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Explain why the teacher compares the Old Testament to a film.
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A film/movie has a plot that has a starting point with a climax. Similarly, OT is a narrative that keeps moving like a movie with a beginning and a climax. All the books in the OT are closely interconnected with each other narrating one plot (story) after other until it reaches the point where Israel is grown up as a nation and is going through various struggles such as invation and exilation.
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The Old Testament is telling a story and is moving to a climactic finish link a great film or movie. The Old Testament is part of the script moving the story forward and providing colorful detail. The exciting climax occurs in the New Tes
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The time books moves the story forward and the color books adds details to the story, the eleven time books are spliced together like a movie reel, one book picks up the story where the previous book stopped.
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The Old Testament is like a movie because God does not look like a movie director, but he makes a story by appearing several characters like movie stars.
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Because the time narratives flow from one book to the other telling a story like a movie.
