Final look at the Theological Errors and Omissions of the Miniseries, "The Bible"

It's time for another edition of Fighting for the Fave, Monday, April 1st, 2013. Gotta tell you, this is the program that almost didn't happen. Oh man, my laptop is behaving very badly. I've been having problems with it for about a week.

And I am not a newbie when it comes to computer problems. This one has me in a kerfuffle. I think it might be time for a new laptop. Thank you for tuning in or listening to Fighting for the Fave. My name is Chris Roseborough.

I am your servant in Jesus Christ and this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical discernment. The goal of which, help you to think biblically, help you to think critically, help you compare what people are saying in the name of God to the word of God.

Sadly, there is no shortage of crazy things being said out there. We take the time to do the comparative work. And often time when you're doing biblical comparison, one of the things I've been pointing out lately, especially as we've been working our way through the History Channel mini-series The Bauble, is it's not necessarily what's said, it's what's missing that is the most important thing.

And in fact, what we're going to be doing today, first hour, we're going to be working through, I'm not going to, let's just put it this way, I'm going to spend the first hour, maybe a little bit longer depending on if I wax eloquent or not, working through last night's final installment of the History Channel mini-series The Bauble.

Let's just put it this way. There wasn't any big theological, super wincing problem in The Bauble. In fact, it was more along the lines of, well, that was missing and whoa, they left that out and oh my, what'd they do with that?

It became kind of a total episode of what did they not put into it and what did they put in its place, which actually tells you much about the theology. For instance, if you really think that something is precious, that something is important, that something is central to Christianity or your relationship with your wife or whatever, those are the things you go to first.

If you don't talk about things, well, they're not very important to you. Using the movie metaphor, when they're out there filming it back, well, actually, when I was growing up, I don't think they do this anymore.

When I was growing up, they actually would film things with film. That's why it was called filming. Yeah, I know, there's a whole bunch of verbs out there. It makes you wonder if those are even the right things, verbs to use anymore, but I don't think they use traditional film very often anymore.

Oftentimes, the cameras that they're recording with, not filming with because there's no film in it, but the things that they're filming, see, there you go again, that the cameras, it's all digital and so it stores the data digitally in HD and then they take it into a computer.

But back in the day, when it came to editing film, there was stuff that they would say would end up on the cutting room floor. OK, and why? Why would it end up on the cutting room floor? Well, if you've ever watched a DVD that has the director's cuts or, you know, they have the scenes that didn't make it into the theatrical presentation that made it to movie theaters, what you will oftentimes find if you ever, you know, do the nerdy thing, like I've been prone to do from time to time because I'm a nerd, is that, you know, you watch some of those deleted scenes and you go, yeah, there was a good reason why that was deleted because it wasn't any good.

And so you sit there and you realize that there's some wisdom behind these so-called deleted scenes. Well, think of it this way. When we're dealing with the History Channel miniseries, The Bobble, the final installment, the last two hours of this thing, and the first hour, just real quick, I have very little to say about it because for the most part, the first hour was just a theatrical depiction of Christ's passion, his suffering, his scourging, his trial, his, you know, having the crown of thorns pressed into his head, him having to carry his cross, him going to Golgotha, being nailed to the cross and then suffering and dying.

And I mean, the first hour I have no qualms with and I'm going to actually pick on in this first hour for the most part, you know, the couple of things toward the end. But it's when we get into hour number two where we start with the post-resurrection theology of this thing, there's some stuff that's just flat out confusing and there's some stuff that just flat out is inadequately portrayed.

And then going back with what I've been talking about, there's some very important pieces of Christian doctrine and theology that ended up on the cutting room floor of the video editors for the History Channel miniseries, The Bobble.

Now, I'm being generous. I mean, they may not, it may not, let's put it this way, it may not even be on the cutting room floor, whatever the digital cutting room floor is. It may not have ever made it into the script because they don't understand how important it is.

And so one of the things that really is obvious to me is that the theological advisors for the History Channel miniseries, The Bobble, don't know what, they don't know what the core message of Christianity is.

And as a result of it, they didn't think it worthy to actually stick into the post-resurrection stories that make up the Bible. And so, you know, you watch this thing and it's like, oh, wow. And some of these omissions, they're not insignificant.

They're major and of utmost significance. And, you know, so, you know, one of the questions I would ask is, who exactly is the Jesus of The Bobble? I'm not sure. I don't know if he's divine, if he's a creed.

I don't know. Is he more along the lines of the God of the Aryans? Is he more along the God of Mormonism? I'm not sure. The Christology in this thing is a mess and there's no actual proclamation, where there should have been one, where Jesus is called God.

