These so-called "strange happenings" are more than likely just that, strange happenings, not some supernatural confirmation from Heaven over the accuracy or inspiration of the series.
Duct — Have you watch either episode? It is worth watching. Folks are quibling over it didn’t include this or that or changed something; but considering the producers (who are independent of the history channel) are covering the entire Bible in 5 two hour shows, I believe it gives the person who is unfamiliar with the Bible at any level, except for being the object of attack by non-believers, is worth watching.
See also the other, earlier, thread on this same lead line.
Then I started to think......I know the story behind Sodom and Gomorrah...but there are probably many who do not (lots of details left out).
Perhaps, in order to find out, they actually picked up their Bibles to find out.
Nothing wrong with planting a seed. If more people picked up their Bibles and started reading, studying and adhering to His teachings, the better off we will all be.
They miss the message of the Bible, which is all pointing to Christ. As it is done so far, it’s just a collection of visual stories. Not impressive.
>>Not to try and throw cold water on this series, but many articles and reviews have revealed that the series is in no way Biblical in its message. One commentator said something akin to “Did these folks even read the Bible before they wrote the script?”
I’ve been watching it. It gives us the children’s Sunday school version of the OT. But, it only has a nominal 10 hours and commercials steal about 3 of those hours to tell the entire bible. You won’t get a word-for-word telling in that much time.
The real story is that people are watching and maybe a few will be intrigued by the OT stories and stick around for the second half, which will be much better. Since the NT is relatively short compared to the OT, the stories will have a lot more detail.