Hollywood and the Bible

[Darris McNeely] I sometimes wonder just how close we are to certain biblical statements that talk about the end times. On BT Dailies recently, we've had a number where we have covered the recent release of the movie Noah. I want to go back to that one more time. Because in this story, there's a continuing fascination with what's taking place in Hollywood and the Bible as other movies, based on biblical stories, are going to be coming out in the next few months, which I'm sure we'll talk about on future editions of Beyond Today and BT Dailies.

But there was another article that was analyzing this particular movie, the Noah movie that came out, and a watershed event that quite possibly we may have crossed over in our own culture, because it seems now no longer is the Bible looked upon as a sacred text to be respected. The Bible, it seems now, in the eyes of Hollywood, is a book of myth to be treated just like any other fantastic piece of literature, without any regard whatsoever to all that has gone before.

And I think that that is probably what has happened. Sixty years ago, with some of the larger, older biblical epics such as The Ten Commandments – at least there was a certain level of reverence, if not respect, for the Bible as a sacred book for a lot of people. And Hollywood would treat the particular stories such as the Ten Commandments, or Samson, or the Bible in itself in a certain respectful way. With Noah – and we will see what happens with other Biblical movies that come out in Hollywood – you wonder now indeed, as one article is bringing out, have we gone into a situation where there is no longer any reason to treat the Bible as a sacred text, whether out of respect, or to attack it, or to shock its holdout adherence. It is no longer looked upon, as it says here, as the sacred writ of God.

And so when I look into the Bible, and I see what it says in 2 Timothy 3:2, where it talks about certain conditions – social and cultural conditions – in what is called the last days. It mentions that men will be lovers of their own selves, and they will also be blasphemers. And I wonder, when I read that – and I look at what is taking place as an approach toward the Bible, as it is depicted in certain movies, as now being done – have we reached a point of outright blasphemy, where people miss the point and don't care, and really don't understand what is taking place? It's a serious point to consider in our culture today.

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