And so, you know, he sends people out to change the world. And so there's some serious omissions. And that's where the real, that's where the real thing needs to be. The battle needs to be fought and the critique needs to be made.

And that's what I'll be doing today. And then, you know, and then obviously there's some stuff you just sit there and go, what are they even saying? So what we'll do is we'll spend the rest of this hour looking at the final installment of the History Channel miniseries, The Bobble.

And I am so glad. I am so happy. I do not have to watch another episode of that thing. Oh, yeah, it's just a mess. And it is now in, you know, once I'm done with today's episode of Fighting for the Faith, except for the, you know, the emails that might come trickling in, there's nothing, I don't have to revisit this thing.

And I guarantee you that in the future, if I'm ever, if I ever find myself in front of a television flipping channels and I see, you know, scenes from The Bobble, I'll just change the channel and, you know, just leave it at that.

But if you and what we'll do here is on our YouTube channel is we'll put together one long playlist of all of the segments that we've done in critiquing this and and, you know, make that available as kind of a standalone thing.

So if people have questions about The Bobble or concerns or things of that nature, they can they can reference that very long work. And so if anybody, if you know anybody who wants to invite you over for a Bible study and it turns out to be a Bobble study, then you'll be armed to basically say, let's put the DVDs away and let's open up the real Bible.

The book is so much better than the the movie adaptation. And you'll notice the book doesn't omit all the important theological bits. So, yeah, so that's kind of where we're going to go today. And then in our number two, kind of ease into this week, here's what we're going to do this week.

Every day except for Wednesday, Wednesday will be our light edition of Fighting for the Faith. What we will do during the sermon review time, there will be nothing but good, good Easter sermons during this first week.

Now, that's to kind of prepare you, you know, so after listening to this week's good Easter sermons and I'll tell you right up front what it is that we're looking for in good Easter sermons, sermons that stick to a text that has to do with Christ's resurrection doesn't even have to be a gospel text.

You could take a look at First Corinthians, Chapter 15, legitimate biblical text. And there's even Old Testament texts that you can go to that reference Christ's resurrection. If pastor is going to preach from that, totally great with us.

So the sermon has to be from a biblical text that touches on Christ's resurrection. We're not looking for some abstraction of, you know, of resurrection, talking about, you know, Jesus resurrecting your dreams or some such nonsense as that.

No, it has to do with Christ's bodily resurrection from the grave. And it may or may not touch on the fact how that then impacts our future bodily resurrection from the grave. And the pastor needs to be focused on Christ and not himself.

So, you know, those are the ideas what we're looking for. So we're going to feature those types of sermons all this week. While we're doing that, we'll be sifting our way through the submissions that we're already beginning to receive from you, the listeners of Fighting for the Faith for basically this year's Worst Easter Sermon of the Year contest.

And already I think I've got one, possibly two contestants lined up and it's only the day after Easter. But man, there's some rotten Easter sermonage out there that people are more than happy to share with us.

So if you want to submit somebody to be considered or a sermon to be considered for this year's Worst Easter Sermon of the Year contest, which will happen next week, the whole week will be dedicated to nothing but bad Easter sermons that you will then vote on at the end of the week.

Email me at TalkBackAtFightingfortheFaith .com and make sure in the subject header you put Worst Easter Sermon Contestant, you know, something to alert me to the fact that what you're doing is sending me a link to a sermon that you want me to review and we do review every single submission.

So keep that in mind. All right. So with all of that, I think it's probably best if we dive into the program proper. And since this is our last installment of the History Channel miniseries, The Babel, here's our Babel update music.

Change the world, man. That's what Jesus wants us to do. Just go out and change the world. Make sure to say something kind about Jesus when you're out there, you know, changing the world. That's the important part.

All right. That's Eric Clapton from his hit single Change the World. OK, so this is our final installment of the History Channel miniseries, The Babel. And what we're going to do is just kind of walk back through the last bits.

And I mean, the last bits of Christ's death, well not death, but you know, it's post death right at the point of the resurrection. And as I've pointed out, in order to understand the bad theology in this two hour segment of the Babel, you got to look for what's missing.

And since you can't see it, let me tell you one of the important features that's missing, absolutely missing, regarding Jesus's burial. OK, now what I found interesting is that they had Nicodemus actually come to claim the body of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, I think was with him, but they never really recognized him as being present.

So I'm assuming that the guy who was silent with Nicodemus happened to be Joseph of Arimathea, which would be kind of historically important, if you know what I mean. But I thought that was an interesting thing that they did.

