New Bible Series Premiering on March 3rd

[TRUTH281]

I'm not sure if yall will want to watch this but there is a new Bible Series show coming on the History Channel. 10 hour series for 5 episodes this month. Producer Mark Burnett considers this the "most important" project he has ever undertaken. It premiers tomorrow night on Sunday. I'm surprised this is even coming out on the History Channel. Although I'm not sure how accurate the reenactments are going to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hThfoBzWxw

Jake

[Dennis Vogel]

Probably good television but most likely full of errors.

If it's anything like Hollywood has produced before the underlying message will be that religion is evil. But maybe not. We'll see.

[longhorn]

Thanks but no thanks.  My time would be more productive and better spent pulling ticks off my dogs butt.

Longhorn

[indianabob]

Hi Longhorn,
I take it from your message that your dog runs loose a lot. 
Or perhaps not. Maybe you run with the dog in which case you are picking up ticks as well.
So how is that going?

Friend Indiana Bob

[TRUTH281]

Probably good television but most likely full of errors.

If it's anything like Hollywood has produced before the underlying message will be that religion is evil. But maybe not. We'll see.

The underlying message within this series is not that "religion is evil." It's a "reenactment" (much like Passion of the Christ) of the Biblical events from Genesis to Revelation, not the usual History Channel documentaries which do criticize. However alot is left out because of the fact that it's only a 10 hour series.

[TRUTH281]

Thanks but no thanks.  My time would be more productive and better spent pulling ticks off my dogs butt.

Longhorn

Yeah, no comment on that one.

[thewatchman]

Thanks but no thanks.  My time would be more productive and better spent pulling ticks off my dogs butt.

Longhorn

Is that a little like picking your nose and eating the pickins....do you nibble on the ticks?

[Rhys 🕊]

 

[Greatest I am]

I watched the first episode.

Cheap garbage so far.
You could see the writer hurying through the gruesom O T so that he could get us quickly to the kind gentle Hell creator Jesus and away from the genocidal son murderer of the O T.

Rather hard Trinity wise but then the churches do not teach the O T much either as it would create too many uncomfortable questions.

Regards
DL

[onelovedread]

What part in particular would you say was cheap garbage?
Strangely enough, when I attended church, the sermons I heard would be at the ratio of perhaps 5 old testament messages to 1 new testament.
It seemed to be easier for the ministers to preach on the OT characters like David, Joseph, Abraham, Jeremiah and others than on the messages of Jesus, Paul or Peter.

[Greatest I am]

What part in particular would you say was cheap garbage?
Strangely enough, when I attended church, the sermons I heard would be at the ratio of perhaps 5 old testament messages to 1 new testament.
It seemed to be easier for the ministers to preach on the OT characters like David, Joseph, Abraham, Jeremiah and others than on the messages of Jesus, Paul or Peter.

Hollywood is dumbing everything down these days.

Have you seen the new Time Machine or War of the Worlds or basically most of the remakes?

All the philosophy or theology has been taken out for drama and the same thing happened in the new Bible series so far.

It provoked absolutely no thought in terms of the morality of God and did not even hint that God himself hardened Pharaoh's soft heart before he hardened it to insure he could show off and kill the innocent first born instead of the guilty parents.

I think that quite immoral. Do you?

This piece does promote thoughts of philosophy or theology. Let me know what you think.

(teaching links are not allowed)

Regards
DL

[gmik]

ya know its ok i think as mindless cheap entertainment goes...and by 9 sunday nite i am all for chillin out..
...however, i watched vikings and got totally unchilled...dang violence...I do remember when i visited Lindesfarne that they thought the vikings was the "last days" and they ended their prayers w/ and "save us from the vikings" not amen..

[onelovedread]

I started watching the second installment on Sunday but it was so inaccurate, that I turned it off.
Why would any screenwriter/producer feel that they could improve on the Bible storyline?
Man really thinks the world of himself, until God brings him to the realization that He is the potter and we are merely the clay.

[Foxx]

Its as bad as The Greatest Story Ever Told

[Rhys 🕊]

I've got the history channel here in NZ and didn't even bother to check. Too much awesome stuff to read here in my opinion. I never get tired of it. Praise the Lord for Bible Truths and Amen.

Rhys

[jingle52]

Didn't watch this new series, but Foxx you are right when you say that the Greatest story ever told was bad! I thought it was really bad!

[Dave in Tenn]

I caught most of the third episode on a different channel.  It ended with Jesus calling Peter to be a disciple.  Best as I remember, the last bit of dialog was:

Peter:  (after Jesus had called him)  What are we going to do?

Jesus:  We're going to change the world.

(fade out, roll credits)

Then a new reality show began which features the misbehaving daughters of preachers.  Made me that much more ready for the world to be changed.     

[Rito1980]

i skipped it too.   

[Joel]

I was able to watch it. But missed a night or two, and picked up later on the segments I had missed.
In my opinion there was a lot of artistic license taken throughout.

Joel