QUESTIONS ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES ON ‘THE BIBLE”
Adult Bible Study
March 20 2013 Charles e Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher/Shepherd
1a When you set down an watched “THE BIBLE” as they say 68
million have, what did you see? And how
did if it did effect you?
2A What do you think those who view this mini series are going to
think about God, Jesus Christ, The Bible itself?
3A What are those who are not Christians going to say about the
Bible? I would say that the 68 million
who watch the film say they are Christians?
4S Do you believe that all say they are
“Christian” are born again, have been converted?
5A Would you say that those who wrote the series and produce the
series have put in their own view of the Bible?
6A What do you think of the New Age Movement?
7A What do you think of Rick Warren, Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes
they were the consultant for the series.
8A Do you know what Warren, Osteen and
Jakes teach?
9A Do you know what they New Age
Spiritualist teach?
10 Do you see any problem with a rewrite of
the stories in the “The Bible?”
11 I know we can mishandle a movie like the “Hoosiers” but is it
okay to mishandle the content of the Bible?
12 Bill O’Reilly says in the interview with Roma Downey and Mark
Barnett says he is a Christian and he
says that there are many passages in the Bible that he does not take literally.
Whereas Roma says she is a Christian and Biblically sound Christians and she
claims to believe the bible is literal.
13 The term “Christian” now can be viewed
as someone who is also “A New Ager.”
14 I realize Winfrey, Downey and Burnett are not alone. Many New
Agers call themselves “Christians”. But a New Ager cannot be a true, born again
Christian, and a true, born again Christian cannot be a New Ager.
15 In various interviews you have stated
you are a Christian, have known Jesus all your life, are born again, and have
accepted Jesus as your Saviour. How do you define “Christian” and “born
again”? And when exactly did you become born again? That is, when did you have
that “crisis conversion experience”? (That is, the specific event on a certain
date truly born again Christians point to, when they repented of their sinful
past and accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour.) Also, please explain your
understanding of John Chapter 3, in which Jesus describes how to be born again.
16 Do you believe Jesus is the only way to
Heaven? Or do you believe many paths lead to God? How do you explain this
verse?: “Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,
but by me” (John 14:6).
17
Do you believe most people –
regardless of their religion – will make it into Heaven? If so, how do you
explain this passage?
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7:13-14).
18 In your worldview, how does God
determine who makes it into Heaven, and who does not? Do you believe this
passage?: “He that
believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
(John 3:18-19).
19 Do you believe in the eternal
punishment of the wicked (those who reject Christ) in the Lake of Fire, as the
Bible says? If not, how do you explain this passage?: “the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Rev. 21:8).
20 You say you have been born again.
According to this verse, a person who is born again will forsake their old,
sinful ways: “Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new” (II Cor. 5:17). Have you
forsaken your sinful, ungodly beliefs? Specifically, have you renounced the
false teachings of the following: Roman Catholicism, Celtic “Christianity”,
Della Reese (New Thought), John Edward (Rosary-praying psychic medium),
John-Rogers (New Age), Eckhart Tolle (New Age), etc.? If you have not forsaken
any of these false teachings, how can you claim to be born again?
21 Do you know who Eckhart Toller is and
what he teaches?
22 Can you be a Roman Catholic,
Celtic, New Ager, and Christian?
23 Do you know what is Spiritual Psychology?
24 So this New Age woman and her husband
want to go on Focus on the Family and laugh and talk about the Holy Spirit and
their love for the Bible, and this call that God placed on their lives to make
a Hollywood movie of His favorite book.
25 When you heard your faviorite actor or singer was a
homosexual did it change your view of them and what they said? What if you
learned that they were “New Agers” or believed in “Spiritual Psychology?
26 What would you think of a person whose
teacher is Eckhart Toller: who is a New Age teacher and adds to the Bible his
Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shintoist philosophy? He was listed by the Walkins Review s the most spiritually
influential person in the world and the most popular spiritual author in the
United States.
27 If you say you really enjoy watching THE
BIBLE what are you saying about it?
28 Have you said, “Well, I really have not seen anything thing
that I can say I believe is wrong? Am I missing something?
29 Should the executive producers of The Bible be as responsible
for making sure that the script from the series would be as close to the truth
as the Pastor/Teacher would be when he is teaching the Word of God?
