Tuesday, April 02, 2013

THE HISTORY CHANNEL has no history: The Bible





I finished watching History Channel’s THE BIBLE and its last episode, conveniently showing on Easter Sunday, and I was a little disturbed.

I acknowledge that a preface to the series stated that the Bible stories in the TV series were “loosely” based on the Gospel stories contained in the Bible.

The problem with that disclaimer is since the Gospels are our ONLY sources for the life of Jesus; anything not matching up with the Gospels is the writers’ attempt to re-write the Bible stories to match their own religious agenda…and they did just that.

Roma Downey (plays Mary) and Mark Burnett (creator of Survivor) produced this series which they describe as their “calling” to bring Bible literacy to the masses but actually ended up misrepresenting the Bible.

Does that matter?

The fact that over 11 million people tuned in to see the last days of Jesus on the “history” channel and since a majority of viewers probably believe what they see on the “history” channel is fact, hell yes it matters because they were deceived and will now spread that misinformation as fact.

One attempt to deceive was having the resurrected Jesus advocate and promote the missions of St. Paul to his apostles.

Paul never met Jesus and did not spread the message of Jesus but used Jesus’ resurrection in his new religion called Christianity which advocated the end of times (the apocalypse is nigh).

Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet but he dealt strictly with the Jews; the idea of bringing in the gentiles (non-Jews) was a Pauline idea which was rejected and opposed by the apostles of Jesus (as written in the Bible).

There were many other issues in this made for TV series where the writers deliberately misrepresented the stories as told in the Bible and the question is why.

Bible scholars have already chimed in with why Downey and Burnett produced the series called The Bible the way that they did and many of those scholars, at least the ones that commented, said that their agenda was basically to show that all the Bible stories they decided to show (and they left out a lot), pointed or led to Jesus as in prophesying or predicting.

I hope more Bible scholars come out and review this TV presentation because it needs honest review and criticism even though the damage has been done and many people were brainwashed already.



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