Nick's Testomonial (User Submitted)

"The Passion Of Christ and the Suffering of the Agony in the Garden"

Did Gibson do a good job of transmitting it?

In many ways, Mel Gibson did and did not transmit the true suffering that Jesus went through in his most holy suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane.I believe that in some ways he did an excellent job showing the intense struggle between the forces of sin, the devil, and God's plan, Jesus Christ the Savior.However, I also believe that he could have done better in showing the other pains that the Christ went through. One suffering of Christ, the physical pain that came from ebery sin ever commited, was shown very thoughtfully and very clearly throughout the whole scene. There was also another suffering, the fact that he knew that people not return his love for them, despite the total sacrifice that he had made for them. This truly was a pain for Christ, because Christ's love is like the Father's, and the love of God is so intense, so amazing that we could never begin to understand the depths of it. Imagine loving someone so deeply, so wonderfully, that you would literally do anything for them, and then them not even wanting to acknowledge your existence when you stand right in front of them. That was christ's suffering, but only tenfold, in a way we can never know. Finally, Christ"