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this post shocks me.

i admired them for the same reason. heck, why NOT concentrate on the old testament and have a broader audience? that is good business. but that is a minor point.

that point aside, i am deeply disturbed by the apparent theology behind this post. it sounds like you are saying that "if it is not New Testament" then it is not authoritative enough, or about Christ.

let's get this straight: Christianity teaches that the OT is about Christ, also. He is there, just not as obviously. It is completely appropriate for a Christian preacher to preach out of the OT....now, he should always make a bee line for the cross, of course, as Spurgeon always said. But that is in the context of a sermon. I don't think that something has to be a sermon to be from God. The OT is still God's Word and the obedience of Joshua, the courage of David and the sovereignty of God as shown to Jonah (all of these were VT stories) are completely legitimate topics.

Heck, by that reasoning, I can't read my kids the story of Noah, leaving it at that, without being "non-Christian". I think that is crazy.

I am disturbed by the notion that there is something defective about a presentation of the OT. The NT does NOT replace the OT, any more than Act V of Hamlet replaces Acts 1-4. The NT completes it, it doesn't replace it.

What you say about the OT being the foundation for the NT is true. But I am deeply disturbed by people's blind acceptance of everything that is marketed for Christian consumption.

As previous posters have corrected me, two (but only two) Veggie Tales videos do discuss, in brief Jesus Christ. Not one, in your quotation of Spurgeon, makes "a bee line for the cross, of course". The Cross, and Christ's redeeming work on it, is just not discussed in the Veggie Tales universe. I am not looking at the individual Veggie Tales tapes, I am looking at them as a whole. Presenting individual OT stories is not defective; presenting them without ever "making a bee line for the Cross" is.

Why should children be denied the Gospel message? Why should the forgiveness of Christ go absent in the stories we teach them? Why instead should we just present them with morality tales, who's only real message (as shown in the Veggie Tales Jonah movie) is "Be nice to other people"? Heck, even the heathens teach that. What happens when the child is disobediant to God, as we all will be? Will they remember the lessons they learned from Veggie Tales: "You Should Be Good - Try Harder"? Who will remind them that even though they sin, God forgives them on account of Christ? Certainly not the Veggie Tales.

And please note, I took pains to say that I did not outright condemn the Veggie Tales. Taken individually, they are some amusing recitations of OT Bible stories. But taken as a whole, they are a dirt poor representation of what Christianity really is.