Mel Gibson's Jesus movie

[Valandil]

Originally posted by brownjenkins
from the way i read the bible story it wasn't anyone's "fault"... it was kind of part of the plan that christ died... if anything he was killed by "mankind"... jc also was a jew technically

That's exactly correct! Blaming Jews for the crucifiction of Christ is wrong-headed... even if the Jewish leaders who called for His crucifiction were indeed in the wrong, they were not merely representing Jews, but they were representing all mankind, who sentenced Christ to death by our sins - in the Christian viewpoint. The wrong that they were doing... God knew that they would do it, and He worked that into His Plan. We could say that they were 'playing into his hands' - but that over-simplifies the case. God was intent on redeeming mankind to Himself, knew how people would react to any given plan - and chose the best.