Beautiful feature!it's not only funny, but looks realistic, like it really did happen.

Wow! Fictional pictures from a fictional book.

It's all in mind, Ursula... ;)
Thanks for commenting

wow... great interpretation of actual events...

It's the arts, impressed ;)

few decades from now fanatics will be proving biblical events as real , with help of these pics!!

Actually Jack, archaeologists have been proving the biblical events as real for years, using shovels and the Bible as their map. Ursula, you will find an amazing number of frauds fakes and lies in the attempt to prove evolution; Miller Urey, Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, etc. On the other hand, the authors of the books of the Bible who were actual witnesses to the events, and in the case of most of the New Testament writers, who's affidavit testimonies not only would stand up in any court, suffered lives of beatings, imprisonment, torture, and executions, and not a one ever denied their stories. Arrogant ignorant skeptics get rather annoying after a while!

jrstudiio, frauds such as piltdown man do not diminish the overwhelming proof for evolution. they simply show the dishonesty of the perpetrators and the effectiveness of science at eventually discrediting such false evidence. Most likely, the perpetrator was motivated by a desire for recognition, not to prove a scientific theory. Your pompous final sentence says more about you than on it does about ursula. While she was flippant, you have engaged in a personal putdown. Sarcasm rarely reflects well on the writer.

Now, to the art--I find the crucifixion powerful in its stark portrayal of a barren environment. However, I wonder if it is at all representative of the actual setting. I certainly never imagined the scene that way. Regarding the parting of the red sea, i must confess my image has always been of Charleton Heston as Moses in the Hollywood epic. I remember the red sea looking more like a river in the movie. So, this representation is a bit new but not jarring.

The garden is much more a forest than I ever imagined, and in this representation I can't get out of my mind that the trees look like broccoli rather than trees with leaves. The ark after the deluge looks photographic and is rather effective as a result.

Taken as a whole, these provoke a fresh look at deeply embedded cultural images (at least for those of us raised as Christians). I think they are effective regardless of whether one takes them as representing actual or mythic events. There is a limit, though, to this concept. Maybe a half dozen or so can be provocative. After that, it would begin to seem like a gimmick and lose power.

I wouldn't say pompous, just terribly annoyed Tom; skeptics feel like it is perfectly safe to insult Christians for believing in "fairy tales" without fear of having to stand behind their own statements, and "fictional book" is both ignorant of the historicity and reliability of the books themselves, and arrogant to think that she's smarter than thousands of years of skeptics who have continually been proven wrong. However, though my comment is true, I stand corrected and should have taken a kinder tone, but please don't think me pompous.

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