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I think I'm kinda the same way Dragonbait, which is kinda why I started the thread. Someone at church mentioned that back when Hollywood was starting up, Christians poopooed it as evil... regardless of the fact that it could have been used to further His kingdom... and so what is Hollywood today? Its just pushed the line further and further, because nothing is really holding it back.

The Nativity Story is awesome.May God bless you all.

"In Search Of ... " was a documentary TV series in the mid- to late-70's hosted by Leonard Nimoy (yes, Spock) focusing on the ... strange and unusual: ancient astronauts, the Kennedy conspiracies, Amelia Earhart, Atlantis, and so forth.

The TV show was interesting enough (well, if you're into that sort of thing, which I always have been), but there were two ... eh, not exactly spin-offs, but I don't think they were actually part of the show, in spite of following the same format. At any rate, there were at least two movies: In Search Of Noah's Ark, and In Search Of Historic Jesus; I have the book that accompanies Ark (can't really call it a novelization), and I saw Jesus in theatres around '82 with my Sunday School class.

Ark had the same producer as the show (Alan Landsburg), so I'm assuming it's part of the overall series. I've also seen In Search Of Historic Jesus in video stores ... granted, not recently, but I do know it had a home video release.

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And yes, I do recommend the '59 version of Ben-Hur. It's the most famous, at any rate, and thus the most likely version for people to find. I didn't even know about the TV show, I admit.

another is the Emissary its about Paul the Apostle. May God bless you all.

That'd be the one i'm talking about hey theres one on King Daviv but I can't find it I would really like ot watch it if you run across it post it and the address so I can watch it online and please try to find where they play it free I don't have crdit card or nothing and my folks don't like God or Jesus CHrist and pretty much hate me to its the persecution thing I get it quite often. May God bless you.

No promises, Kenshin, but I'll do what I can.

*Sigh.* This sounds like a conversation topic repeated between the three of us every time there's a super-hero movie. Meadow asks why such-and-such a character didn't appear in the movie, BlckRobe yells at her for asking the same question over and over and over ad infinitum et nauseam, I separate them and try (unsuccessfully) to explain to her (again) that with 45 years of history (to pick on the X-Men), it'd be impossible to squeeze in everybody without turning the movie into a four-hour slideshow.

Since that probably doesn't make sense to some people here, I'll explain. Every word written in the Bible is important. But movies, regardless of how faithful they may be to the original material, are not the Bible. Frankly, as long as you keep enough of the original to make it recognizable, I personally wouldn't complain about things being left out in movies.

No movie based on a pre-existing medium (usually a book) is an exact duplicate of the original. Are there time cuts? Yes. Are there cuts to make something accessible to a larger audience? Yes. Are there things that are important, but would quickly drive most audiences into the street because they're boring? Yes. Are there events that just plain don't make sense to people? Yes. And my personal favorite, are there events which probably didn't happen the way we think they did? Yes.

And is any of these a bad thing? No, not generally. Oh, don't misunderstand; if you were to tell the story of Jesus, but leave out the resurrection, you'd be leaving out probably the most important part. But it might be safe to skip over Him cursing the fig tree; with no disrespect intended to the Lord or His word, that's a (by human standards) lesser part of the overall story. Heck, how many people reading this post aren't sure what I'm talking about? If you don't know about Jesus and the fig tree, my point is proven.

There's two ways to view a Biblical movie, in my opinion. For Christians, it's a retelling, a dramatization, but not a complete replay of the original. For non-Christians, it's a sampler, something to whet their appetites and make them want more.

To swap metaphors for a moment, you don't throw the entire menu into the "appetizer" section. Make sense, folks?

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When I first saw that title, I thought of the pilot for DS9. Yes, we know how my brain works, when it works. I admit, I hadn't heard of the Paul movie (at least, I don't recall hearing of it), but if it qualifies, great.

Knuckles, there's no need to double-post. In fact, we discourage that. It's just one step up from spamming.

The only one I know of that hasn't been said is for kids. I have a friend who works at a Christian school and loves veggie tales. I'm not that crazy about them because they make me hungry and then I want to eat them so I focus on my appetite and not the movie or show, but I've heard a lot of good things about it if younger folks want to watch a movie.

If it makes you feel any better, I thought of the DS9 pilot too. But that's pretty much a given.