(lol)well, not lol, it actually left me with a case of spirtual indigestion, on two counts, the only time somebody was branded a "christian", they were usually a 'romanist', and portrayed as either a whining sniveling coward, or as an insane homicidal maniac torturing pagans in a dungeon....AND "Arthur" was supposedly a God fearer, who kept yammering about Pelagious....(Ron..please comment..or add!)Arthur went on and on about Pelagious, but zero about Jesus, or "the Christ", the only time the word "Christian" was used was in conjunction with these FREAKS.Boy o boy, I tell ya, even though Mel is in bondage to Rome, it must have drove the devil NUTS to see the success of the Passion. My only complaint about the Passion is that, you should only watch it ONCE, any more than that, I BELIEVE one risks de-sensitizing themselves to the enormity and the horror of the Cross on the Messiah, the Lamb of God.I must recommend that if you want to watch a movie about the Christ (repeatedly) get the recently released "The Gospel of John"......oh btw, heres a brief paste-up of the Pelgian heresy:Pelagius was a British monk, possibly from Scotland or perhaps Ireland. He was highly educated, in Latin, Greek and theology and as a monk was devoted to practical asceticism. In the last years of the 4th century Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman empire and many of dubious faith and questionable morals had entered the church. Pelagius was an ardent exhorter of men to live a holy life and was appalled at the excuses that he encountered: "It is hard!; it is difficult!; we are not able!; we are men!". To this Pelagius response was: "Oh, blind madness! We accuse God of a twofold ignorance — that He does not seem to know what He has made, nor what He has commanded — as if forgetting the human weakness of which He is Himself the Author, He has imposed laws on man which He cannot endure." It seems that Pelagius was first provoked into controversy by Augustine’s prayer: "Give what thou commandest, and command what thou wilt". Augustine’s appeal to the grace of God merely gave greater justification for those who sought to excuse their sinful behaviour. At the heart of Pelagianism is the belief in unconditional free-will and moral responsibility; central to his theology is the denial of the doctrine of original sin.
