{"id":42383,"date":"2025-01-17T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=42383"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:03:50","slug":"mel-gibson-calls-bible-verifiable-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/01\/mel-gibson-calls-bible-verifiable-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson Calls Bible \u201cverifiable history\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42380\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/01\/mel-gibson_credit-Featureflash-Photo-Agency-Shutterstock_Inset-Adobe-stock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42380\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/01\/mel-gibson_credit-Featureflash-Photo-Agency-Shutterstock_Inset-Adobe-stock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Featureflash Photo Agency \/ Shutterstock | Inset: Adobe stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actor Mel Gibson joined Joe Rogan on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rYtrS5IbrQ\">The Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>\u201d where he touched on a myriad of topics, including filming his faith blockbuster \u201cThe Passion of the Christ,\u201d his own personal faith, and Scripture. Gibson discussed the pushback he faced while making \u201cPassion,\u201d including his issues with getting someone to distribute the film due to its faith-based subject matter. \u201cI think, if you ever hit on that subject matter, you\u2019re going to get people going because, of course, it\u2019s a big subject matter. The idea was that we\u2019re all responsible for this, that His sacrifice was for all mankind, and that for all our ills and all the things in our fallen nature. It was a redemption, so, you know, and I believe that,\u201d he said. Gibson famously <a href=\"https:\/\/media.benedictine.edu\/passion-of-the-christ-stations-of-the-cross\">filmed his own hands<\/a> nailing Jesus, portrayed by Jim Caviezel, to the cross.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson stated that Hollywood is particularly hostile towards Christianity because \u201cfor whatever reason that represents like white, male, colonialism, whatever it represents, it&#8217;s negative.\u201d \u201cPassion\u201d drew in over $370 million on a $30 million budget, most self-funded by Gibson himself. For Gibson, however, the film was personal. \u201cI was born into a Catholic family. I&#8217;m very Christian in my beliefs. I do actually believe this stuff to the full. He called the Gospel accounts \u201cverifiable history\u201d and praised the disciples, who lost their life for their faith. \u201cEvery single one of those guys died rather than deny their belief. Nobody dies for a lie,\u201d he said. The actor also pushed back against the idea of evolution. \u201cI don\u2019t really go for it. Anything left to itself without some kind of intelligence behind it will devolve into chaos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan, a self-proclaimed agnostic who it the past had seemed more hostile toward Christianity, has been promoting more people with open Christian faiths. Recently, Rogan hosted apologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HwyAX69xG1Q&amp;t=4s\">Wes Huff<\/a>. Prior to appearing on Rogan, Huff had earned praise after taking on claims from self-proclaimed expert in ancient writings, Billy Carson. Huff, himself an expert in ancient writings, refuted many of Carson\u2019s claims against Carson himself while appearing on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7ngjtT43-4\">Elevating Beyond<\/a>\u201d podcast. During the podcast with Rogan, Huff underlined the authenticity of the Scriptures, particularly how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls helped to further verify the infallibility of the Scriptures. He also discussed similarities between the Gospel accounts. \u201cConsider how difficult it would be for someone living outside of the locations and times that these events took place to get the right names with the right qualifiers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have four Biblical Gospels with four different authors, and yet each gets this test of naming frequency and attribution right every time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Mel Gibson joined Joe Rogan on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d where he touched on a myriad of topics, including filming his faith blockbuster \u201cThe Passion of the Christ,\u201d his own personal faith, and Scripture. Gibson discussed the pushback he faced while making \u201cPassion,\u201d including his issues with getting someone to distribute the film due&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":42380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-christian-celebrity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mel Gibson Calls Bible \u201cverifiable history\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/01\/mel-gibson-calls-bible-verifiable-history.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mel Gibson Calls Bible \u201cverifiable history\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Actor Mel Gibson joined Joe Rogan on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d where he touched on a myriad of topics, including filming his faith blockbuster \u201cThe Passion of the Christ,\u201d his own personal faith, and Scripture. 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