The History Channels The Bible premiers tonight

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I saw an extended 4 minute trailer of the new miniseries that is launching Sunday, March 3rd, on the History channel. It looks like it will cover the Genesis to Revelations, and I for one am looking forward to this. Many of the Christian shows that I have watched on the History Channel have left something to be desired; typically there is some sort of liberal interjection in their “history.”

Thoughts…?

breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/02/01/history-channel-bible-extended-look
 
Given that it is the History channel…I don’t expect much…except that they will likely concentrate much more on the “history” - in particular “battles” and “blood” - than on say - the prophets and their preaching and warnings etc.

I might peak in to check it out…but like I say - I don’t expect much…

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Let’s just hope their facts are straight and little bias as possible and that it doesn’t bash Christianity.
 
Seeing as it is History Channel, I do expect some bias, particularly for the Gospels of the New Testament; however, I will be watching, but only because my curiosity is piqued.
 
Kc906 said:
I saw an extended 4 minute trailer of the new miniseries that is launching Sunday, March 3rd, on the History channel. It looks like it will cover the Genesis to Revelations, and I for one am looking forward to this. Many of the Christian shows that I have watched on the History Channel have left something to be desired; typically there is some sort of liberal interjection in their “history.”

Thoughts…?

breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/02/01/history-channel-bible-extended-look
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I don’t think much of the history channel except as “entertainment”, and not the type I really like. I do not discern liberal ideas, more sensationalism and falsehood. Liberals at least are sincere for the most part. You might actually think I am one.
 
Ohana said:
I don’t think much of the history channel except as “entertainment”, and not the type I really like. I do not discern liberal ideas, more sensationalism and falsehood. Liberals at least are sincere for the most part. You might actually think I am one.
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I agree, they are first trying to entertain their audience, and by doing so they sometimes show some dishonesty in their work. Liberal may not be the correct word, but when I saw one of their shows discussing the Gospel of Matthew, they were discussing the idea of Jesus being a Homosexual based on the way a story in Matthew went.

I’m paraphrasing, it talks about him being alone in a room with a boy and then he emerges, and then suddenly there is no more discussion about it and it moves on to the next verse/chapter. They claimed that there was a missing part of the Gospel of Matthew that was kept secret only for the clergy.

A lack of evidence on their “theory” of both of these accusations was pretty alarming. Again, “liberal” might not be the correct term, disgusting might be more appropriate. I used Liberal only in the sense that many of them out there in the media/tv/movies will try their best to undermine Christianity any time they can.
 
I expect aliens to be part of the program at some point.
 
I wish that Christian reviews of religious programming would score such programs based upon the degree to which they are “faith-affirming” as opposed to “faith-challenging”, vis’a’vis traditional understandings, interpretations, morals, and culture.

Obviously, there is something “challenging” to any good sermon or call to holiness. That’s not the sort of “challenge” I mean.

I am referring to religious programming which repeatedly throws in’experts’ who opine that Jesus was marriedor gay, that the Flood or the Paasover or the Reign of David are fictional, which suggest that the visions of Ezekiel and/or the Star of Bethlehem were UFO’s, which suggest that Paul was some sort of epilectic or an embittered misogynist, etcetera.

As opposed to films which strive mightily to encourage believers in their faith, which call them to embrace the crosses of their own lives, which succor and help sustain them in their walk–and which MAY at times, challenge them to do more for God or for His creation.

Am I making sense?
 
Kc906 said:
I saw an extended 4 minute trailer of the new miniseries that is launching Sunday, March 3rd, on the History channel. It looks like it will cover the Genesis to Revelations, and I for one am looking forward to this. Many of the Christian shows that I have watched on the History Channel have left something to be desired; typically there is some sort of liberal interjection in their “history.”

Thoughts…?

breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/02/01/history-channel-bible-extended-look
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I’ve already heard of it from Bible Films Blog. Of course, the program is still a month away (and being in Japan with no cable I doubt that I’ll be able to watch it in real time), but I do notice that one of my favorite scholars, Mark Goodacre, is a consultant. Granted, the History Channel has a very infamous track record when it comes to religion - or pretty much many other topics (‘Sasquatch Channel’ indeed :D), but since this is also the channel which showed that IMHO well-done documentary about the Shroud of Turin (The Real Face of Jesus), I’d be willing to cut at least this particular production some slack.

