History's 'The Bible' sets home-video sales record.

[Denis]

High-Church Anglican

Known by my evangelical relatives as ' Smells and Bells '

Essential altar-boy lore: if your eyes aren't watering and you don't have a thc buzz, your thurible needs a refill and some wrist action.

[MarkD]

High-Church Anglican

Known by my evangelical relatives as ' Smells and Bells '

Essential altar-boy lore: if your eyes aren't watering and you don't have a thc buzz, your thurible needs a refill and some wrist action.

I once dropped a coal from the thurible onto the carpet. I looked down at it, looked up a the priest, who mouthed "pick it up".

I saw a fellow acolyte get too close to the altar while censing the priest, hit the altar, and dump the contents on top of said altar. The altar guild was not happen with the ruined linens.

[Denis]

I once dropped a coal from the thurible onto the carpet. I looked down at it, looked up a the priest, who mouthed "pick it up".

Old school! If it didn't burn you, you were worthy

[AlaskaTRX]

I DVRed it and watched it. Pretty good series, although the actor who played Jesus seemed to be just reading his lines, I didn't find him too convincing.

I watched one episode and came away convinced that it was put together by the Mormons or someone else of non-Christian faith. Christians believe in the triune God, to which this series did not support, in and of the fact that when they show Jesus being baptized by John they totally left out the Holy Spirit descending and God the Father speaking (Matthew 3:13-17 / Mark 1:9-11 / Luke 3:21-22).

There were other times when they had opportunities to have the actor playing Jesus quote directly from the scripture, but they chose not to. So I'm really not sure how you can call a TV series "The Bible" and then not use it verbatim when available. Seemed disengenuine to me.

Maybe this was supposed to be Mormon Jesus, because it wasn't an accurate Christian Jesus.

To each his own, however...

[Jericho941]

There were other times when they had opportunities to have the actor playing Jesus quote directly from the scripture, but they chose not to. So I'm really not sure how you can call a TV series "The Bible" and then not use it verbatim when available.

Vernacular.

[toad]

Well there are hard core and then there are hard core fundamintalists. The ministers that come out of some of the small fry seminaries tend to be a bit on the theological light side. The ones that go for their docterate at Christian Universities tend to end up a bit more tolerant. They have to be fairly decent on the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and other languages as well a knowledgeable about Church history and significant pre and post Reformation theologians plus pre Christian philosophers.
Also while some of the seminarian graduates are locked on to the King James version, the recommendations of generic Southerm Baptist ministers for Bibles are: 43% New American Standard, 41% New King James,38% New International Version (The NIV version 4 got a down turn by a lot because it introduced "gender neutral" language). The complaint about the King James Version is while the writing is great, there are inaccuracies and it can be difficult for the "average" educated person to understand.
Probably the most notorious oops in the King James Version is in the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
It turns out that ancient Hebrew used the same word for murder and for kill and was differentiated by placement and modifier's in a sentence, context in other words. These day it is thought it should read, "Thou Shalt Not Murder."
"Welcome to Hell.":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-owUaSetM

[Netpackrat]

There were other times when they had opportunities to have the actor playing Jesus quote directly from the scripture, but they chose not to. So I'm really not sure how you can call a TV series "The Bible" and then not use it verbatim when available. Seemed disengenuine to me.

They probably felt that a mini-series filmed using dead and ancient languages would have a limited market appeal.

[Lokidude]

Maybe this was supposed to be Mormon Jesus, because it wasn't an accurate Christian Jesus.

To each his own, however...

Seeing as the first two books of LDS Scrpiture are the Old and New Testaments of the King James Version of the Bible, I'm pretty sure that the Jesus I studied as a Methodist growing up is the same one I study now as a Mormon.

[Denis]

I'm pretty sure that the Jesus I studied as a Methodist growing up is the same one I study now as a Mormon.

In case you're working through the denominations in alphabetical order, you missed "Millerite".

[Denis]

... their beliefs are weird... but they are Christians.

You repeat yourself, no?