Quote from Forum Archives on October 31, 2003, 11:13 am

Posted by: tincanpuller <tincanpuller@...>

--- Chetin Basaran <bandaddie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> With great interest I watched the history revealed
> series on the Discovery
> channel which claimed to be biographies of Peter,
> Paul and Mary, Mother of
> Jesus.
>
> I am disappointed in no small way, for most of the
> information given was
> into the form of quotes from NT Apocrypha. One would
> have thought the only
> writings produced in Christianity were of Coptic
> allegory fables and Papal
> bulls.
>
> They did use some archaeological data, but rather
> than presenting it as
> theory and supposition, which it is, they treated it
> as pr oven fact. Often a
> small piece of evidence was used to establish large
> statements, and no
> caveats were given.
>
> I was bothered by how they treated Jesus' commission
> of Peter, maybe the
> most discussed and argued chapter of the NT. They
> assigned one meaning only,
> and never touched other possibilities.
>
> All in all, it had more a feel of "yellow sheet
> journalism" than edifying
> information, and thus seemed to build more folk lore
> than faith.

That's why their slogan is "Entertain Your Brain" Not
Educate.

These are the same folks that animate dinosaurs and
make Monster Houses.

The fact is that there is scant history on these
people because although they played key roles in
certain parts of the Bible they were not the central
characters.

So it's entertaining to have the gaps filled in but
certainly nothing that should disturb a believer's
faith. And it may put more meat on thin bones and
make these names a bit more interesting so that
curious non-believers might be stirred to do their on
investigation and be exposed to the "Real" story collaterally.

=====
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where you keep your
stuff while you go
out and buy more stuff

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