Abraham (The Bible Collection)

This DVD stays right along the way It is writen in the NIV! I thought the filming of the region was the "Best"! Abraham (Richard Harris ) Is Just the Best! Not only the lines He says but the way He uses His Body actions!Sharah was a prefect match for Him! I can't imagine handing My husband to another woman to have " make Love" to get Her pregnant because You haven't conceived! Yet,This DVD makes it just like it was! Sharah was in her 60's & waited a baby! but She was so mean to Hargar & treated Her girl servant like She hated Her, When She was asked to be involved with Abraham Hagar was good enough Sharah was 65 & too old to conceive? But because She was so cruel Hagar ran away !However She met a Angel who told her She needed to return!) She was going to have Ishmael! He will be as strong as a "Wild Donkey"!His hand will be against everyone & everyone's hand will be against Him! When Ishmael was born Abraham was 86 years old! He said When Abraham was99 years old the Lord appeared To Him & He Commanded ! Lord said "I am the Lord Almighty Walk beside Me & be Blameless!I will confirm My covenant between Me & you & You will greatly increase Your Numbers!Abram fell facedown & God said to Him I will confirm My covenant You will be the Father of Many nations.No Longer will You be Abram but Your name will be called Abram: Your Name will be called Abraham! As the father of many nations I will make You very fruitful!But this is My convenant with You,You willKeep Every male among You to be circumcised ! & all Your Decescendantsfor all generations 8 days old little boys need to have this done!than He has the 3 angels appear & They tell Abraham next Year They will be back & Sharah will have a SON! Sharah was making bread & She heard this & laughed!I will bless Her so She will be the Mother of all nations!Kings of people will fall before Her!Sharah was 90 when Isaac! She did laugh & the Lord said Yes,You did!Than They went through the Story of Sodem & Gomorrah & how evil the people were! Abraham started at 50 & went down to 10 good men if They lived there He wouldn't destroy them! We all know Lots wife disobeyed & did look back & was turned into a pillar of salt!Of course We know the story He had to destroy the town because everyone in it was so evil with sin there was no way of changing them! Almost like our Country today!Of course Lot & his wife & 2 girls were caution several times "DO NOT LOOK BACK?was the LAST WORDS THAT WERE SAID SEVERAL TIMES BUT LOTS WIFE DISOLBEYED! It is a good DVD to have Your Children to watch as soon as You have explained the part Abraham played as the" Father of ALL Nations!" He was a Man who Truly loved Our Lord & really did not care what He had to do(even if We would find it easier to not be totally honest! Yet,His "Strong Self disipline" Man WHO WANTED to do above & Beyond What Was "RIGHT"! Nothing was MORE important or comes second to His GOD!They put more verses of the bible in there ! But what I appreciate it is because my grand children watched it with them!The God almighty does not take disobedience & refusual to admit it is disobedience (AS it is so east to do especially in the middle 80's on! Actually,it started in the seventies because it was so bad I had to pay for Christian education! Now,depending on where You live there are many things that has caused Drugs,divorce,lack of committment to jobs or anything else!However,I loved the way this movie stayed with with the Bible a lot!

