The Bible: The Epic Miniseries

One example was during the second episode when the Israelites are at the Red Sea, there is no pillar of fire or cloud to guide them. Something like that is how most of the inaccuracies are. One thing I would recommend is to have a Bible open following along with the story (though it does move fast) and review from scripture what is going on during the commercials (or pause it periodically). Overall, though I greatly enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it to others. Thanks for reading this, and God bless!

If this movie can spiritually touch a nonbeliever’s life in order for them to have a personal relationship with God, that’s the only thing we need to be concerned of! Ask questions like “Is the Jesus loving enough” “Do the actor’s roles personalities reflect how the Bible depicts their personalities!”

Stop being so critical, and be happy that this is one of the few ways we can get future Christians to see the love of Jesus Christ, and his Biblical Journey! My favorite scene was when he looked at Judas with such love. The expressing of his look, wasn’t recorded in the Bible either… but seeing it on screen, gives an idea of how Jesus possibly physically looked at all he created—no matter how sinful! Only Jesus could perfect that!

My niece watched and understood more in a few hours than she had understood after months of Sunday worship. I don’t believe for a second that these changes in the story were done with any malicious intent. And yes, my urge to read my Bible more has grown. Being able to visualize the stories of the Bible helps me grasp God’s word in a way that makes it more understandable and in some ways more personal.

In short, I don’t recommend anyone look at this series as the Bible in movie form. Even though the title says “the Bible” it is not to be viewed as the Bible, but rather a summary of the stories of the Bible in a squence that shows how the Bible stories are connected and can be laid out in order telling the entire story from Genesis to Revalations.

Revelation 22:18-19—For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

What Moses wrote in Deuteronomy also applies to the four books he wrote before it, and does not void any of the teachings of the prophets and apostles that came after him, in the remaining books of the Bible, especially not any of the teachings of Jesus Christ, who Moses testified would come (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19). The same principle holds true to the words that John wrote in the book of Revelation, which could be seen as a capstone to the four books he wrote before it as well. Although none of the other prophets and apostles included a similar commandment or warning in their books, I feel it safe to say, it also applies to every other prophet that God has commanded to write.

I find many things added to the movie, as-well-as many things that have been left out of it, so that most of the movie contradicts what is taught in the Bible.

I do understand that even a miniseries has time constraints as to how much detail can be included so I do not expect everything found in the Bible to be included, however, I must expect that what is included is accurate in both how the event is portrayed by the actors as-well-as what is spoken; both verbally and non-verbally, otherwise it is teaching false doctrine and is deceiving everyone!

They have added to, taken from, and totally perverted just about every sacred part of the Good Book in this movie that they have the nerve to call ‘The Bible’! They have corrupted the word of God!
…Unfortunately that is more than I can post here. Please read the Bible for the truth, you wont find much of it in this movie.

Abram was in “Ur of the Chaldees” when God told him to leave his country (Genesis 12:1), and he was in Haran (Genesis 11:31) after his father dies, when he took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and Lot’s wife to a new land. The movie calls Abram, Abraham, and Sarai, Sarah, long before the Lord ever changed their names.

…The movie makes it look like Lot’s wife hated living near Abram and Sarai and wanted to live in Sodom, and demanded Lot tell Abram it was time they went their separate ways. In addition to their not being any supporting scriptures for this portrayal they contradict the following:

Genesis 13:8-12 makes it clear that Abram is the one that suggested it was time to separate their flocks and offered Lot to choose where he wanted to go to find pasture and Abram would find pasture in the other direction. Just because they are separating themselves doesn’t mean they won’t have any contact with each other and does not justify their portrayal of Abram being discouraged or questioning God. With verse 13 we must remember that this is the account revealed to Moses hundreds of years after it happened when he stated that the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners.

There is no evidence that Abram said that it was dangerous to live in that area, although he may have thought it because he chose to pasture his flocks in a drier climate than the plain of Jordan which was “well watered every where” “as the garden of the Lord.”

By not pointing out that Sarai gave her maid, Hager, to Abram to be his wife, as Genesis 16:3 states, the movie makes it look like Sarai just suggested it, but still makes it look like it was an adulterous relationship rather than the actual marriage that the Bible describes it as.

In portraying the city of Sodom, the movie makes it look like a place that Lot and his family are afraid to go out at night and has them hiding away in fear; they also portray the angels sent to the city as being attacked and in fear for their lives. It shows Lot and later his family as being hesitant and afraid to assist strangers. When the “men of the city” came looking for the strangers they make it look like they are there to kill them and completely ignore the very reason that the Bible teaches that Sodom and Gomorrah were to be destroyed! This completely contradicts the account found in Genesis 19!

