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While Latter-day Saints rarely use the term "the Passion of Jesus Christ," LDS theology holds that his atonement consists of the suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross, and his resurrection, Nelson said. Nelson said a major theme of John's Gospel was to refute the Greek teaching, which was contaminating the early church, that flesh is evil.ĭespite John's efforts, Nelson said, the early church, within a few hundred years, declared a definition of the Trinity that precluded the possibility that Christ was resurrected with a body of flesh and bone, as John had testified. "But Jesus Christ who was crucified came out of the tomb alive. "If that was the culmination of the so-called passion of Jesus Christ, Jesus would have been a footnote in history," Nelson said. Second, too many young members of his stake seemed to subscribe to the same view as Gibson, that the atonement of Jesus Christ took place solely on the cross. "The focus on the brutality really minimizes the real purpose for which the Gospel witnesses wrote their testimonies - to provide testimony of this supernal event," which includes the resurrection, Nelson said.
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He's heard enough about the movie to have two major reservations about Gibson's portrayal of the end of Jesus Christ's mortal ministry. "I haven't seen the film," Nelson admitted up front, "but I do applaud Mel Gibson for putting his money where his faith is." His portrayal of the LDS view of the Passion drew a large crowd, in part because he is the retired director of the evaluation division of the LDS Church's Correlation Department - which reviews all church-produced materials for doctrinal soundness - and because he grew up a Lutheran. Nelson took issue Monday with Gibson's film during a lecture on the first day of Brigham Young University's Campus Education Week. PROVO - As an LDS stake president, William Nelson was disturbed earlier this year by discussions with some members of his flock about Mel Gibson's hit movie "The Passion of the Christ."