Sunday, December 6, 2009

New TV Show Idea: Bible Tested

This idea for a tv show is for the History Channel specifically and it's called Bible Tested. It's about putting extraordinary Biblical texts (Old and New Testament the canonical 66 books) into context and figured what is meant by the writings and seeing if there is literal truth or a symbolic meaning and seeing the truth that was meant to be seen in the Holy Scriptures. For example a first season guide:
1) The Flood- look into the measurements of the Ark see if it was practical in making and also in surviving a world deluge based on the material and structure of it described in the Bible and whether the ancestral parents of all Earth's land animals could fit inside.
2) The Ark Of The Covenant- looking into what this key structure of the Old Testament would look like and what was it's functional and symbolic significance the meaning of the colored threads, gold bearrings stones and recurrent numeric themes
3) The Garden Of Eden- looking into where it would have likely been by the 4 rivers and where they meet up testing the geologically and geographically location of it while contemplating whether it was before or after the continents drift. Whether a debate over Asia, Africa or Europe being the birth of civilization would make sense if the Garden only existed on the super continent Pangaea
4) City of Sodom- contemplating where it was and what happened and what were the specific sins that supposedly destroyed including how it originated the term Sodomy and what its original meaning was as well as understanding it's accusations of pedophilia, rape, bestiality, xenophobia and a cruel violent militia
5) The Whale Of Jonah- understanding the probability of a whale being in the Mediterranean Sea during a storm that would swallow Jonah and carry him 3 days before throwing him up and why would Nineveh scare Jonah that much and why it would it end up being forgiven by God
6) The Writing On The Wall- looking at how Biblical history and secular history collided at the Persians taking over Babylon in a single night and whether they match up reliably
7) The Genesis- looking into the sequence of the Creation Account and whether it agrees with what science describes as the beginning of Earthly life and whether the Account is literal or symbolic in the term "days"
8) The World Of Isaiah- Looking at what the world under the Prince of Peace would mean and whether heavenly or earthly and whether real or symbolic specifically the texts of "beat their swords into plowshares" "no resident will say I am sick" "the lamb shall lie down with the lion" "He did not create it merely for nothing"
9) The Four Horsemen- looking into what are the details of the End and seeing whether it is an End or a New Beginning taking a historical and sociological view of how the first horseman would lead to the next and what this implies about future events and how they would differ from other catastrophes or whether it would go by at first undetected
10) The Day The Sun Stood Still- is there an astronomical account of an extended Earth day or whether this could happen and why does it say the Sun stood still when it always does was it ignorance or simplified metaphor for current civilization's own understanding.
11) The Matriarchal Line- looking at the female ancestral line of Jesus and why such women were part of the lineage of the Divine Seed; Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and Mary
12) The Circumcision- What was it's significance and was it self-mutilation or a medical procedure
13) The Kosher Diet- looking at its practicality and whether it was knowable to any other civilization at the time and whether it is an overall truly above average dietary law
14) Blood Fire and Water- What Judaic law had to say about hygiene and how it was practical and how it predated Hippocrates' theories which would confirm it's law