But here's what they did. They buried Jesus and they showed a scene where Mary and Nicodemus and the gang were caring for and anointing his body with oils and spices and preparing his body for burial.

And it was a nice touching little scene. Obviously, it's not recorded in the Bible as to the details of how it happened, but we know that that's exactly what happened. So they went ahead and put some details around that and then they closed the tomb.

And you're thinking, OK, well, up to this point, there's not much to quibble with with the Bible. But then you notice something missing. And this is important because it comes in later in the Bible. And the thing that's missing, well, that would be Caiaphas's insistence that the Romans seal the tomb and guard it because they had heard Jesus say that he was going to raise again from the dead.

That was totally missing. In fact, that detail wasn't even hinted at. And there wasn't a single Roman soldier to be found anywhere near Jesus's tomb. Which is actually really important. The reason why it's important is because that then plays into historically how we know whether or not Jesus actually rose from the grave.

But this will come into play later when Caiaphas is really upset with the disciples for healing a beggar and making it so that he can walk and then preaching about Jesus. And the way Caiaphas comes off, no joke, it's as if he's completely oblivious to the fact that Jesus had risen from the grave.

So where we pick up today's audio bites from the Bible is Regina, the 13th female apostle that nobody else knew about. Apparently, I think she's from the Gnostic Gospels. And she was like the first one at the tomb.

You're thinking, well, wasn't Mary? Yeah, I understand Mary Magdalene was supposed to be. But since Regina is the person that we're referring to here, I refuse to call her Mary Magdalene. In honor of our true biblical Christian sister, Mary Magdalene, Regina, the two of them really don't historically look alike at all.

And so I refuse to insult our sister in Christ by calling this character Mary Magdalene. Instead, I continue to refer to her as Regina. So she's the first one at the tomb. She comes back and announces that Jesus is alive.

And well, listen carefully. I'll point out kind of the important phrase that is, well, underwhelming, to say the least. So here's Regina announcing that Jesus is alive.

Everyone is open. He's alive. I saw him. I saw him. Mary, maybe it was someone else. You think I'm mad?

For yourself. So Peter and John head off to the tomb. No sign that the Roman soldiers ever were there. Now, do you believe me? Now, this is supposed to be an exciting thing. He's back. Okay. Now, there's something really underwhelming about this.

Okay. And this kind of plays out in the later depictions regarding what has happened here. Well, the church that I attend and I also serve on Easter Sunday, the pastor is prone to say things like this.

He is risen. And then people would shout back. He's risen indeed. Alleluia. Okay. Well, as you're going to see, there's a lot of confusion as to how they discuss this particular event, the resurrection.

And I'll kind of play that for you as we go. So now the announcement is, oh, he's back. So, I mean, on Sunday morning, do you get up and shout? He's back. He's back indeed. You know, there's something screwy with this with this language.

I think it's a lot stronger than he's back. You know, you get what I'm saying. Well, we continue. So they run back and they're going to end up having it like an impromptu Lord's Supper because of what's going on here.

And then Jesus is going to appear in their midst. And Thomas is going to have his little doubting episode while this is going on. Just listen in blood. Okay. So apparently the news, the well, the empty tomb has prompted Peter to hold an impromptu Lord's Supper.

And so he's reciting the words he heard. I'm the way, the truth and the life omitting the important bits like and nobody comes to the father except for through me. That would be pretty important theology there.

And while he's saying this, presto, blammo, well, Jesus appears. And that sound, that's Jesus coming back. And then Thomas says, no way. No. So he's not believing it. So Jesus approaches Thomas and decides to have a little, you know, some words with him to kind of undo his skepticism and prove that, oh, yeah, this is for sure real.

Nice long pause for dramatic effect. Thomas, stop doubting. Pause, pause, pause. Drama continues. Pause, pause. OK, so he's proven himself to Thomas. And what comes out of Thomas's mouth? Well, listen in and they'll have to do the comparative work because what's missing is super important.

It's mucho importante. Yeah, that's it. So Thomas breaks down and it is you. Yeah. Listen again. If you're underwhelmed, you should be. Hang on. So Jesus says, because you see me, you believe. Believe what?

That it's you, he's back. Huh. OK, now, if you have your Bible, you flip on over to the Gospel of John, Chapter 20, the Gospel of John, Chapter 20. And what we're going to do is we're going to read John's account of the resurrection.

OK, because this is where a lot of the the well edited bits here from this. Week's installments of of the Bible. That's where they're from. And well, the reason why I'm underwhelmed is because there's some really important theology that has ended up on the cutting room floor.

Stuff that I think that viewers of the Bible who think that they're watching the Bible really should know because this is really important Christology and well stuff regarding the resurrection. So we'll start at verse one.

