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Thoughts on "Bible Entertainment"

UntoldGlory

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So we've been watching "A.D. the Bible Continues", which I like and enjoy, but isn't based purely on scripture, and I just saw a trailer for an upcoming show "Of Kings and Prophets" which appears to be about Saul and David, but looks waaaaaaaay off base. I also suffered through "Noah" at one point.

So I'm curious to get people's thoughts on entertainment based on the Bible. Are you ok with things that attempt to preserve the "spirit" of the word if not 100% accuracy (such as A.D), or do you think any deviation or addition is a bad thing? Personally, I believe things that are way off base are very dangerous to those that don't have a foundation in the word, but I'm curious about what others have experienced?
 
I think it depends how off base they are. The bible is open to interpretation so these things are never going to be perfect.

Noah, however... They had a dude named Noah and an ark and that's about the only similarities.

We got a DVD called A Night With The King. It's about Esther and I found it really good. Very well made, pretty accurate (they chucked extra story lines in to make it more dramatic but they made it interesting), BUT they removed polygyny! And that just made me mad!

I previewed the story of David I'd bought for the kids in cartoon form. They removed polygyny out of that too. Apparently he and Michele fell in love when they were young and then got married and lived happily ever after, no more wives. They showed priests having their heads cut off, a little too graphic for my liking, but they couldn't show David having more wives.

Or there was another lovely kid's one that showed Adam and Eve. They BOTH named the animals, God was a shining eye floating in the sky (I'm not kidding...) and when God made everything he made animals that evolved into others, like fish that then jumped out of the water and turned into tigers.
We let the kids watch that one, and we got them to point out everything that was wrong with it and why. We read the actual story of Adam and Eve out of the bible to see how true the DVD actually was. So it was a good teaching tool.

After these experiences I mostly stay clear of them now. You can have something really fantastic, that's really accurate and well done, then they do something ridiculous (like Joseph pacing up and down outside the 'cave' while Mary gives birth alone) that throws it all. As adults we can pick out the true things and the made up stuff, but for the children they will just believe everything they're shown.
 
I have no problem with bible entertainment that at least makes the attempt to be faithful to the text. Unfortunately very soon after we run into the issue of artistic license, and like FH2 said kids accept what they are given.

I am not a great connoisseur though... I liked Passion of the Christ, but otherwise I avoid most Christian entertainment like the plague. The syrup-sweet morality tales and sterilized bible stories do not really seem like the cannibal death cult that I joined. I couldn't sit through heaven is for real, as it made me want to choke like everyone in it.
 
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I get that. I actually kind of enjoyed one Christian movie, I think it was fireproof? And I enjoyed the "left behind" novels. So far I'm really liking AD the Bible continues. I'd have portrayed a couple of things a different way, but overall pretty good.
 
When I read the title of this thread I was trying to figure out what kind of Scripture derived games we were talking about, like learning how to sling stones or something. Which, I must say, would probably be pretty entertaining... perhaps more for those watching!

I've personally been exceptionally disappointed with so-called "Bible based movies". On the one hand, you have the Secular agenda of Hollywood churning out twisted movies about the Exodus and Noah, and on the other hand, you have Christian movies that are terrible as entertainment.

I did mostly like "Prince of Egypt", however.
 
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I think the movie Joshua with the band Third Day was a good Christian entertainment, though I wouldn't call it Bible entertainment.

I agree Prince of Egypt was pretty good and had a really good soundtrack too.

Veggie Tales can be a bit watered down, but oh so funny
 
Phil Vischer (Veggie Tales) started a new series called 'Buck Denver asks... What's in the Bible?' We just got our first one called 'Jesus Is The Good News'. It was great, I'm looking forward to when the next one arrives. :)
 
It's for the same age group as Veggie Tales, but it's much more informative and less goofy. They really focus on trying to teach the Bible. The information on the one we just got says :

' Jesus Is The Good News! [Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John] features two 25-minute episodes:

Part One: "God's Perfect Timing" Buck Denver and crew learn about the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments and how Jesus arrives at just the perfect time.

Part Two: "The Messiah has come!" Learn about the life and ministry of Jesus - how he died for us and rose again to launch the kingdom of God in the world and in us!'
 
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Sounds like it has a bit more meat to it. Our youngest is eight. Would you say it's too young for him?
 
I agree, its does have more meat to it. Our son is nine and I think it'll be perfect for him, he's been visiting grandparents so he hasn't gotten to see it yet. :)
 
Sounds all good and well but do they have SONGS?!!
 
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My eight year old saw the cover when I was looking at ordering one and begged me not to make him watch it because it was for little kids.
 
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