If God could have made salvation possible for us some other way, why would he choose the way of so much blood, so much pain, so much agony? Wouldn’t something less frightful have been better? Then, as now, Christians seemed to face a dilemma. should become man by putting on a human soul and flesh, becoming mortal so he could endure death?’” “There are those,” the bishop wrote, “who say, ‘What? Did God have no other way to free men from the misery of this mortality? No other way than to will that the only-begotten Son. Sixteen centuries ago, when Augustine addressed the matter, he noted that he was not the first person even back then to discuss it. And for at least some Christians, the ghastly violence of the movie has raised a significant issue: Did Christ have to suffer as he did to accomplish our salvation? Or could that purpose have been achieved another way? Defenders replied that the historical event being portrayed was in fact grisly, so the portrayal could not be sanitized if it was to remain faithful to the subject matter.įor both opponents and supporters, the film has served as a reminder that Jesus’ Passion was a horrifying affair. Critics complained that the scenes of Christ’s torture and death were too grisly. One debate focused on the bloodiness of the movie. Long before its scheduled release on Ash Wednesday of this year, Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ stirred sharp controversy.
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