Lot was not hiding in fear, he “sat in the gate of Sodom”. The two angels were not in fear of the people of the city, nor were they harmed in any way! When Lot invited them to stay at his house and refresh themselves, they declined and said “Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.” It was only after Lot “pressed upon them greatly” that they agreed to accept his hospitality. When the men of the city came looking for Lot’s guests they were not there to attack or kill them, they were there to “know them” (Genesis 19:5), in the Biblical sense, as in Genesis 4:1 where “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain” or Genesis 4:17 where “Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch”.

If “know them” only meant they wanted to be introduced to them then there would be no need for Lot to respond by saying in Genesis 19:7 — “I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly” and then offer them his “two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof”!

The Bible does not suggest any violence happened, just that those who were at Lot’s door were smitten with blindness. The movie portrays the angels as warriors killing all those that get in their way as they lead Lot, his wife and two single daughters out of the city by night, which contradicts the Bible teaching that Lot went to his son's-in-law to warn them to flee and Genesis 19:15 states “when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city”. Then in Genesis 19:22 we are told that the angels can’t destroy the city until they have gone a safe distance: “Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither”.

The movie totally skips over the part where the angels ask Lot “Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters” and “Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law”. They completely ignore the fact why the city was destroyed (homosexuality) and that not only those that practiced it were destroyed but also Lot’s daughters, their husbands (heterosexual family); perhaps he had some grand children among those older daughters, or perhaps they chose not to keep the first commandment (Genesis 1:28 and 9:1) as many do today; all those that did not believed homosexuality was a sin worthy of the death penalty and those that defended them in those sins were equally destroyed with those that practiced it!

The only people that were saved were Lot, his wife and two daughters that knew enough to say “I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly”! This one Bible principle needs to be taught more today than just about anything else found in the Bible other than repentance and the atonement of Jesus Christ! When the wicked outnumber the righteous the Earth will be ripe for destruction just as Sodom and Gomorrah were!

The example of Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a perfect example of how we need to balance the truths that God has revealed in the scriptures, with tolerance in our day. Except for the theocracy during the days of Moses and early Israel, the true God of heaven and Earth has rarely been officially recognized as the civil ruler and His commandments followed by those in charge of running the government.

Today we live in similar circumstances as both Lot and Jesus Christ did. We search the scriptures to know God’s will, we teach it to our children and anybody else willing to listen, we warn them of what the punishments are that God has decreed but then we must leave it to them to decide how they wish to live their lives!

With Lot, it appears that he preferred to live in a house, in-the-city, rather that outside in a tent, he knew his flocks would benefit from the lush feed in the plains that were “well watered every where” “as the garden of the Lord”; there is nothing wrong with any of that. Although he was well aware of the sins of the people he dwelt among, it does not appear that he ever openly judged them or discriminated against them in any way, until he had the visitors, and they came to force themselves upon them; then he told them: “I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly” and their response was: “This one fellow came in to sojourn… and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.” Due to their reaction, it appears that Lot had never brought up their sinful behavior before.

A similar lesson in tolerance can be seen in John 8:3 when “the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery,” they tell Jesus in verse 4 “this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act” and then they remind him that “Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou”. Their hypocrisy should be obvious to any honest reader of the scriptures. If we go to the source of this commandment we find:

Leviticus 20:10 — “And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 17:2, 4-7 — “If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

When we go to the source of the commandment we find their hypocrisy! How was the woman taken “in the very act” of committing adultery without a man being involved? Where was the man! After all of her accusers were “convicted by their own conscience” and “went out one by one” Jesus did not completely let her off the hook; He told her “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more”; she was well aware that it was a sin worthy of death, Jesus did not need to remind her of that, He just had to make sure she knew He did not condone her actions. During this time, because of the general wickedness of the people, God had allowed the Romans to rule over Israel.

Therefore, they were the ones responsible for setting and executing the laws—not Jesus or the hypocritical Jews of that day! Today, at least in the USA, we make the laws that we deem best for society. As far as those laws are in harmony with the commandments of God and are enforced by the government, we have a hope of peace and safety, however, when our laws are not in harmony with the laws of God all we can look forward to is the same end as Sodom and Gomorrah. All we can do is try to get the laws of the land to be in harmony with the laws of God. We cannot take the law into our own hands or we become the guilty party!

