The wonder-full New Testament video series on lds.org

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A truly inspiring set of short dramatised video episodes dramatising some of the major incidents of the Gospels, currently continuing into the Acts of the Apostles, is incrementally being published on the official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/categories/bible-videos-chronologically?lang=eng

These are so good, I could suppose that viewing them might be one of the best ways for a somebody to become a Christian; because the videos seem to provide not just a correct understanding of the essence, but the proper way to think about it.

At times I have felt my spirit transported back in time to experience the strange and unique impact of Jesus in a very personal way - this has not happened for me with any other TV or movie depiction of the Gospels - indeed, I generally dislike such things.

The difference with these LDS segments seems to be the seriousness and intensity with which they have been created - resulting in an extraordinary detail and focus; such that a small segment of a few minutes duration functions as a micro-world within-which (and from-which) events unfold in a deliberate and expansive manner. And this itself must surely have been how time with Jesus was actually experienced.

But perhaps the greatest achievement is that the concentration and focus is achieved in a non-theoretical manner - by story, personality, social actions and responses, atmosphere, setting, light... As an intellectual with a tendency to over-analyse and abstract - this is exactly what I need.

And it greatly increases the potential scope and impact of this video Bible series - far beyond the scope and impact of any analysis or abstraction.

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