD TESTMENT SINCE IT IS ALSO THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TRUTH. PLEASE READ JOHN 1....IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD...

The verse in Matthew points to being merciful in the law. An example, someone hits you you have the choice to press assult charges or walk away in forgiveness. He did not correct the Law nor did He ever ever undermine God's Words in the Old Testment. Christ fulfilled the law. He never abolished it.

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Mon, 03-08-2004 - 3:56pm

 


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Mon, 03-08-2004 - 4:00pm

I understand the nature the example was given for, but the poster I responded to was probably looking at it from a person on the street being hit by someone else.

Tonya
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Mon, 03-08-2004 - 11:15pm
So-called Biblical contradictions fall in to a few different categories such as mistranslations and textural errors, idiomatic references taken literally, cultural references or viewpoints that are misunderstood, bad history, and our ethnocentric ideas imposed on another era & culture.

Taken as one unified work of a supernatural author, instead of 66 books by 40 different authors over thousands of years, it is a beautifully unified whole.

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/b08.html

http://www.apologeticspress.org/rr/abdiscr/abdiscr.htm

http://www.ldolphin.org/bibleinterp.html

http://www.ldolphin.org/flank.html

http://www.khouse.org/6640/gettingstarted/BP007.html

http://www.khouse.org/6640/gettingstarted/BP027.html

Renee

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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 9:22am
Hallelujah!
Tonya
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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 10:47am

You, I quote..........


>"Biblical contradictions fall in to a few different categories such as mistranslations and textural errors, idiomatic references taken literally, cultural references or viewpoints that are misunderstood, bad history, and our ethnocentric ideas imposed on another era & culture. "<


From my post 6140.125.........


>"MO many meanings &

 


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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 3:56pm
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No because if you dig into the so-called contradictions, they can be resolved when taken in context or by going to the original language or the oldests texts, looking into the culture or language of the time, digging into the archeological record, & so forth.

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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 4:01pm

No because if you dig into the so-called contradictions, they can be resolved when taken in context or by going to the original language or the oldests texts, looking into the culture or language of the time, digging into the archeological record, & so forth.


Actually, you are all saying the same thing.

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Tue, 03-09-2004 - 11:20pm
Thanks for Helper

 


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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 12:38am

Ummm, no, not really.
Someone said there were contradictions, another said there was not.


There are no contradictions in the text, even the so-called contradictions.
Because if you sit down, and read the bible, and not pick one verse and stick it under a microscope and say "ahhh, that says that", then one would understand that there are no contradictions.


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