Hollywood Just Made a Show Depicting Genesis! Is It Worth Watching?
Answers in Genesis | 22 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TmErhLvgCc
4:08 There is a certain shtick in modernist theology, like Catholic "clergy" in communion with at least Ratzinger, Bergoglio and Prevost here in France, probably already Wojtyla, to pretend "Abraham was born in a Pagan family"
This is obviously based in part on Joshua 24:2, but they are over doing that.
And I'd say that Ussher had a finger in the play too. Abram was born when Thare was 70 c., not when he was 130, as Ussher wanted to deduce from:
Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell
[Acts Of Apostles 7:4]
Ussher took this as when his physical actual father (not grand or great-grand, just father per se) was physically dead.
If so, and if grand and dad were already idolaters, that would mean Abram was born to a culture of idolatry. A cradle pagan.
I dispute this. Stephen very probably meant when the physical father, Thare, was spiritually dead, i e the idolatry of dad started when Abram was already 75 or when the spiritual father (like Sarug, not mentioned as idolater by Joshua, or like a servant preserving the God-tradition, like Eliezer or his dad) had physically died.
So, when God spoke to Abram, both he and Sarai already knew which God, and probably Abram was as nearly educated for such a thing as Samuel.
10:30 [matriarchs, Sarah is strong and is taking the decisions]
Rip off from beginnings of Islam, as traditionally told?
Hadidja really was stronger than Mohammed (if that happened, there seem to be some doubts), and Muslims, after Mohammed, venerate the "mothers of the faithful" who, apart from his daughter Fatima were his multiple wives, except perhaps the Egyptian Christian who seems to have remained Christian.
Perhaps also a bow to the psychiatric view that Abraham was a schizophrenic, fake diagnosis, but from those believing this a madman, and in that case, obviously he would have been incompetent to handle the affairs of the tribe.
19:05 Again, some shrinks are into pretending Abraham was schizophrenic, I think the show is catering to this.
As for the physical power balance, Abraham had already tied Isaac, and there were presumably others around who could have prevented him from defending himself, if that had been the kind of deal the story was about. Not unlike some shrinks being weak people but always out of reach if a patient wants to defend himself.
22:18 "because he was old"
On this item, I would exonerate the show.
Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am
[Genesis 27:1]
The Bible doesn't say that Isaac was dim eyed simply because of old age, and lots of people do retain good eye-sight. One condition that could cause blindness or impaired eye-sight and get worse in old age is diabetes. Some other sicknesses conducive to blindness are smallpox perhaps chicken pox, and when I had that, I was put in a room with dimmed light and red wall paper so as to spare my eyesight. Its recurrence shingles can also impair eyesight.
So, this item per se is not a fault, though a change in dioptres over aging can also do it. But that change has lots to do with modern life, like lots of reading ... which I presume was less an issue back then.
23:16 On this issue, I would say, that predestination is aided by the prayers of the saints.
Jacob was elect. However, he would not have been in heaven now if he hadn't been born, and he was born because his mother prayed.
Standard argument for our prayers, but ultimately also other actions actually making a difference, not for God electing, but for how that election comes to fruition. Against Calvinism.
28:31 Narcigesis?
I think you may have a kind of problem doctrinally, in accepting, perhaps promoting, the diagnosis "narcissism" ...
Have you heard what Tovia Singer says about Jesus?
The thing isn't a person who considers himself a Christian and you consider a narcissist is Jesus, it's:
For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?
[Luke 23:31]
If Jesus struck him as a narcissist, obviously he'll find Christians narcissists as well. I'm worried when Protestant "Christians" take a Jewish view of morality and mental health.
29:01 It very much did matter what Rebecca did.
Most specially her prayer, obviously.
The Roman Catholic blessing for a first time bride who's a virgin involves a prayer that she may have the qualities of Sarah, Rebecca, Lea and Rachel.
Rebecca's quality in this context is wisdom.
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