The Bible’s Buried Secrets is a two-hour NOVA documentary that is scheduled to air on PBS Tuesday. Glassman, who is the show’s writer, producer and director, describes it as an archaeological detective story that explores how the ancient Israelites were transformed from being a people who worshipped many gods into a people who believed in a single God.
“The traditional story is that Moses authored the first five books of the Bible, but the consensus of most scholars is that it was the work of many hands,” says Glassman.
The film largely accepts the hypothesis of scholars who say those five books represent texts that were written over a period of several hundred years, which were compiled and edited into a form familiar to people today in 536 B.C. after the Jews went into exile in Babylon....
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. :7 THOU SHALT KEEP THEM, O LORD, thou SHALT PRESERVE them from this generation FOR EVER. :8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
C.I. Scofield wrote: GENESIS is the book of beginnings. It records not only the beginning of the heavens and the earth, and of plant, animal, and human life, but also of all human institutions and relationships. Typically, it speaks of the new birth, the new creation, where all was chaos and ruin. With Genesis begins also that progressive self-revelation of God which culminates in Christ. The three primary names of Deity, Elohim, Jehovah, and Adonai, and the five most important of the compound names, occur in Genesis; and that in an ordered progression which could not be changed without confusion. The problem of sin as affecting man's condition in the earth and his relation to God, and the divine solution of that problem are here in essence.... Genesis enters into the very structure of the New Testament, in which it is quoted above sixty times in seventeen books. In a profound sense, therefore, the roots of all subsequent revelation are planted deep in Genesis, and whoever would truly comprehend that revelation must begin here. The inspiration of Genesis and it character as a divine revelation are authenticated by the testimony of Christ (mt 19:4-6; mt 24:37-39; mr 10:4-9; lu 11:49-51; lu 17:26-29,32 ; joh 1:5; joh 7:21-23; joh 8:44,56).
Just another attempt to discredit the Word of God. Anyone who takes anything put out by PBS sereiously needs their head examined. PBS has done more to discredit the Bible than any other T.V. station. This is just one more sign of the last days. Come Quickly Lord Jesus!
Brian Edwards | 7/17/2008
Dr. Alan Cairns | 8/17/2009
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