MMahmud said

Lawyerskeptic said
The series is out on DVD now, and I am watching it. As Spiker said, it is a fifth gospel because sometimes it bears little relation to the story in the New Testament.  Because I’m interested in apologetics, I found two things particularly interesting.

First, Jesus appeared to all the disciples except Thomas. When Thomas walked in and did not believe the other disciples when they told him, one of disciples commented that they had all seen him at the same time. This is the standard apologetic rebuttal to the hallucination theory of Jesus’ appearances, which neither Thomas nor anyone else had yet suggested.

Second, the ascension shows Jesus walking up a hill with all sorts of glorious clouds and Angels in the background. Once again, the ascension is one of those things in the Bible that is just too silly looking to portray. Showing Jesus rising up into a cloud would look stupid people who have seen rockets do the same thing. We now have two Roma Downey versions of the ascension. The first one looks rather like Scotty beaming Jesus up to the enterprise. The second is a far more bombastic event, but neither of them look anything like what described in Acts.

 I am not into binge watching,  and look at the rest of it later.

Speak for yourself. I would be absolutely amazed to watch that happen. Our rockets actually can’t go far considering the size of the universe.

I would be pretty amazed to see anyone ascend like a rocket in real life. I meant that it looks silly in a film. Acts says:

When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’

If any filmmaker tried to accurately depict this in film, the audience would immediately wonder what happened after he went into the cloud. As Carl Sagan pointed out, if Jesus ascended at the speed of light, then he is not yet left our galaxy.