I´m not about to watch anything produced by today´s revisionist liberals.To me, the Lincoln movie was a flop because they tried to make him a civil rights leader at the time.Of course the comparison you´re supposed to draw is Obama is a modern day Lincoln.

The left wants to make Christianity look like a cult and historical fabrication to discredit people of faith.They´ve already destroyed a great deal of morality in this country and obama is as far from a moral leader as you can get.

Spot on Poster #1.

I was looking forward to this, but the ninja angel at Sodom and Gomorrah had me scratching my head. Then when they totally left off the story of Jacob and Esau and Joseph and his brothers, and cut from the sacrifice of Isaac to the slavery of the Jews in Egypt, I went on a rant.

I know that the producers had to make cuts, but to leave out Jacob and Joseph!!! Really.

I´ll give it another try Sunday, but I don´t think it will be much good.

Oh, by the way. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey the producers are Christians. This is their vision and I am sad to say, so far I am not impressed.

Some instinct told me not to watch this. I am glad I took the warning as I do not need the aggravation.

Gosh if you want the whole Bible -then read it.
I get tired of everything being nit-picked and looked at in a political way. Someone has to pay for this program and it can only be so long with the attention span of today´s tv viewers who prefer dumb stuff like Broke Girls. Give Burnett and Downey a break.

Agreed #6, this series is meant to spark interest in the Bible itself, hoping to motivate people to want to look into it further. Give the producers credit for making this bold move. Roma Downey of Touched-by an Angel fame has a pretty good track record of credibility in my opinion.

The movie is never as good as the book.

I gave it a try but gave up after the first night. If I´m going to spend time watching an inaccurate version of the Bible I´ll watch ´Jesus Christ Superstar´, at least that has great music.

What #6 & #7 said. If you stop to think about the millions who have never opened the Book, then if the TV documentary even provokes a few of them to read even a few verses, the show will have been a success. Having read the Book, I for one enjoyed the show as I was able to fill the omissions and commissions without being overly critical.

Aw, come on, people. I´m not about to defend Ho´wood liberals, nor do I want to cast aspersions on my beloved husband. But I´ve been reading the Bible, mentioning from time to time some of the stories in the Old Testament, and this TV production got him interested enough to learn more.

Hubby is a dear, sweet man but he was raised nonreligiously. He´s a good man and believes there is a God, but he has just never studied it.

Now, he wants to. Can we give them credit for those like my husband who now might be more interested in picking up the original? I am thankful.

The movie skips over most of Genesis--which is where a lot of the best narratives are (Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Joseph in Egypt, Jacob´s ladder, etc.) But it did show the most important, which was the story of Abraham. Believe it or not, a lot of people don´t know this story. I heard someone, who was Jewish, say it was Moses who was asked to sacrifice his son. It´s better to get part of the story than none, in my opinion.

Mark Burnett was the producer of "Sarah Palin´s Alaska" and "Stars Earn Stripes," featuring Todd Palin. The Palins wouldn´t do business with a Godless leftist, would they?

I haven´t watched it, but heard someone say the acting was on a par with America´s Most Wanted.

# - 13 No matter the subject, one just cannot resist a derogatory intentioned remark about Gov. Palin. Most likely would not harm some to make an effort to watch the series and then look into the scriptures.
One could easily say something is missing from the life of one who makes such a pointed effort to attach Gov. Palin´s name at any opportunity in a ´negative´ way.

When God finally gets angry enough and wants to get our attention he will not need to use a low budget movie with ninja angels . He won´t need WalMart to sponsor him . Even Democrats and Muslims will awaken from their stupor and pay attention. Omama -Biden stickers will be replaced with "honk if you love Jesus"

In today´s TV world or media world in general where anything Christian is avoided like the plague, I commend Burnett and Downey for their efforts. I have read the Bible and still read it. The movie is not going to be as good as the book but perhaps it will entice some to open the Bible for the first time. The History channel is doing a good thing. The unbelievers and those who ridicule Christians have a ready platform on most all of the channels and programs to spew their hate. The source of my faith comes from the Bible....God´s word!

Spot on #8. Skimming over the Old Testament did no favors to the Bible, IMHO. The movie Ten Commandments, was 3 hours or more. That covered only Moses. Some even think Charlton Heston was Moses. At least the producers could say their production was an overview of the Bible, not title the series The Bible. IMHO, the series is lacking, too many omissions, such that too many people could get the wrong impression of the Book called the Bible. I did like that fact that the production showed the place that Abraham (Abram) has in history and the Ishmael/Issac situation.

I will NOT watch "The Bible" on the History Channel... period. I do not want to see the media´s spectacle about a God in whom they do not believe and a Christ they despise.

Why do we giggle with delight when the popular culture slaps us only a little bit? We are so grateful they don´t slap us too hard.

The producers said they were inspired to do this series while watching "The Ten Commandments" with their children and the kids howled with laughter because they thought it was so hokey and they wanted to do something more realistic.

Sadly, in my opinion, they failed. Their production is going to be every bit as dated as DeMille´s "Ten Commandments"--which I think is still far better--with their Ninja angels and Samson the Rastafarian. Don´t think it´ll stand the test of time. And...DeMille did a far better crossing of the Red Sea than Barnett and Downey did.

