Podcaster Joe Rogan released two episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” this week featuring guests discussing why they believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
On Jan. 7, Rogan released an episode with Christian apologist Wesley Huff, who is the Central Canada director for Apologetics Canada. And on Jan. 9, Rogan released an episode with Academy Award-winning actor and director Mel Gibson, who is known for the films “Braveheart,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Apocalypto,” and “The Passion of the Christ.”
During the episode with Gibson, Gibson and Rogan discussed several topics, including Christianity, the Catholic church, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Shroud of Turin, Gibson’s battle with addiction, and the sequel to “The Passion of the Christ.”
“There are big realms, spiritual realms. There’s good, there’s evil, and they are slugging it out for the souls of mankind,” Gibson told Rogan. Gibson said that his next film will tackle the question: “Why are we even important—little old, flawed humanity? Why are we important in that process where the big realms are slugging it out over us?”
“I think there’s bigger things at play here, and institutions that purport to touch on the divine are necessarily going to be affected by that slugfest that’s going on between good and evil,” Gibson added.
Rogan asked if Gibson had completed a script for the movie to which he was referring.
“Yeah,” Gibson replied, “it’s the resurrection story. But it’s not linear, because it’s hard to understand.”
“So it’s got to be put in a framework where you answer a few other questions as well, and you have to juxtapose the event itself against everything else, so that it makes some kind of sense in a bigger picture,” Gibson continued, “which is a hard thing to do, and it took my brother and I and a guy called Randall Wallace six years to write it.”
Rogan inquired if Gibson was using historians to help him accurately tell the story. While Gibson acknowledged that he was, he told Rogan that he regards the “gospels as history.”
“It’s a verifiable history. Some people say, ‘Well, it’s a fairy tale. He never existed.’ But he did,” Gibson stated. “And there are other accounts, verifiable historical accounts, outside the biblical ones, that also bear this up—that, yes, [Jesus] did exist.”
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