Temptation Of Christ Comparison

The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ In the movies, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ, they both portrayed a different view of what Christ went through leading up to and including his crucifixion. The Last Temptation of Christ is a controversial adaption of Christ's crucifixion based on a fictional book of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. The director, Scorsese, uses an alternate version that places more emphasis on the human being and earthly desires of Christ as a man while His divinity is taken for granted. It starts out with Scorsese almost making a mockery of Christ's life as being a man who makes crosses for criminals to be crucified upon. Christ suffers from doubt, uncertainty,
In the movie, Christ tells Judas that humanity and God will not be united unless He dies and there will be no redemption unless it happens. The movie shows Christ seeking answers from God but struggling to hear God while fighting temptations and deception by Satan. It follows through His trials and tribulations, baptism, teachings, and miracles until the time of His persecution and crucifixion. The movie doesn't show anything to do with His resurrection but Christ does state that He will rise again after three days. This does show the dual substance of Christ as human and divine. In the movie, salvation is depicted by Jesus' suffering and death which saves humanity from sin. This entailed Jesus, as a human, overcoming and resisting temptation and choosing to be faithful and to surrender to what God had designed Christ for and what God wanted of
This is evident when He stands up after the first scourging and then He is on His feet and carrying His cross after the second more intense and brutal scourging. The movie shows from the beginning Christ knows who He is and what He has to do although He does ask God to let it pass over Him but only if it is God's will. In a flashback ,Christ tells a crowd of followers that no one takes His life from Him, only He has the power to lay down His life of His own accord and the power to take it up again by His Father's command. Shortly after His death, the earth shakes and the temple cracks in half and those who did not believe before that Christ was the Messiah came to believe, which was evident by the high priest breaking down and