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What did you think of the movie?

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Originally posted by vivify
What did you think of the movie?
Liked a large part of it

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Wait....wut?

The beating Christ endured was not that severe?

Do you read much about Roman floggings? More than likely Christ could not carry the cross up the hill because of those floggings and loss of blood.

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Originally posted by vivify
What did you think of the movie?
I think there is no way a normal human could endure all that and then still be alive, and have the strength left to carry that huge cross up that hill.
So it fails for me on that level. I know JC is supposed to be special, but if he has "supernatural" energy then the whole basis for his "trials" is limp and irrelevent

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Originally posted by whodey
Wait....wut?

The beating Christ endured was not that severe?

Do you read much about Roman floggings? More than likely Christ could not carry the cross up the hill because of those floggings and loss of blood.
Exactly. It would've meant more to me if it were more realistic... like if he just died while getting flogged with the cat o nine tails

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Where was god? Absent. It needed blood death sacrifice of its own offspring just to forgive humans for having been made to its own specifications. This is weird horrible stuff.

Only the gullible sweet buy it.

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Originally posted by vivify
What did you think of the movie?
When I was a Christian, I thought it wasn't as powerful as the Gospel texts and not as evocative as the fourteen Stations of the Cross that were gazed at and prayed over collectively by churchgoers for centuries.

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Originally posted by karoly aczel
I think there is no way a normal human could endure all that and then still be alive, and have the strength left to carry that huge cross up that hill.
So it fails for me on that level. I know JC is supposed to be special, but if he has "supernatural" energy then the whole basis for his "trials" is limp and irrelevent
As a human He went through all of that, maybe the movie didn't reflect the reality who knows. The description scripture gives is very brutal, if you feel Jesus didn't suffer properly for you to damn bad.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
As a human He went through all of that, maybe the movie didn't reflect the reality who knows. The description scripture gives is very brutal, if you feel Jesus didn't suffer properly for you to damn bad.
Do you believe that, with every "sin" a Christian commits, Jesus is crucified again?

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Originally posted by FMF
When I was a Christian, I thought it wasn't as powerful as the Gospel texts and not as evocative as the fourteen Stations of the Cross that were gazed at and prayed over collectively by churchgoers for centuries.
Funny, I remember when it came out and don't remember you claiming to be a Christian at the time.

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Originally posted by whodey
Funny, I remember when it came out and don't remember you claiming to be a Christian at the time.
If you remember when the film came out then you'll know it was a year before I joined this web site, so why would you think you would somehow "remember" what I was claiming and not claiming at the time? I don't think I posted on the Spirituality Forum much before 2010.

edit: divegeester beat me to it.

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Originally posted by whodey
Funny, I remember when it came out and don't remember you claiming to be a Christian at the time.
In what year did I finally stop claiming to be a Christian, do you remember?