Proclaiming the True Passion of Christ
Charles Terpstra critiques Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," arguing that the film blasphemously portrays Christ through human actors in violation of the second commandment and fails to communicate the true gospel of Christ's atoning sacrifice. The article defends Reformed convictions about Christology and warns Christians against the film's theological distortions.
Charles Terpstra “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just of the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” (I Peter 3:18). “To whom he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). The Mel Gibson film “The Passion of the Christ” purports to tell, by way of dramatic characters and images, the...