So it is with us today if we wish to escape the judgments of God, we must search His commandments diligently and keep them; we are encouraged to share the Gospel with everybody that is interested but we are not to discriminate against anybody! When the day comes that the wicked outnumber the righteous, then God Himself will destroy the wicked as he did with Sodom and Gomorrah and with Jerusalem. We just need to be keeping the commandments and be prepared to flee the wicked when that day comes or we can choose to flee the wicked much sooner, rather than choosing to live among them in the first place.

The movie makes the city of Sodom look like a promiscuous, yet heterosexual city that attacks visitors passing though, and does not assist them. They also ignore all the scriptures concerning homosexuality as being the “abomination” spoken of by Ezekiel and Moses, worthy of the death penalty. Although the copy of the commandments we have only goes back to Moses; it is apparent that they must have also been given to Adam and Eve. Otherwise Cain would not have sinned when he killed Abel and God would have no justification to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, if there were no commandment against their sins with the death penalty affixed to it.

Since God demands justice, there must be justice! Mercy only comes after repentance and through the atonement of Jesus Christ which then satisfies the demands of justice!

Ezekiel 16:48-50 — “As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”

Genesis 18:20 — “And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”

Leviticus 18:22 — “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”

Leviticus 20:13 — “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”

1 Kings 14:24 — “And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.”

Romans 1:24-27 — “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

1 Corinthians 6:9 — “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind…”

1 Timothy 1:9-10 — “Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine…”

Jude 1:5, 7 — “I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR EPISODES I AND II. I was interested in this series when I learned that Roma Downey (star of television’s “Touched By An Angel”) and Mark Burnett (producer of “Survivor,” “The Voice” and several other television shows) were producing this. I read in an interview with them that they used many translations because they wanted to appeal to the younger generation. That should have raised a red flag for me. I was stupid, however, and chose to see what they did with it. Now I wish I hadn’t. There are simply way too many inconsistencies with the Holy Scriptures.

For example, Lot and his wife are taken captive whilst they are on their journey to Sodom. Scripture clearly saith that Lot was already IN Sodom when the kings attacked Sodom and took him captive (The First Book Of Moses called Genesis 14:12; “They took Lot also Abram’s brother’s son and his substance [for he dwelt at Sodom] and departed.”)

Lot was also depicted as very ungrateful when Abram pleaded with him to turn back from going unto Sodom. That simply did not occur anywhere in the Scriptures. Also, it was ABRAM and not Lot, who said, “Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, neither between my herdsmen and thine herdsmen, for we be brethren Is not the whole land before thee? Depart, I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right: or if thou go to the right hand, then I will take the left.”-The First Book of Moses called Genesis 13:8-9.

Abram was also a man of faith, and he did not doubt when God saith unto him that He would make of him a great nation. Scripture saith, “And Abram believed, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.” He did not waver in his faith, and never questioned Almighty God, whining, “Have I not shown Thee enough faith?”

Personally, I also think that Isaac did not protest unto Abraham when he was going to be sacrificed unto God, for Isaac was but a figure of the True Sacrifice, which is Jesus Christ, and His death at Calvary accomplished redemption for all the world. God did not need to tell Abraham to have faith, because he HAD faith.

Also, the man in drag at Sodom-the clothes he was wearing looked way too modern. And where in Holy Writ doth it say that either the Angels whom God had sent to destroy Sodom or the spies which Joshua sent into Jericho engaged in a sword fight or other physical confrontation of such a nature? It doth not say that anywhere.

And in the bit of the second episode which I viewed when a relative of mine was viewing it, it clearly depicted David cutting off a corner of Saul’s robe when he was covering his feet, whereas Scripture saith that Saul was ASLEEP when he did that.

These inconsistencies are but a few examples of many that time and space proscribe me from relating.

The obvious evil society that Abram was called out of could of been explained. Idol worshiping and demon worshiping from Ur, Sodom, Egypt. Egypt was very evil towards the Jews, and they made sure not to elaborate that story. They could of shown a lot that would of explained the evil going on in the Middle East today. They made sure to skim past it, so this generation wouldn’t even see it.

The deliberate and evil way they distort God’s word by not mentioning why Sodom was destroyed was blatant. Hollywood loves to push homosexuality in our faces but they don’t mention or show that these men both young and old wanted to have sex with the angels? This was the new Bible for this depraved generation. The politically correct one that is trying not to offend this evil society, but only God and His true followers. The Antichrist will be well received by this generation.