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My son and I watched it. Just about fell out of my chair when an angel was depicted as a ninja. We both said....”What were they thinking?”
Glossed over the reason for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
JMO
I question their Christianity, their Science and who and what they choose to "monitor."
The angelic diversity squad was the last straw.
Complete balderdash and biblical illiteracy!
The Bible doesn’t read like a Sunday School coloring book.
Not bad, but will not watch any more. Just as Cecile D’s epic was essentially 50’s folks in ancient costumes speaking 50s jargon, last night’s presentation pretty much fast forwarded the people into 2013.
Excellent visuals, though.
It was a similar inspirational experience to watching a modern day vampire movie. I don’t watch vampire movies.
I grimaced all the way up to the “Burning Bush” dying down and Moses then saying “With your(God’s) power *I* will set *my* people free”, then endured it till the end just to be somewhat aware of the series. I won’t be watching the rest.
http://bible.cc/exodus/9-1.htm
Quite a Hollyweird “package/promotion” /collaboration with “Christians” though:
Husband and wife behind ‘The Bible’ miniseries
http://news.yahoo.com/husband-wife-behind-bible-miniseries-161636981.html
How Survivor’s Mark Burnett gathered believers for his epic Bible miniseries
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/how-survivors-mark-burnett-gathered-believers-for-his-epic-bible-miniseries/article9167902/?cmpid=rss1
Most notable ads in last night’s bombardment:
CatholicsComeHome.org
ChristianMingle.com
“The Bible” on History Channel
3/03/2013 | MacNaughton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2993153/posts?page=1
I watched it. It was weighed in the balance and found wanting. Where was the story of Joseph? The Sodom sequence was really weird. Many many things left out so far. The Vikings show was far better.
A great opportunity to watch something else.
Last night’s show basically dealt with Abraham and Moses.
They did a decent job telling the story with a little bit of Hollywood....which is to be expected.
If someone didn’t like the graphic nature of women turning to salt, of plagues in Egypt, of children being sent away from home, of a child nearly sacrificed, and of wife sharing, then they better not read the bible in the first place.
The ninja angels were pure Hollywood, but other than that, I can’t think of anything in the first episode that really raised my eyebrows.
My sense is that they’re going to deal with Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samson, David, Daniel, Jesus life, His death/burial/resurrection, and then the early Church.
That’s it, and that’s a lot, but it’s also leaving out a huge amount more. But Downey and husband have always said they were telling just a few of the stories in the limited time that they did have.
I watched the whole thing, and had a bad feeling throughout.
The dialogue was all “made up”, and didn’t jibe with actual Scripture. I was expecting sentences that never got said, and heard ones that aren’t in the Bible.
All the characters came across as boorish and unlikable, except perhaps for adorable little Ishmael, who was supposed to be 14 and looked around 9. (A 14 year old would be too gawky and adolescent to be attractive!)
Sarah came across as a total bitch, who hated Ishmael for no reason, although the Bible CLEARLY states that Ishmael was Teasing (sporting with, playing with, tormenting, bullying) Baby Isaac. The Hebrew commentaries even go so far as to say that this “teasing” bordered on molestation.
The Three Angels were depicted shrouded in black, and were threatening to Abraham, even though in Genesis, He invited them into his tent, washed their feet, and made them welcome. It was at that point in time when Sarah Laughed at the prospect of her impending Pregnancy, thus giving Isaac his name (Laughter!)
Then they LEFT OUT the most beautiful, redemptive , and inspiring story in the entire Torah, the Story of Joseph! How Could they leave THAT ONE OUT? Without the story of Joseph, there would be NO Book of Exodus at all!
They showed the children of Israel getting extremely WET as they crossed the Red Sea, yet the Bible says they walked through on DRY land.
The Entire Book of Genesis (With NOTHING left out, even Dinah’s and Tamar’s Stories are in there...eek!) was produced several years ago by the Genesis Project. It was four hours long and I watched every second of it in rapt attention. Martin Landau played Abraham, and he was magnificent. The separate stories have been broken up into smaller films and are all available on Netflix.
I was so un-edified by this poorly made revisionist junk that I read My Bible for about a half hour and came back refreshed and ready for a new day.
If Christian Science Monitor hates it, that’s about all that’s needed to convince me to watch it.
>> I think that if you’re not willing to let your elementary-school child watch “300” and the “Twilight” series you should steer clear of this as a family viewing session. <<
Really? Context means nothing? Violent depictions promoting Satanism and teens having sex (Twilight) are on a par with violent depictions showing the courage of believers in God?
Haven’t watched it. But I bet it will get more people looking in to what the Bible actually says more than anything done since The Passion of the Christ.
That’s not a bad thing IMO.
The Bible itself moves along quickly and further on we find a few remarks about characters that were in the early part. The point being ... the Bible itself jumps quickly with a (bare outline) often being vague in the telling. It is one of the reasons it takes a serious student to learn of ever deeper knowledge of the LORD God. It is there but it takes time and attention to find. At least it is my experience. It is one of the reasons there are so many differences in understanding and truths. Even today major denomanations differ on understanding.
It is interesting how bare the essentials are being related in this story of the Bible.
Very like the way the Bible presents these stories. MO
I saw it for a while last night. I really increased my appreciation of Charlton Heston.
There are some movies that you can base a deeper understanding of Theology on.
I’d say “Jesus of Nazareth” was one of these.
There is also non-historical movies that are spiritual like “The Robe” “Moses” or “The Passion of the Christ”.
“The Bible” was not “Jesus of Nazareth” but it was better than a lot of movies that are out there.
I found it engaging.
A little flumoxed by the ninja angels in Sodom.
Very cool as far as visuals, but the reason angels are pictured as lithe and definitely not buff is to emphasize that the enormous power they have is from God, not themselves.
it wasn’t so bad that I had to shut it off.
So far it has been watchable...lets face it, to protray everything in the bible would be impossible.
we’ll see what the next episode does...