If life was anywhere near as dreary and depressing back then as this movie depicts people really didn't have much to live for. Their main goal in life was getting enough food and water for themselves and their livestock. People at that time weren't much more than cave men or basically animals themselves. Throughout the movie Abraham looks like he hasn't washed his hair in weeks and he appears to be constantly dying of thirst. He looks to be about 200 years old when the movie starts so I don't know how old he's supposed to be at the end.The only humorous event in the entire movie was when God tells Sarah she will have a child when she was about 90 years old. She laughed which is what the name 'Isaac' means.Abraham believed in a single God while other around him believed in many gods. This has been a source of conflict from the beginning and caused the eventual destruction of Atlantis.A very frightening event in Abe's life was when Sarah was kidnapped to become a sexual slave of the evil Egyptian pharoah. It's impossible to know what a person like this would have been capable of doing to a female who refused to submit to their will. (Barbara was in that nice movie called 'The Entity'.) God sent a fever on the entire Egyptian population so that the evil pharoah would return Sarah and let the Hebrews go away. God sending diseases and death on people is nothing to fool around with.There are many similarities between the lives of Abraham and Moses. Both had problems with the Egyptians who represent the belief in many gods which included injustice and oppression of others. The Egyptians at that time represented the mysterious occult world.The pharoahs claimed to be reincarnations of gods. Abraham and Moses were reincarnations of God also in a way. That may be why the voice of God in this movie sounds similar to Abraham's own voice. Like Moses Abraham talked to God in a direct way.In a movie like this it's necessary to try to read between the lines about what really happened since it's based on the bible which has gone through many translations and undoubtedly contains errors about specific details.It's difficult to even put the events in Abe's life into perspective compared to modern society. He didn't have any kids so his wife tells him to have a child with the slave girl that came with them from Egypt. This was an apparent mistake on Abe's part since God did eventually give him and Sarah a child. This serves as some type of lesson I think in that even though a mistake was made things worked out ok. According to the closing remarks in the movie both of Abe's sons were present when he was buried.Abraham undoubtedly loved Sarah intensely since they stayed together for their entire lives even though they didn't have any children which was probably a major stigma back then.Movies like this are a good review of the bible in case you don't want to go back and read the bible again as I didn't but you want to review the information. According to some other reviewers this movie stays pretty close to the scriptures. God must have known people would make a movie about Abraham because there are quite a few important events in his life which gives the movie producers a lot of info to work with. Edgar Cayce's Atlantis and Lemuria: The Lost Civilizations in the Light of Modern Discoveries Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known Edgar Cayce's Story of the Old Testament From the Birth of Souls to the Death of Moses The Atlantis Dialogue: Plato's Original Story of the Lost City, Continent, Empire, Civilization

There are obvious difficulties when re-telling such a remarkable life, how do you fit it all in to a 3-hour visualization, what do you include, what do you leave out, it is also to be expected that film makers will take artistic liberty where the original text is silent. Then there is the problem of the viewers expectation, if it’s a Biblical re-telling we generally expect a grand sweeping epic, but the days of big movie Cecil B De-Mille Biblical epics are long gone!That all aside I have to admit this re-telling was not unrecognisable from the Biblical narrative of Genesis. Richard Harris gives a pretty good rendering of a very human Abraham, an Abraham with doubts, fears and concerns. Barbara Hershey as Sarah also has a feel of authenticity. Hagar, is very believable and it’s not difficult to feel her pain. Unfortunately some of the background, scenery and extras make this feel like a TV movie – which is exactly what it is. This can be overlooked but where I felt this was let down was in the obvious ‘epic’ Biblical moments, God telling Abraham to journey to a land unknown, Abraham’s anxiety sending Hagar and Ishmael away and a very ‘flat’ final scene when Abraham is about to lose the son of promise. Had there been more pathos in these scenes it would have lifted this from a 3 to a 4 star. Overall, though not too shabby, given it is a TV movie.Jeremiah, Joseph, Moses and Daniel from the same series make for better viewing.

One of the better productions of the Bible based TV movies. The extraordinary talents of the actors really gave life to this ancient tale.Well worth the time to endulge in the era, background, costumes and a certain amount of artistic licence.Good work.

I have chosen this rating beause this film was involving. One could put yourself into this film and see which character you would be in it. Richard Harris' acting was superb, as always, and the, though all not widely known, were very good actors.I liked everything about the movie, it was true to the bible, ok it wandered a little, but all in all true to Abraham's calling and his answer to the Lord. Very worthwhile watching, will recommend this to friends but don't know if many would buy it. You really have to be interested in these kind of films to purchase them. It opened up the story of Abraham to me, in film you visualise more (well I do) and it opens up your understanding. I understand more by seeing than by reading. You see the whole picture in film. A great DVD.

Great film to see telly you the story of gods people

Brilliant film.