👉🏻 link: https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/421006615
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“Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood.
Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now." Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.”
During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting.
His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two open heart surgeries after the filming production.
Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.”
Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened.
Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love."
Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children.
One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity.
Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage.
The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million.
More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world.
Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project.
Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.
I think for all Christians the hard party about watching that movie is the understanding of what Jesus went through, because of what I've done, because of my sins.
I get frustrated sometimes when I hear how the Romans crucified Him, or the Jews crucified Him. No...... It wasn't them, it was me.
I stood in the crowd calling for Him to be crucified. I swung the whip that brutalized His body, I swung the hammer that nailed Him to the Cross. And I cast lots for His garments just before I thrust a spear in His side. I did all of that, and have still sinned knowing He bore the weight of those sins.
Yeah, the hardest part at least for me when watching that movie is knowing I was the cause of all that pain and suffering. But even through all of that, also understanding the depths of that Love He had for me and knowing He would do it again "For God so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life"
Peace
Reminds me of when I have heard people bring up the story of Adam and Eve and say something like “if only they had never eaten of the fruit” or “how could they do that? I wouldn’t have disobeyed if I were them” and they don’t even realize that we are them and are absolutely no better.
The Atonement of the Christ freed all mankind from the Fall of Adam. To say that we are born in sin is a manmade guilt trip.. We grow in sin and rationalize it as normal, to be free of sin through Christ's Atonement is fairly rare in this fallen world, and I have experienced it in my conversion.
You have to accept it in order to be washed from His blood. The rest go to hell. Read your Bible, you clearly disagree with the Word of God if you think we are born without sin. How could you possibly agree with some of the Bible then choose to not believe others? That is so wicked and man-centered, trying to be wise in your own eyes.
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Being-Born-In-Sin
Man made rules to foster guilt and control the masses; Jesus the Christ's Atonement alone frees mankind from the Fall of Adam. Who are you to pass judgement on me when you do NOT know where I am coming from?? TBS, I do not feel the need to explain myself to you, your hostility speaks volumes to me..
Amen
No one killed Him. He died of His own will. Also, His greatest suffering was in the garden.
Not so sure about that. I think His greatest suffering was on the cross when He asked God why He had forsaken Him. I don't know, only speculation, but I think that is when God the Father laid all the sins of the world on Jesus, and because He was then full of OUR sin, God had to look away as He cannot bear the sight of sin. Look at it this way, it's also the only time Jesus was without the Presence of God the Father during His earthly ministry and had the be unbearable, just at the time He really needed God the Father the most. JMHO...
I think you are spot-on. And I cannot imagine the agony of bearing that burden, at that point in time, without God the Father's help. Poor Jesus...we are so undeserving.
Blood from every pore in the garden? I’ve also heard He suffered all for all sons and pains twice. Once on the garden, once on the cross. He can tell us when we get there 🤓
The Garden of Gethsemane was the realization of ALL the sins in the world He would be taking on-He sweat blood and had a ministering angel comfort Him just before the betrayal and arrest. Many things He said at the end fulfilled ancient prophecies and indeed He made ALL things new..