In the past, neither the general Hollywood types nor the Christian community was so willing to rip into a Biblical story for what it saw were its flaws.
The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and King of Kings were grand Biblical epics in the 1950s and 1960s, and people don’t constantly gripe at them for their lack of line by line recitation of the scriptures.
What Mark Burnett and Roma Downey did was present the basic stories of the scriptures to millions of people who have probably never heard those stories in any form. If even a small portion of those pick up a Bible to read the stories for themselves, then Burnett and Downey have led more people to read the Bible than most evangelists in history. The Holy Spirit can grow the seeds that they scattered that landed on fertile ground. How many might come to know Christ? And so many bicker and gripe about it.
Which people would you bar from eternal life because it wasn’t presented the way you would like?
Amen.
I agree. It may not have been “strictly by the Book”.
But it got people watching and talking. A remarkable event.
The thing that amused me most was the “V” rating. Given the popular shows on tv are horribly violent (Criminal Minds, etc) it is pretty amazing.
Well said.
Wow, someone grounded in reality. Thank you.