Now, all I can say is, that some scenes in this preview are a deliberate homage to/blatant rip-off of The Passion of the Christ (or at least evoke it). Just goes to show how influential that film has become. 😉
 
If the list of consultants I saw is any indication of who they went to for information the title should really be “The American Evangelical Bible” instead of the “The Bible.”
 
oldcatholicguy said:
If the list of consultants I saw is any indication of who they went to for information the title should really be “The American Evangelical Bible” instead of the “The Bible.”
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I guess they fell into the pitfall where ‘Christian’ is equivalent to ‘Evangelical’ (you know, the whole ‘Christian’ pop genre). 😛 Still I think that that would be better than “The Bible, presented by the Jesus Seminar.”
 
Just to clarify: The Bible isn’t going to be a documentary but a drama series of sorts (something which is I believe is already well-implied by the trailer). Of course you can now question why the History Channel would air a dramatization. As for me, I’m just so glad they didn’t choose to go down the same old documentary route. 🤷

P.S. Here’s the Nativity scene, featuring stormy weather, a very young Joseph, and a bunch of Christmas card cliches. 😉 In fact, here’s The Bible’s Youtube channel. You watch and decide. For the moment I think it’s very cool. The only ‘controversial’ thing that I could see here is the depiction of Mary having labor pains, which I’m sure a number of folks here would not agree with.
 
Costner said:
Dude, There is defintley going to be aliens in it.
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If you count angels as ‘aliens’, maybe. 😃

In all seriousness, though, I do think - again, just going by the trailers and other material - that this’ll be a pretty much straightforward adaptation of biblical stories. At least they’ve made it clear (as said earlier) that this isn’t going to be a documentary but a drama series.

As I said earlier though, they seem to pay homage to (at best)/rip off (at worst) a lot of biblical films. The passion scenes are a nod to The Passion of the Christ; some of the Moses scenes in the trailer (specifically the parting of the sea) look like a throwback to The Prince of Egypt; the resurrected Jesus walking out a door evoke the ascension scene in the 1999 Jesus miniseries (at least in its so-called ‘International’ version as opposed to the one aired in America). Heck, I think the nativity scene also borrows a thing or two from The Nativity Story!
 
patrick457 said:
If you count angels as ‘aliens’, maybe. 😃

In all seriousness, though, I do think - again, just going by the trailers and other material - that this’ll be a pretty much straightforward adaptation of biblical stories. At least they’ve made it clear (as said earlier) that this isn’t going to be a documentary but a drama series.
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If it is a drama series, I’m looking forward to the scene where Jesus builds his church on Peter and gives him the keys! A scene i thought should of been in the Passion of the Christ:thumbsup:
 
Costner said:
If it is a drama series, I’m looking forward to the scene where Jesus builds his church on Peter and gives him the keys! A scene i thought should of been in the Passion of the Christ:thumbsup:
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For the record, I did notice that they will adapt Daniel, something which doesn’t get the film treatment much. 😃
 
Kc906 said:
I saw an extended 4 minute trailer of the new miniseries that is launching Sunday, March 3rd, on the History channel. It looks like it will cover the Genesis to Revelations, and I for one am looking forward to this. Many of the Christian shows that I have watched on the History Channel have left something to be desired; typically there is some sort of liberal interjection in their “history.”

Thoughts…?

breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/02/01/history-channel-bible-extended-look
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The history channel always, and I repeat always, does the old bait and switch routine. For this topic (Christian subject matter), they always start out innocently enough and follow the usual Christian road, but then start subtly interjecting falsehoods, becoming more blatant as each quarter hour passes.

Their intent, obviously then, is to lure unsure, unsuspecting Christians to watch the show and give them enough misleading/false info to have them leave or consider leaving Christianity.

God bless you.
 
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