ABC News Presents The Search for Jesus

Starring:Peter Jennings
Studio: KOCH VISION
Product Type: DVD

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the difference between historical religion and faith religion
The Search for Anything Else
Blasphemeous
Part of a Great Legacy
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ABC News Presents The Search for Jesus
Starring: Peter Jennings
Manufacturer: KOCH VISION
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001BFDKK
Release Date: 2004-04-06

Customer Reviews:

the difference between historical religion and faith religion.......2007-05-30

I've studied religious history for many years and this DVD gets four stars for bringing this issue to main stream television. I will not convince faith believers because they are just as the bible describes them. "SHEEP" For those who read this and want the truth search through the mythologies of not only the Greeks but of all the lands Rome conquered and you will find the truth of where all bible stories from The Garden of Eden to Noah's Ark were plagurized from myths and this is why the bible has no author.

The Search for Anything Else.......2005-09-26

A friend of mine was so insistent that I see this TV show that I ordered it and watched it. Her attitude was, "How can you still think the way you do after seeing this show?"

Actually, now that I've seen it, it's easier to still think the way I do. I believe that Jesus was and is the Son of God and it's going to take a lot more than ABC News to put a dent in that. I'm not a crazed fanatic, I'm just convinced.

What I also believe is that Peter Jennings and the makers of this show have no idea who Jesus was and what he meant. In fact, they appear to deliberately avoid anyone who might illuminate Christ in any other way than they see him: most of the "scholars" interviewed all have the same exact view of Christ. That several of them belong to the Jesus Seminar, an odd group of arrogant blowhards who exist to draw publicity and tear Christianity down, throws the entire show's credibility out the window.

They talk about Jesus taking advantage of political situations, bending social meanings and disregarding huge chunks of biblical accounts. Not for one second do they ever consider the possibility that God and the supernatural play any role in the life of Christ. Some of the scholars look like they're ready to keel over with convulsions rather than admit that Jesus was anything more than a really super guy!

The title of this show includes the word Search...but they never bother to look anywhere outside of what they want to find.

There are some nice shots from the modern Holy Land though.

Blasphemeous.......2005-09-10

Perhaps it would have atleast been a balanced interview if Josh McDowell,Lee Strobel,William Lane Craig or Ravi Zacharias had been able to comment instead of it being biased and one sided from the rather apparent self proclaimed scholar, John Dominic Crossan. As well as four of the seven 'scholars' who belong to the Jesus Seminar!

**After analysis and discussion of a saying attributed to Jesus, members of the seminar voted on whether they thought the saying goes back to Jesus himself by casting one of four differently colored beads into a ballot box.
A red vote means, "I think these are the authentic words of Jesus"; pink means, "A close approximation of what Jesus said"; gray means, "Not Jesus' words, though they may reflect his ideas"; and black means, "Inauthentic; definitely not spoken by Jesus."

So basically, if you prefer to weigh your faith on the out come of colored beads, then this is for you. Other wise don't waste time and money.

Part of a Great Legacy.......2005-08-11

I wanted to give this video five stars for one, in order to thwart the religious zealouts who feel by their one-star ratings there are absolutely no redeeming qualities to this report and who hope to discourage others from buying it, and two, to pay tribute to the late Peter Jennings and honor what will now be seen as part of his enduring legacy. He had the curiosity of a child and the doggedness of a pitbull, and I could trust that he pandered to nobody in the search for truth. I watched this show when it was on the air with my aunt who herself died only a month ago; we both learned from it, and I will add this DVD to my collection in memory of both of them.

Review of reviews.......2005-04-29

M.Read's review said, among other things, "Actually, the MANY books of the Bible were not written during the time of Jesus. They were written, and re-written 100 to 400 years after his life on earth."

He goes on to scorn those of us "who only believe what they have been taught in a building on Sunday morning."

Unfortunately, every assertion he makes is _INCORRECT_. Every single archaeological find containing books of the Bible, from the Dead Sea scrolls to the Nag Hammadi scrolls to 1st-2nd century copies of the Bible, shows that its content has been remarkably -- one might even say supernaturally -- free from transcription errors. Mr. Read is not telling us facts, but only what he chooses to believe, based on essentially zero data.
Maybe he would have done better to walk into that building, and listen.

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