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Wednesday 27 March 2024

Testament: The Story of Moses Review - A Crime

Against The Word of God
Netflix has a new three part series about the life of Moses called Testament: The Story of
Moses. It blends reenactments with commentary from scholars associated with Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. That in and of itself is very bad because we don't get a real sense of
who Moses is and what he really means as he is not the same man to each faith. But that is
just a small part of why this series is a steaming pile of donkey manure.

Let me give two reasons why this new series is worse than Cleopatra. While Cleopatra was
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 awful historical revisionism the danger here is that Netflix is messing with sacred history.

1. It's too short.

This series is hardly about the LIFE of Moses. It is basically The Ten Commandments and
then at the end it skips to his death on Mt. Nebo. It could have been either longer or a lot of
the reenactment cut altogether to make room for a fuller story. But thank goodness they
opted for neither because what Netflix did with the material they have is utterly atrocious.

2. The series deviates considerably from the Bible.

Because the producers have Jewish and Islamic scholars giving commentary stories from
the Quran and the Midrash are included. That means we learn about Moses having to give a
secret code word to Serah Bat Asher, a woman hundreds of years old who came into Egypt
with Jacob, to prove he is indeed God's chosen prophet. She hears the magic phrase and
sings praises to God and that's how the Israelites knew Moses was legit.

However, for some reason the producers decided to change much of what is in the scripture
and girlboss it up. That means ALL THE WOMEN have faith and ALL THE MEN are faithless.
Take Zipporah. In the Bible Moses saves her and her sisters from a group of men and then
opens the well and waters their flock. They then go back to their father Jethro and he hears
their story and is astonished they did not invite Moses back. So they retrieve him, he eats
dinner, Jethro gives him Zipporah to wife, and he serves him for 40 years.

In this series Moses stumbles out of the desert and Zipporah allows him to drink water. Then
he scares off three bandits. They then take him home to their father who is not very sure
about this stranger. Zipporah convinces Jethro to allow Moses to tend his sheep. A few
months later Zipporah brings Moses food in the desert and sees he has carved Egyptian
hieroglyphs into a rock. She asks what it says. He says it's our story. And then they get
married.

There is a lot of nonsense like that scattered all throughout the show. Here is some more:

According to Netflix it was Moses and not God who carved the Ten Commandments into
stone.

According to Netflix when the Israelites fought the Amalekites and Moses held his hands up
for victory he got tired but he persevered and held them up to the end of the battle. In the
Bible he gets tired, sits on a rock, and Aaron and Joshua hold up his hands.

According to Netflix it was a total surprise to Moses that he was a Hebrew or that he had a
brother and sister.

According to Netflix Moses first met Pharaoh and performed the miracle of turning his staff
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 into a snake at his son's birthday party. Pharaoh is disposed to grant a request on the honor
of his son's birthday so Moses says "Let my people go." What is this? The Godfather??

According to Netflix Moses' adoptive Egyptian mother partook of the Passover. Actually that
might be in the Midrash. Either way it's not in the Bible but it is in the show.

According to Netflix after Pharaoh and his army were drowned in the Red Sea Miriam alone
sang a dirge. In the Bible Miriam and all the women dance with tambourines and sing a song
of praise.

And it goes on and on and on.

There is way too much drama and reenactment and revisionism and not enough about what
it all means. Sure there are some platitudes from the commentators but of course there is no
hard doctrine. There is also not enough of the Life of Moses. It would have been great to see
his wars against the Ethiopians, his marriage to an Ethiopian princess, the wanderings in the
wilderness, the building of the Ark and the Tabernacle, and all the rest of the story. We don't
even learn why Moses died outside the promised land. Of course seeing what Netflix did with
the little they used I'm glad they did not flub it up even more.

The whole series is a crime against the Word of God. Any believer of the scriptures cannot
take this piece of junk seriously. Stay away. Stay far away.

at March 27, 2024

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9 comments:

Anonymous 31 March 2024 at 06:31

The Qur’an and the Bible agree almost 100%
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Anonymous 31 March 2024 at 07:02

Not even close. The Quran is Bible fan fiction much like The Book of Mormon.

Anonymous 1 April 2024 at 12:46

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 That analogy is wrong on so many levels

Anonymous 1 April 2024 at 15:08

It's actually right on the nose since both are Christian heresies. See John of
Damascus on The Heresy of the Ishmaelites.

Anonymous 2 April 2024 at 02:22

Islam has Jewish roots

Anonymous 2 April 2024 at 10:12

Yeah. Mohammed blended Judaism and Arian Christianity and out popped the
Christian heresy of Islam. Again see John of Damascus on The Heresy of the
Ishmaelites. It is in the same league as Mormonism.

Anonymous 2 April 2024 at 11:29

Islam doesn’t have Christian influence. That’s been debunked.

Anonymous 2 April 2024 at 12:00

Have you read the Koran? If not then do so. If you have then you know that the
Koran calls Jesus the Messiah. That is Christian doctrine. The Christian influences is
undeniable. Islam is a hodgepodge of Judaism and Arian Christianity. That is simply
a fact. Mohammed is no prophet. He is a synthesizer of Judaism and Christianity.

Anonymous 3 April 2024 at 02:34

Ebionite and even Muslims acknowledge

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