"Evangelical churches are
currently the target of a massive campaign to sell them the video of
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. This "very Marian
film" (according to Mel) is based upon the Catholic ritual of the
Stations of the Cross as seen from the "perpetual Virgin
Mary's" point of view.
"It is being marketed to churches
exclusively by Zondervan Publishers and Fox Home Entertainment, which
are owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch (who also owns 20th Century
Fox Studios, Fox News, and Fox TV Network). For his huge contributions
to the Catholic Church and the Holy See, Murdoch received a Papal
Knighthood.
"Shouldn't we take heed to the
warning of Scripture that false teachers would arise and "bring
in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them . . . .
[and they will] make merchandise of you" (2 Pt 2:1,3)?"
T.A. McMahon
Executive Director The Berean Call TBC Today (email)
6/24/04
I continue to
be astounded as to the degree that professing Evangelical Christians are
being deceived by the media onslaught associated with this movie.
Roman
Catholicism teaches a false gospel of works that leads to eternal
hell!
Followers of
Jesus should be warning against this deception, not yoking with it and
endorsing it.
Evangelical
celebrities and clergymen of mega-churches were invited to elitist
pre-showings of the movie to make them feel important. Some of them even think
that they "advised" Mel Gibson about how he should recut the
movie. But it was about manipulation, power, prestige, and marketing
(including the merchandise... trinkets... nail necklaces).
Now, many many
Evangelicals think that it is the radical Christian thing to do to promote
and endorse this Catholic movie. What a great deception!
These types
of delusions will only get worse as we approach the end!
Lord Jesus
help us!
"...for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee."
2 Chronicles 20:12
"...When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."
Why are professing Evangelical
Christians so easily caught up in, and manipulated by, every worldly,
media driven, celebrity driven hype-fad-bandwagon?
My wife says that she does not want to
have "Hollywood's" grotesque imagery in her mind the rest of
her life as she desires to read God's word about our Lord Jesus
Christ.
God has chosen the foolishness of
preaching to save people, not intense emotional dramatic presentations
by people who don't even profess to trust in the Jesus of the Bible in
terms of the true Biblical Gospel.
The Roman Catholic and Easter Orthodox
systems have always produced icons and images of "God",
ascribing mystical powers to their images, and treating the images with
worshipful adoration.
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Revelation 17:1-6
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are
seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Revelation 17:9
And the woman which thou sawest is
that great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
If you see this film, evaluate whether the Gospel
is preached in a clear, understandable way. And if not, then pray for
wisdom as to why the film was produced at all.
"What
motivated Mel Gibson to make "The Passion of The
Christ"?"
A Book by Anne Catherine Emmerich - "(1774-1824),
a German Augustinian nun- mystic, stigmatist, visionary, prophet, and
victim soul who wrote The Delorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ."
- From "The Catholic Company" website
"What
motivated Mel Gibson to make "The Passion of The Christ"?
One of the reasons was this book that he accidentally stumbled upon;
it planted a seed in his mind and finally played a large role in
motivating him to make the film. While "The Passion of The
Christ" is based on the Gospels of the Bible, this book played an
instrumental role in Mel Gibson's motivation to make his new and
stunning masterpiece."
