Jesus Actor Hit by Lightning!

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Read the BBC story about Mel Gibson's movie actor and his shocking misadventure.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), May 22, 2004

Answers

Rod,

I WONDER what Jesus is saying by hitting Caviezel TWICE with lightning?!

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


Hi James. That was my first thought. Did you know that the people involved in the "Omen" also suffered more severe consequences? Decapitation, family deaths, and lion/tiger mauling/killing, to name a few.

rod

-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


Rod, it is perplexing.

MARTIN LUTHER HAD A SIMILAR INCIDENT :

"Martin Luther was traveling his way back to Erfurt from his parents' home and became caught in a violent thunderstorm. Luther was nearly struck by lightning and thrown to the ground." ~ Sullivan

MEL GIBSON IS A SCHISMATIC :

"Mel Gibson’s campaign to build a church in Malibu, California, raises some serious issues about the actor’s relationship with the Catholic Church.

“You can’t just build your own church,” Father Johnson says. Parishes are geographical entities, set up by bishops in conformance with the Church’s laws and subject to their authority. “There are no free- lance churches in the Catholic Church. You live in a parish, and you go to its church.” Every place in California is already part of a parish, which has its own church.

Gibson’s parish, then, would be the aptly named Our Lady of Malibu on Winter Canyon Road, Father Johnson says, looking through a Los Angeles Catholic directory. But, according to The New York Times Magazine, the actor’s privately funded Church of the Holy Family in Malibu is not affiliated with any diocese. So, according to Church law, it’s SCHISMATIC, NOT A CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ALL.

Gibson’s father, Houston, Texas resident Hutton Gibson, is an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church and a vocal adherent of the “sedevacantist” movement, so called from the Latin phrase meaning “empty seat”--their claim being that every pope since 1960 has been spurious." ~ Pangaeus

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


Ah!? That may explain some.

Did you notice his play with the priesthood in "Signs"? rod

-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


I heard that it's a must-see movie, haven't seen it yet though. What was the under/other-message?

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


"...under/other-message? "

Huh? I don't know.

-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


I meant his "play with the priesthood."

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


Gibson's Catholicism is showing in two of his movies that I've seen:"We Were Soldiers", "Signs". I suppose (my twisted opinion) that Gibson has set us up for his "Passion" movie with those prvious releases. He is getting us in the mood for a Catholic movie of sorts.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


Yep, I still will see the movie in February. When I saw how bloody the Way of the Cross was in the movie trailer ~ it really moved me.

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


I immediate response Rod and James is that Jesus is punishing the actor for being in this movie.

Counterexamples: Did Jesus punish Peter for being crucified like him according to tradition and the Gospel of John?

Did Jesus punish Saint Paul by having him stoned, beat up, ...everytime he entered a town?

Did Augustine died around the 5th century AD for being Catholic at the hands of the Vandals?

Was athanasius Church in Egypt destroyed in Egypt for being Catholic? (less than 500,000 members now. Most Christians belong to the Coptic Church, less than 10% of Egypt's people)

What was Pope Pius crime for being put in prison by Napoleon and dying there?

As you can see, also Catholics suffer.

Conclusion: not every punishment comes from God or Jesus.

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonval@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


Good point, Elpidio.

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.


James, remember that story in John which says who sinned , referring to the man Jesus cured. Jesus answered that neither he nor his parents sinned.

For the Jews, sin was the reason for epilepsy, blindness,...

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonval@yahoo.com), October 28, 2003.


Yep, I agree, Elpidio, God is the Arbiter of Sufferings ~ proven also in the Book of Job.

-- james (elgreco1541@hotmail.com), October 28, 2003.




-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), May 22, 2004.

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