I doubt that we will ever again see bible-based movies made on an epic scale by Hollywood. So Cecil B. deMille didn´t direct this production, and Edith Head wasn´t available for costume design. And they didn´t have a word-for-word recitation of the bible in King James´ English. That doesn´t mean the series wasn´t effective in reaching some people.

I tuned in late, coming in just as Abraham is taking Isaac out into the desert.

Having just read a book i\on the concept of the "Beloved Son," the substitution of a lamb instead of a ram was quite striking -- and a wonderful example of (I assume) unintentional Christian bias.

Lamb provided by God to save Isaac equals Lamb of God provided by God to save all of us (aka Jesus Christ.)

After this deep and serious subject was given short shrift, the whole crew then went to Eqypt -- with me scrambling, trying to figure out why Abraham would be going to Egypt AFTER this event. I finally realized we were skipping ahead three generations.

Perhaps this program might get some people interested in the Bible, but all it did was confuse me and seem to me so shallow, it could hardly elicit someone´s interest.

Not to mention, the drearily reverential, hackneyed backgroud music gave me a headache.

If this Mark Burnett is the one who produced Sarah Palin´s Alaska & Stars Earn Stripes then I´ll give him the benefit of the doubt that his intentions are to be respectful of the Bible. Stars Earn Stripes was definitely respectful of our military & I enjoyed it so much. "Star" Dean Cain fawned all over Chris Kyle when he learned they were paired as a team - deservedly so.

After hearing all the hype I was very disappointed.

If you want Hollywood to pay a attention to the Christians, Christians should watch, or TiVo, this series. No, it will not have your favorite story. Get over it and support fellow Christians and their work bother wise stop complaining about there being nothing good on television.

I don´t know the Bible very well at all. CBN recommended the series The Bible and I watched it. I really liked it. I know more now. But I was puzzled by some things, life was harsh in the old testament, for instance killing all the first born. They were just innocences. I will watch the rest of the series though to learn more. Thumbs up!

For what its worth..Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arrolo spoke very highly of this series. I decided to skip show one because I thought it would be like other ´History´ channel shows like Storage wars or Pawn Stars. Bible
Wars... brought to you by Barnes and Noble.I might give it a look.

If you guys hate how two avowed Christians have told this story so far, you will really hate the story of Noah coming out next year I believe. Word has it they are turning Noah into somekind of environmentalist. They did choose a good actor though, Russell Crowe.

Like so many ventures into religion, this series has it´s positives and negatives. It really is a "tickle your ears" approch to God´s word. Having said that, it is also by leaps and bounds better than the typical TV fare that we have been inundated with over the last few decades. The only harm I see from such a production as this, is that there really are people out there who take whatever "hollywood" puts on the screen (TV or movie) as "reality. They will accept it as "real" and have it shape their views. In this case, the truth is a victim and those that accept this production as such, will be the losers in the long run. People should accept it for what it is, a financially/ideologically motivated production that was done under the guise of "entertainment". Nothing more, nothing less.

Mohammed was NEVER Abraham´s "other child." He was the interloper that stole and harrassed and lied his way into the religious world.

The History Channel is a rather poetic name for a reality TV based organization.

I was saddened when I had seen they were going to explain the Bible to everyone.

If you are ever compelled to read the Bible, it explains quite well what is happening in this world, and why the likes of the history channel have to tell insulting out-right lies about God´s Word.

If you want to know about Gods Word, read the Bible, pray and go to church. Its that easy.

If you want to know & believe the lies, watch the history channel.

The stories in the Bible don´t need embellishments, they are exciting and inspirational on their own. Sad to see these two put so much time into this series while at the same time refusing to stay true to the stories. We watched the first one but were very disappointed.

geez, we finally get Christians with the ability to get a message out there and we complain it is not good enough! It is a verry long book, you can´t cover everything to suit everybody

#26, I´m with you. When my brothers and I were young, our grandmother gave us a Hurlbut´s Story of the Bible. We devoured it, but I worried for a long time about how to please God, because poor Job tried and tried and something was always upsetting God, anyway. Only in adulthood did a seminarian explain that relationship in a way I could comprehend.

Kudos to Roma and her husband for getting the message out. We lament the people who know nothing about anything important and here is a decent effort to help those who never heard the Word.

Give it a rest, theologians, God reaches us all differently and in ways we can understand.

I once read a story about a man who was ready to commit suicide, but kept hearing the words from his daughter´s Veggie Tales videos and gave his life to Christ instead. And all he heard was the voice of a tomato character saying: "God loves you very much."
...and he decided to believe it.

There´s power in Word, no matter how it´s presented.

Although we also noticed the omissions of pivotal Scriptural events recorded in Genesis, as well as the emphasis diverted to others in this film, it does seem to be a quality production. The movie presents a sort of too rapid timeline through so many years of history and, as such, simply cannot dramatize everything in this movie series.

However, we know that God´s word, ´´will not return void,´´ so hopefully viewers will be inspired by this admirable, yet flawed, production to read the Bible for themselves, beginning with Genesis, and then they will be able to sort out the events from film´s descrepencies. The timeline format reveals the lineage leading to the birth of the Messiah.

I saw the first episode and it wasn´t that bad.

It´s entertainment - not theology. I don´t expect secular television and actors, producers and directors to provide religious instruction.