John, Chapter 20, verse one. Now, on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early. Notice it was Mary Magdalene and not Regina. And while it was still dark and the tomb that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciples, the one whom Jesus love, and said to them, they have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they have laid him. So Peter went out with the other disciple and they were going toward the tomb.

Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. That's John's polite way of saying, yeah, I beat Peter to the tomb. OK, so both of them were running.

We got that part. So and stooping in and looking, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb and he saw the linen cloths lying there in the face cloth, which had been on Jesus's head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a place by itself.

And then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in and saw and believed for as yet they did not understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead. And then the disciples went back to their homes.

Now, notice the explanation is not he's back. It's that he had to rise from the dead. OK, you know, he's saying he's back. Sounds like, oh, yeah, you know that Jesus guy. You know, he likes to travel a lot.

And, you know, for the past couple of days, he's been vacationing in Bermuda, you know, you know. Anyway, verse 11. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb and as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain one at the head, one of the feet.

Now, why didn't we get the ninja angels? That's you know, that that would have made this even better. But, you know, I think they they're working with a different theology here. So, OK, we got the two ninja angels joke there at the one at the head and one of the foot where Jesus was.

So they said to a woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, they have taken away my Lord. I do not know where they have laid him. So having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing. But she did not know that it was Jesus.

What's the reason for this? By the way, you'll see that she doesn't really turn fully. The text will explain it to you. Plus, she's been weeping. I don't know if you've ever noticed this. Not that I ever weep because, you know, I'm a guy and we're not allowed to.

But if you've ever spent some time weeping, it's a little difficult to see. And the reason why is because tears have a way of well, messing with the lenses of your eyes and just kind of making it in general difficult to see.

You know what I'm saying? So anyway, so so she said, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? This is Jesus saying this, supposing him to be the gardener. She said to him, sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.

Jesus said to her, Mary. She turned and said to him in Aramaic, Rabboni, which means teacher. Jesus said to her, do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the father, but go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my father and your father, to my God and to your God.

So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord and that he had and that and that he had said these things to her. Now, on the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, peace be with you.

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. And then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, peace be with you as the father has sent me, even so I am sending you.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld. Now, Thomas, one of the 12 called the twin, was not with them when Jesus came.

So the other disciples told him we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, unless I see the hands and the marks of the nails and place my finger into the marks of the nails and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.

Eight days later, his disciples were inside again and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, peace be with you. Then he said to Thomas, put your fingers here and see my hands and put your hand and place it in my side.

Do not disbelieve, but believe. Thomas answered him. Now, here's the important part that was omitted. OK, let me read it to you in Greek first. OK, Thomas answered him saying, Hakurios mu kaihathios mu, OK, which translated means my Lord and my God.

Right here on the, you know, with Thomas's confession that he believes, he's not just saying, oh, it's you, I believe you're back. No, Thomas here in John 20, verse 28, confesses Jesus Christ to be none other than his Lord and his God.

This is vital, important theology that found its way to the cutting room floor of the folks who were responsible for producing the Bible, I mean, the Bible. And so let me let me back this up again. And here's Thomas's great confession from the Bible.

And listen in and see if you notice just how underwhelming this really is. That's right. He said it is you. And then Jesus says, because you see me, you believe because you see me, you believe you believe what?

Well, when we read it back from the actual biblical Bible, sorry for the redundancy. So let me go back. Jesus says, do not disbelieve, but believe. Thomas answered him, my Lord and my God. And Jesus said to him, have you believed because you have seen me?

Blessed are those who have not seen and have yet believed. Believed what? That Jesus Christ is both God and Lord. Not that he's back or, hey, it's you. No, it's hey, you're my Lord and my God. That's what's being proclaimed here in the Bible.

But in the miniseries, the Bible, the great aha moment is, oh, hey, you know, it's it is you. That's that's a neat trick that you did, Jesus, and you're back. It's like, what, what, what, what is going on in this miniseries that they would omit one of the most important, vital, critical theological statements regarding Jesus Christ in all of Scripture, where Thomas confesses Jesus to be Hercules, Mu, Caiaphas, Theos, Mu.

Well, that's not important to the people who produce the Bible. Well, they just think that the important thing is, is that he finally recognized, hey, that's Jesus. But see, the thing is, is that think of it this way, which plays to a larger crowd.

Thomas saying, hey, it is you, Jesus. And then the big aha moment is to say, yeah, that's right. You know that that's in, you know, blessed are you who believe, you know, without seeing that, hey, it's me.

