etc., etc., etc.,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nbut the suffering continues anyway?<\/p>\n
Yes, those looking for companionship should trust God to give them wisdom and discernment. I\u2019m not cutting God out of the picture. I\u2019m just saying he doesn\u2019t act on cue because a match-making website implies that he does, provided you fill out the right forms and have a valid credit card.<\/p>\n
Embarrassing western self-absorbtion. God molded to our image.<\/p>\n
O.K. Now I feel better.<\/p>\n
Anyway, as for the second episode\u2026.generally speaking, it was bad.<\/p>\n
One a 1-10 scale\u2013with 1 being \u201cI hate it so much I want to pry my own eyes out of my sockets\u201d and 10 being \u201cJesus himself couldn\u2019t have done this good a job,\u201d I\u2019m coming in at about a 2. I\u2019m willing to adjust upward .5 to allow for the fact that I am not their target audience. But still, today was tedious<\/strong> and\u2026what\u2019s a good synonym for tedious?<\/p>\nSome things I noticed when I wasn\u2019t dozing off.<\/p>\n
\n- Joshua is short<\/li>\n
- They placed the Philistines 100 years after Joshua. Since the Philistine landed in Canaan around 1200 BC, the means the producers hold to the late date of the Exodus (If you need to ask, trust me, you wouldn\u2019t care).<\/li>\n
- They spent way too much time on Samson, but it became clear why: they are making him into a Christ figure. Samson gave himself up for his people in accordance with God\u2019s will; he is chained to cross of wood; Delilah betrays Samson to the authorities for money and then feels guilty about it;\u00a0his mother grieves for him at his death.<\/li>\n
- I think the choice of focusing on Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, and now portraying Samson as a Christ figure\u2013and leaving out Jacob and Joseph\u2013suggests that they are emphasizing OT figures commonly thought to prefigure Christ.<\/li>\n
- Samson\u2019s first wife was met with disapproval by his mother, but he claimed that his love for the Philistine woman was God\u2019s doing\u2013which looked too much like a ChristinMingle.com commercial to me. (I can\u2019t let this go, can I?)<\/li>\n
- I have no more idea why they made Samson black than I do why they made Noah Scottish<\/li>\n
- David looks like Clive Owen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Apart from all the many things you could pick on in this TV series, there is a bigger issue that comes to mind.<\/p>\n
As I imagine people watching this show\u2013maybe people unfamiliar with the Bible\u2013I wonder if they are asking themselves, \u201cWhat kind of God is this, and do I really want anything to do with him?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd the hard part to explain is that the biblical episodes that the show more often than not gets right than wrong are those parts that depict the Israelites as tribal zealots whose God kills their enemies.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure this is unintentional, but did you catch the scene depicting the Philistine general praying to his god that he would deliver the Israelites into his hand so he could wipe them out? The Philistines and the Israelites are both portrayed as warring tribes who want to rule by violent means with the \u00a0approval an support of their god.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u2019ve pretty much checked out at this point. I will likely watch the rest to see how they handle Jesus, but my bar is set about as low as it can be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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