first sonni away. abraham for better or worse is used to hearing god s voice and in one day as we re told in genesis 22, god decides to test abraham and he says take your son, your only son whom you love and offer him as a sacrifice at the place that i will show you. god was telling abraham to kill his own son. you would think that that story is so bar bar rick it would die out. jews read it, christians read it in the holiest week of the year, easter, muslims read it in their holiest week of the year.
egypt, land of the farrows, home to one of the world s greatest civilizations, a kingdom that dominated for 3,000 years, the same as the bible. the egyptian landscape is littered with the remains of the ancient past and in dusting off the rouens, archaeologists found clues about the empire s captivating culture and the truth behind the stories of the bible. the question really is how much historical information is really in the bible? the story in the story is what we are trying to get at. can i get your entrance? my son darrius and i journal flee knee to see what, if anything is grounded in fact.
from the stage hands to leading actors is christian. before every performance, they pray together. what we do, is we seek the lord in prayer. what s the story you think is relevant to today? but also, the stories in the bieblg are enriched with the twists and turns and the drama we re looking for, particularly the epic stories of the testament. you can take a seat of rocks, are russianed at sight and sound. these are the most comfortable rocks. i got a behind the scenes tour from joseph himself. playing joseph, your name is joseph, right? joey, right? joseph. joey believes that like joseph from the bible, god has a plan for him, too. my mom had a child and he passed, and my mom woke up in the middle of the night and said that god had told her that she would restore the son that she
wow. exhaustion and a couple of close calls took their toll. she risked life and limbs scaling these heights driven on by her renewed catholic faith. we were all raised in the church. you know, i fell away for awhile, and i did some things that today i would never do, but i returned to the church, and i m living my life more like i used to. and she s recording this experience to spread the message of a story that so deeply affected her. the entire human civilization was wiped out except the eight people on the ark and we came down from them. i believe it happened and landed on the mountain and that it s still there. the last cave has the writing. she also made videos to send to her children at home.
range and why some people come to harm and hate each other in the first children, the first siblings. cane is a sheppard and able is a farmer, both are for sacrifices to god, but god likes able better. this is about life as we know it, and life as we know it is not fair. we feel the pain of those god hasn t chosen. in a fit of jealousy, cane kills his brother able. this was sort of the first example that we ever saw of murder, and, you know, the gravity with which god holds the taking of another human life. and yet, with the passage of thousands of years, humankind is still at it. as surely as cane killed able, the slaughter of innocence continues in the very place the bible tells us this story was set, today s syria. racked by the most brutal of