Posted on 02/24/2014 11:12:41 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Last year the History Channel featured the epic television event, The Bible Series, which was produced by Roma Downey and her husband Mark Burnett. This show captivated audiences and became the talk of many churches. Churches even purchased pre-written sermons to go along with the show, which according to outreach.com made it into 180,000 churches.
Roma and Mark were endlessly interviewed in Christian magazines, and on Christian radio. All along saying that they were sold out Christians and believers filled with the Holy Spirit.
And the churches bought it.
They promoted it.
And yet, as I watched The Bible Series, I personally became furious at how much they twisted the word of God. Not just omitting things for the sake of timebut changing the theme, the message, and the nature of Bible characters, and the nature of God Himself. That is unforgivable.
God will judge that.
I was furious.
My husband and I were sitting in our darkened living room with our bowls of ice cream and we couldnt even get five minutes into it without pausing it and discussing how, not only is it different than the Bible, but that the way that it is different changes so much of the truth of God and the Bible. We would talk about what message it is sending to people that dont know God. It got so bad that I had to write about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at thelasthiker.wordpress.com ...
“If you look at movie history, The Ten Commandments were a long time ago”
This one was not too long ago and got no publicity. Check it out. It’s great and 100% taken from scripture.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gospel-John-Henry-Cusick/dp/B0006Q93ZG
Check out my post #62.
Downey by her own admission has strayed very far away from Catholicism and she certainly did in this movie.
I’m not surprised given they got so silly with race in the series
Good works
Whatever
The irony is the old Jews made better Jesus movies
This movie (and series) is supposed to be a tool to reach people for Christ...
To let the Holy Spirit move people toward either knowledge of Christ or a reconciliation of the believer...
Does it touch on the fundamentals of the Christian faith "?
1. The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1; John 20:28; Hebrews 1:8-9).
2. The Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:27).
3. The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28; Romans 3:25, 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14).
4. The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36-46; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 15:14-15).
5. The inerrancy of the scriptures themselves (Psalms 12:6-7; Romans 15:4;
As long as it does these things some Hollywood license should be no big deal
There isn't going to be one believer who walks out of the theater and throws away their salvation over a movie...
If anything it will inspire them to walk closer to their Lord...
“Im not surprised given they got so silly with race in the series”
Samson was an Israelite and a Hebrew judge of Israel. The Bible does not say Samson was black, nor that he was not of the Jewish race. This is a PC stretch from Downey and husband.
That is entirely unnecessary: All it needs to do is say and illustrate what he saw and heart.
This video does a fairly good job: http://christianvisualmedia.com/index.php/jomsocial/42-david/videos/video/1130-the-book-of-revelations-full-movie-the-revelation-of-jesus-christ But i do not know if it is legally uploaded.
I did not post them, but here are some legal to watch that could be worth watching when you are too tired to do much else:
Don’t accept mediocrity. It’s how we got to where we are in the first place. The denial of truth.
Yep
And Chaldeans who looked Negroid
Many here defended all that
And now look
Silly non serious folk eh?
Thank you chuckles. I joined one of the largest Pentecostal Churches in the U.S. back in the early '80s. As a long-haired rock and rolling 20-something, I hardly fit the mold of the Pentecostals.
The Pastor, Bro. James Kilgore, told me that they were going to tell me I had to cut my hair, I couldn't watch TV and on and on. He said DO NOT listen to any of them. He said study your Bible, fast and pray, seek the Lord and let Him lead you, not any man.
If this movie, or any other vehicle, causes people to do that then it is a Gift from God and I thank the Lord Jesus for it. I don't care who or where it came from.
-houeto.
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