Is Hollywood’s Sudden Love of Bible Stories an Evil Deception in Disguise?

Many Christians have been heralding the attention that Hollywood has given to movies since the success of The Passion of the Christ. Bible movies have been around since the dawn of film, but the Passion marked a revival in big-budget, wide release Bible stories. Are they spreading the Word or selling false doctrine?

I’ve read Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospels numerous times. I don’t recall Moses teaching the Israelites the art of war. I don’t think the Bible mentions anything about Noah trying to murder his grandchildren. I’m pretty sure Yeshua wasn’t a blue-eyed Scottish man (or a Swiss-Irish Catholic, or a Portuguese GQ model). There are many reasons that filmmakers are giving as to why they’re changing the stories and distorting the perceptions, but it’s starting to become more apparent that their motives aren’t just fiscal or for the sake of artistic license. They’re intentionally deceiving the world by spinning stories that go against the truth of the Bible.

Let’s take a look at one recent example and why it’s important.

Butchering of the Great Flood

Believing that evangelical concerns about Noah were almost surely overblown, I went to see the movie. I was wrong. The concerns are not overblown. My response is not outrage, however, but deep concern – and part of my concern is that so many evangelicals are, in my view, focusing on the wrong issues.Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.

We sat through a painful watching of Noah. We’ll put aside the embarrassingly low quality of the film itself which is an utter embarrassment for Darren Aronofsky and the talented cast. The story took too much liberty in filling in the gap during the hundred years that Noah and his sons spent building the ark. That can be expected from a big-budget film that’s trying to succeed as a blockbuster, but this film went so far as to distort the story itself.

The list of distortions is huge, from “king” Tubalcain as the antagonist to making Methuselah a magical grandfather healing a barren maiden and sending his grandson into a drug-induced hallucination to get messages from God. There are dozens of distortions like this in the movie, but they aren’t as important as the anti-Biblical messages the movie portrays, including:

• Samyaza the Protecting Watcher – This fallen angel from the book of Enoch gathered other angels to rape human women and corrupt the seed of men. He did not protect Noah. He did not help to build the ark. He was not given a reprieve to return to his angelic state. This is an extremely evil creature who has been banished from Heaven forever, yet the movie makes him and his fellow “Watchers” out to be the good guys.


• Noah the Judge, Jury, and Executioner – It would seem that Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel may have taken the hallucinogenic drugs that Methuselah gave to Noah while writing this movie because they take a man that the Bible calls “a preacher of righteousness” and who became the seed for us all today and turned him into a sociopath. After seeing a vision of himself being as evil as every other man on the planet, he comes to the conclusion that God wants all of mankind wiped off the planet. He instructs his family to systematically kill each other and wants to kill his own granddaughter twins. This vision of Noah as a broken, psychotic, and ungodly man is blatantly misleading.


• God the Indifferent – The Bible tells us that the flood is to start anew, to destroy the evil that fills men’s hearts and the corruption that was happening on the earth at the time with the tainting of the human seed by the fallen ones. He laid out a plan, helped Noah fulfill it, and even closed the door to the ark when everyone was inside. This small detail from Genesis 7:15-16 has profound meaning (a topic we’ll be discussing in the future) as it pertains to God’s plan to replenish the earth after the flood but was completely dismissed in this movie. Moreover, God only communicates in the movie through obscure visions while the Bible tells of God giving Noah detailed instructions every step of the way. Even at the end, when Noah is about to kill his grandchildren, he looks up to see if God is going to intervene. When nothing happens, it’s through his own judgment that he decides to spare the babies, giving the message that God would have allowed it all to happen at Noah’s discretion. This is not the God of the Bible but a false god created for the movie to cast a very poor message to those who would see it.

This movie was an opportunity to tell the tremendous story of the flood, one that would give a filmmaker just enough latitude to stay true to reality while adding in fictional trials and tribulations during the building of the ark. Instead, they deliver a series of blasphemous messages that, when seen by the multitudes of people who did not know the full story from the Bible, would come away further from a desire to learn the Word than before they saw the movie.

That was probably the point.

Decoding the Deception

Watching Noah was a struggle, but it cannot end there. The question posed by this article is whether or not Hollywood is participating in evil deceptions to mislead Christians and to prevent non-believers from exploring the Word of God fully. After watching one movie, there is enough evidence to push further.

A detailed article called Exodus: Gods And Kings – Hollywood Heresy Strikes Again leads me to believe that we might be looking at the even worse movies that distort scripture. It’s not simply about putting together a movie that has the opportunity to make more money. If there’s one misconception held by many who believe Hollywood is promoting a non-Biblical worldview, it’s that they’re doing it for the money. That’s simply not true based upon what we’ve seen so far. It’s much darker than greed.

This week, we will watch Exodus and report back with further details. Judging by the trailer and the writeup I just read, it’s certain that we will see even worse corruption of the Word being depicted in this movie. We will explore other popular movies as well, leading up to Last Days in the Desert, a movie that inserts a new chapter into the story of Yeshua’s 40 days of fasting and the attempt by Satan to tempt Him.

Hollywood has so much sway over the mindsets and worldviews of people around the world, particularly in America. It’s deeper than most are willing to accept. Are the mistakes of recent Biblical films done intentionally to deceive? That’s what we’re going to explore.

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