Or, or is that, is that the kind of statement that plays to a larger audience or the, the, the statement that says Jesus is actually the God who created you and he is your Lord. You see, there's a lot of people, if you put Thomas's real statement in there are going to go, oh, whoa, did that, did Thomas just say that Jesus is God?

Yeah, he just did. And Jesus didn't rebuke him for it. Jesus says he's blessed for believing it, but that didn't make it into, well, the Bible. And that's not the only thing that didn't make it in there.

There's some other important stuff, well, that ended up on the cutting room floor. I will fast forward now to the day of Pentecost, at least as it's portrayed in the Bible. And rather than the disciples being told to wait, they're told by Jesus at the point of his ascension to keep asking for the Holy Spirit.

But Jesus tells him to go into Jerusalem and wait. This is what the details we get from the Gospel of Luke, go into Jerusalem and wait. We get this from the book of Acts as well. And so what happens is, is we pick up the disciples on the day of Pentecost and Thomas is being very impatient, very, very, very impatient.

And the reason why he's impatient is because the Holy Spirit hasn't shown up and he's been asking for him every day like Jesus told him to. But well, that little detail is not actually in the Bible. And the thing that Jesus asked the disciples to do was wait.

That's what the Bible says, but not the Bible. So here's the Bible version of this. And there was, let me put it this way. There was one good thing in their depiction of Pentecost, one. But we'll get to that in a second.

Here we go. Yeah, that's Thomas going, when will it come? The Holy Spirit, it, it, not he, because, well, the Bible actually teaches the Holy Spirit is a he. So now Thomas is saying, when will it come?

The Holy Spirit. When will it? Not he, but it. That's bad theology right there. I don't care who you are.

Jesus said, all we have to do is ask. I have been asking. Yeah. He's been asking for the Holy Spirit. The great it. Every day, the Holy Spirit will come.

And that's Peter saying the Holy Spirit will come. The time is right. Right.

I think we should pray together. So they're going to have a prayer around the table who is in heaven.

Now, this is something I like. I like the fact that they're portraying the disciples as praying the Lord's prayer as they were taught to pray by Jesus. I think this is a good touch, not a bad one. Now, I got to say this.

I'm just glad that they didn't end it off with a hail Mary, full of grace. That would have been awkward.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those.

Now that sound that you hear is the arrival of the Holy Spirit as a wind. No tongues of fire are present. Apparently they didn't have the budget to show that they had the budget showed. Well, you know, the entire earth was flooded, which I think is fine, but they don't have the budget to show that the Holy Spirit shows up with tongues of fire.

So everybody outside, I mean, the, the, the, um, the disciples and Regina are in an upper room praying the Lord's prayer. Though this wind starts to whip up and even the people outside are noticing that the wind is kicked up.

Even Caiaphas, the high priest has noticed that the wind has kicked up. Now what you're hearing there, um, that would be the apostle John, all of a sudden declaring the wonders of Christ in Koine Greek.

And then you got Matthew speaking in some other language. And this is Regina now speaking in Latin. I'm just going to pause right there and kind of tell you what's missing here. What's awkward about it is the day of Pentecost is for the most part portrayed as well, the disciples are up in an upper room.

The Holy Spirit comes in like a big windstorm. And then the disciples, while still in the upper room, all of a sudden are able to speak in other languages, but there's nobody else in the room with them to hear them speaking in these other languages, but apparently the way they portrayed it as their voices are carrying out the windows.

And so the people who are within earshot of their windows are hearing the wonders of Jesus being proclaimed to them in other languages. Yeah. And well, then there's something really important that goes missing.

Okay. Number one, the disciples, yes, they were speaking in other languages, which by the way, I think is a great way to depict it because that's exactly what happened. You know, the modern day Pentecostals would have you believing that the, on the day of Pentecost, the disciples were, you know, barking like dogs and, uh, babbling in unknown languages, nothing could be further from the truth.

So I'm glad that he depicted this as actually speaking in known tongues. But what's missing? Well, let's continue. So the disciples are all kind of looking at each other, stunned. Like what just happened?

How can we speak those languages? The Holy Spirit, he is with us.

Okay. So how can we speak at the Holy Spirit's with us? And so they're all marveling. They all have a good laugh and that's the end of the scene. Notice anything missing, you know, like Peter's great Pentecost sermon, where the gospel is proclaimed.

Yeah. Um, that was like, well, totally AWOL. In fact, what we'll do, we'll take a quick break. And when we come back, we'll take a look at the biblical account of the day of Pentecost to see exactly what was omitted from the baubles telling of the story, because I think that was an important detail where we would have really heard the biblical gospel, but we didn't.

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