“The other aspect of that is that all the evangelists, the apostles, who went out there, every single one of those guys died rather than deny their belief. And nobody dies for a lie, nobody,” Gibson said.
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Gibson explained he is setting out to create the sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” to show that “nobody dies for a lie.”
“The resurrection is the one that is the most difficult for people swallow,” Rogan said. “That’s the one that requires the most faith.”
Gibson interjected, “The most faith and the most belief. Who gets back up three days later, after he gets murdered in public? Who gets back up under his own power? Buddha didn’t do that sh*t.”
Rogan asked Gibson what brought him to believe in Jesus’ resurrection.
“I think, as a child, you know, one accepts things on faith,” Gibson answered. “As a child, you learn these things and you accept them on faith. And I still have that faith, but as I got older, I came to it through intellect and through reading and putting things together in accounts, and then occurrences in my own life.”
Gibson mentioned new discoveries regarding the Shroud of Turin as evidence of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
“It depicts a first century Hebrew male, because the hairstyle was from the first century. He was about six feet tall. He was completely scourged all over his body. He was crucified,” Gibson said. Gibson argued that some archeologists have dated the shroud to the first century.
“But that’s not the only reason I buy it. There’s other logical reasons why I believe,” said Gibson. “I don’t think it’s any secret I am flawed in the fact that I am, by nature, born an alcoholic.”
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“I did drugs, I did alcohol, and there was nothing that could stop me from doing that. Nothing. So I was really kind of on a downhill run,” Gibson continued. “So I regard the fact that I was able to appeal to something greater than myself to help me and actually stopped me doing that.” He added, “I think that’s a miracle.”
