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Bill Medart · #1 (**permalink**) 07-22-08, 01:41 PM

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The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), probably the most liberal network in America, will present a program this fall that says the Old Testament is a bunch of made-up stories that never happened. "The Bible's Buried Secrets" says the Bible is not true. It is scheduled to air on November 18.

Producer Paula Apsell said: "...It's (The Bible's Buried Secrets) designed for intelligent people who are willing to change their mind. …it will give intelligent people who want to read the Bible in a modern way a chance. If we insist on reading the Bible literally, in 25 years, nobody will read it any longer."

Among highlights of "The Bible's Buried Secrets":

• The Old Testament was written in the sixth century BC and hundreds of authors contributed.
• Abraham, Sarah and their offspring didn't exist.
• There is no archaeological evidence of the Exodus.
• Monotheism was a process that took hundreds of years.
• The Israelites were actually Canaanites.
• The Israelites believed that God had a wife.

I have often said that PBS should not receive tax dollars. "The Bible's Buried Secrets" is simply one more reason Congress should stop supporting PBS with our tax dollars. Congress gives PBS hundreds of millions of tax dollars to help support the network.

For more information, go here.

I used to like PBS but I'm beginning to wonder if this is just one more chance for "ultra liberal" propaganda to be issued to the general public. This bulletin was issued by the AFA (American Family Association).

Bill Medart · #2 (**permalink**) 07-22-08, 01:51 PM

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orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/orl-exodus2108jul21,0,7755323.story

OrlandoSentinel.com
Holy Moses! PBS documentary suggests Exodus not real
Hal Boedeker

Sentinel Television Critic

July 21, 2008

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

Abraham didn't exist? The Exodus didn't happen?

The Bible's Buried Secrets, a new PBS documentary, is likely to cause a furor.

"It challenges the Bible's stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people," says archaeologist William Dever, who specializes in Israel's history. "But it explains how and why these stories ever came to be told in the first place, and how and why they were written down."

The Nova program will premiere Nov. 18. PBS presented a clip and a panel discussion at the summer tour of the Television Critics Association.

The program says the Bible was written in the sixth century BC and that hundreds of authors contributed.

"At least the first five books of the Bible come together during the Babylonian exile," says producer Gary Glassman.

The program challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.

"These stories are unlikely to represent real historical events, but rather there's some kernel of ancient experience in there which has survived and which helps give identity to the people at the time the Bible finally took shape centuries and centuries later," Meyers says.

There's no archaeological evidence of the Exodus, either, she says, but "it doesn't mean that there's no kernel of truth to it."

Nova series producer Paula Apsell says she found it "extremely shocking" to learn that monotheism was a process that took hundreds of years.

"I was always brought up to believe that the minute Abraham and the patriarchs came on the scene, the Israelites accepted one God and there was just always one God and that was it," Apsell says. "I think people are going to really be stunned by that."

Another shocker: The program contradicts the biblical view that the Israelites came from somewhere else into the land of Canaan. "The film shows that they were Canaanites," Apsell says.

Steven Rasberry · #3 (**permalink**) 07-22-08, 02:34 PM

If a bunch of people walked across the desert today, in a week, there would be no evidence of it.

Also, if you go by Egyptian history on their walls, they would look perfectly victorious. They did not spend much time documenting their failures to be passed down for milinia.

Lastly, if a people had no idols and worshiped God as God designed it, there would be nothing left to show evidence of it. Time would degrade the items away.

For 30 years a congregation of the Lord worshiped in Bishoen, Osaka, Japan. I know because I worked with that congregation for 3. Today they are meeting in another place and the little apartment they met in during that time has been town down and another building has been built. If you tore down the new building, even today, you would find no evidence God was worshiped there.

God's people did not worship idols or icons. Those that sinned did. Later on some that had some symbols such as a fish or the cross and that can be found in some areas but the existance of a cross in itself does not prove a believer worshiped there since you can go into any sin ridden disco this weekend and find the cross hanging on many a girl's neck.

We have to be wise and not thrown back by such puffed up and unbelieving sinners.