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2007-10-19 03:18:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The simple answer to your question is "No."
The deeper answer: It may draw interest, create a desire to research and pray. However, no movie or person will ever convert anyone. At the end of the day, only the Holy Spirit can touch a heart so deeply as to create a true conversion. That said, I would never put down any vehicle that would lead a person to open his heart to the possibility.
2007-10-19 04:21:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
i'd not evaluate the pastime as a mover created to remodel visitors to Christianity... really the different.. the skill of the rabble roused ... Gods and the lowly stand on slippery slopes alike ... and all that ... yet another movie, English, Jesus of Nazareth extra to existence the Christ of the Bible, starring Robert Powell, at the moment doing arise workouts with cohort Jasper Carrot .... might want to be construed as occupation step up on the ladder ... yet no, the gruesome americanisation and gore of The Christs very last hours left an indelible mark of loathing really than any inclination to attend church ... My concepts ...
2016-10-21 10:08:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say this movie really turned me off to Mel Gibson. It was so blatantly emotionally manipulative and overwrought. It was intended to whip the already believers into emotional overdrive of how great their savior was. Any religion could make a movie featuring their holy leader in some situation and use it to effect the same response. The movie was grossly violent yet you didn't hear religious groups getting in a huff about it in this case. Yet religious groups will boycott and try to ban movies that they think are sending the wrong message to viewers about their religion like the silly hype over the Dan Brown movie, Harry Potter, and also the upcoming Golden Compass movie. It all seems so propagandist and hypocritical to me.
2007-10-19 03:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
People believe what they want. I think that people who saw it were believers on some level. The movie impacted many who I know, but now that it is over, they are the same.
2007-10-19 03:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Indya M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any thinking person watching the picture soon realizes that it was grossly overdone . In one scene , the street was covered with blood , some in pools . Christ was covered with blood , then when Longinus stuck the spear in - - - out gushed a couple more quarts . Mel must have used four or five barrels of Hollywood " blood " for just that one scene .
Also , anyone who believes that Christ was God Almighty , would realize that Christ could have willed himself to feel nothing , while putting on a great act of suffering .
He couldn't do that ? Then he wasn't almighty ( able to do anything ) .
2007-10-19 03:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
It did make a difference in my husband. He was already attending church with me and our pastor suggested we go see it. He came out of the movie very angry. When I asked who he was angry with he told me "The Romans, The Pharisees, all of them, and ME! It's my fault just as much as it is theirs! He did that for ME! He did that because of ME!"
It was a lightbulb moment for him. At that point he really got it!
2007-10-19 04:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by usafbrat64 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is possible though I think it was more inclined to make people interested in the life of Christ and maybe read this in the Gospels.
2007-10-19 03:24:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
First of all if a person were to truly read the Bible this movie was not over done. They should do their home work about the cat of nine talis they beat Jesus with! There had to have been that much blood! I bought the Movie, My son brought several of his friends to my house to watch the Movie. He told them that his Mom (me) would be willing to explain anything they wanted to know about the Bible, Jesus, and God and why they crucified the Lord Jesus. Yes my son became a Moses of sort by bringing his friends over. My son is now a minister. He used to say things like "I don't want to go to church be cause you pushed it on me as a kid." Well lets say I took him to church with me.
2007-10-19 03:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Absolutely no difference. I felt sorry for Mary when they were whipping him, but any mother would. But religiously I felt absolutely nothing.
2007-10-19 04:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by River 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It was enough maybe to plant a seed. Maybe to educate. The rest was emotionalism
2007-10-19 03:23:54 · answer #10 · answered by christian_me 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