Walking the Bible, First Chapter 1/6

Episode One
GO FORTH: From Creation to Abraham

The holy city of Jerusalem. Best selling author Bruce Feiler begins his epic, ten thousand mile odyssey to explore the greatest stories ever told, in the settings where they actually occurred. It's a daunting prospect in this strife-torn region of the world, where archaeological evidence is hard to find. He teams up with experienced archaeologist and co-adventurer Avner Goren.

By foot, jeep, rowboat, and train, Feiler and Goren set out to experience the Bible in its own world. Their quest takes them first to the birthplace of civilization, Mesopotamia, now part of Turkey. Here, on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, the Bible's storytellers set the Creation, and the Garden of Eden. Bruce and Avner climb Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's ark, travel to the ancient town where some believe Abraham was born....and then to the ancient ruins of Harran, where the Bible says God tells Abraham to "go forth" to the Promised Land. Following Abraham's path back to Jerusalem, they stop to explore the sulfurous land by the Dead Sea, with its salt pillars called "Lot's wife." Could this be dramatic evidence of Sodom and Gomorrah? The episode culminates at Jerusalem's sacred Temple Mount, the very spot where it's believed Abraham brought his son Isaac, and prepared to follow God's ultimate test of faith.

Dramatic scripture readings interspersed throughout all three programs bring us closer to these Biblical settings. As Bruce Feiler "walks the Bible," he discovers that his journey is turning into a very different kind of pilgrimage. At the end of the first episode, he wonders, perhaps the true importance of his travels may not be where the Bible took place. Instead, it's the unchartered spiritual landscape that now beckons as strongly as his geographic adventure.

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• biblical flood
• ancient mesopotamia
• abraham's journey

[MistyMarie1970]

this was a great series, how do i find the second part

[Greyshark09]

@MistyMarie1970

shall be uploaded in the coming weeks.

[SchumockC]

Nein!

[earlysda]

"Three faiths sharing one god"? "For more than a million years?"

Maybe this is the secularist mindset, but it is far removed from real faith in the Bible.

[BeBigThinkBig]

what a joke. who is this guy??

[annastesia67]

thats the problem people dont read the word. sorry but the jewish temple was there way before the dome of the rock and this secular dummy thinks that abraham sacrificed his son ishmael when its actually isaac and it was a test of faith he never did it plus thats not the place of the event. God was and is and will be.

[Mectrixctic]

@just1Becky

Welcome to reality.

[funnysqurl]

bruce turns me on

[just1Becky]

Disappointing. This video is very secular. Even states that humans have been around for millions of years. Creation is made to sound like just a "story" or a "legend" they told each other.

[vbirdieb]

I like the idea of this video series, but I have a problem with words, that suggest a less real God and more of a man generated god. Of course not just any god, but THE GOD of all gods. I mean calling it a story, inspired by the land (not God). Or the image of the sun, when he says the worship of one god (at 2:15-17). These are just two examples, that this isn't going to be correct, just secular, to make it easier to dismiss the Bible as THE word of GOD. Maybe, that's why you like it.

[MistyMarie1970]

thanks, will look forward to watching it.