The following articles have been written to deal with the recent issue of Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." The appalling and scandalous outpouring of support for this film from evangelicals and some professedly "Reformed" Christians and churches, necessitates that this issue be addressed. It is as if the Calvinist phase of the Great Protestant Reformation never happened. Evangelical and Reformed Christians alike are behaving as if the second commandment had been repealed, and as if the heroic sacrifices of their forefathers in delivering them from Roman Catholic idolatry and image worship had never occurred. And when they are challenged they respond with the same foolish and unscriptural excuses that the early Popes used to defend these practices, against those who would continue the simple worship of the Apostolic Church and the Early Christian Church. They quickly have on their lips the same evasions that the Catholics and the Lutherans threw at the Calvinists during the Reformation. Most deplorable of all, is that their understanding of scripture, particularly the meaning and the requirements of the second commandment, have been corrupted to a Romish or a Lutheran interpretation. If you are concerned about this, or at least interested in this issue please read the following articles.

The Passion and the Christ: A Review of Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ," indicating what Christ would think of this film. It includes a scriptural and confessional review of the principle involved, as well as an examination of the motives and theology of the film's producer and leading actor.

Images of Christ: An article showing from scripture, historic Reformed confessions and catechisms, and from Reformed theologians, why it is unscriptural to make any image of deity, including images of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Turretin On the Second Commandment: An extract from Turretin's systematic theology, expounding the meaning of the second commandment. Turretin was one of the greatest of the Reformed theologians. He taught in the Genevan Academy for thirty years in the middle of the seventeenth century. Robert Lewis Dabney, who Charles Hodge called "the greatest living teacher of the Reformed faith," used Turretin's systematic theology when he was Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia during the middle of the nineteenth century.