My wife put on the Noah & David video for her daughter (my daughter, stepdaughter, whichever you prefer, we all share our DNA with the chimps anyway) last night. I was actually half-watching it for once. I can remember seeing it years ago, but it's always so different when, you know, you're out of the cult and all.
I was amazed at how much supposition and guesswork was in the Noah video. "Likely" he did this, or "probably" they did that. "Even children likely became bullies." As if there were no child bullies in the thousands of years before the Nephilim showed up. I was thinking that was the least violent of the two videos. Until I remembered it was talking about a global apocalypse and all. "God will cleanse the earth," the narrator says, as if 6.8 billion deaths is no different than cleaning food stains off a table.
I think I was actually a little unsettled watching the David video. There was a lot of killing there--no less than any comic book I've read, though less bloody of course. Some of it was cut around, of course--at least they didn't show David beheading Goliath. I was thinking, aren't there better stories to show us how to trust in God that we could share with our kids? The killing isn't any more educational than your average shoot-'em-up. As long as you say, "It's okay--it's God-approved!", then it's no big deal? It's a confusing message to send to a child.
I don't know. Is it just me? Am I seeing only the negative there? I think realizing that a lot of death and war happened in those stories kind of makes me realize I was wasting my time reading them. I was always disturbed at the level of brutality in some of the OT stories. I don't know. Guess I just...wanted to post on it and hear some thoughts.
--sd-7