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One of (few) good* parts of the 2013 mini-series "The Bible" is the Daniel section.

Here's a clip of it posted to YouTube by a fan for preview purposes. Daniel is seen with Nebuchadnezzar. We see the golden statue and the three friends refusing to bow down to it, etc. etc.

Titled "Daniel experiences a miracle" by the YT poster, it should have been titled something like "Fiery Furnace."  It's the last part of the OT section in The Bible (movie).

YouTube will only allow you to show it ON YouTube so I can't embed it here in this post. Why? Because it has an age restriction probably due to fire safety and the depiction of people standing in a fire



*"GOOD" as in, one of the few Old Testament parts of that mini-series I would recommend, especially for children. The NT parts are awesome, and were turned into a full-length movie known as "Son of God," ...but the OT parts are rather violent and uneven. The Daniel episode is really good.

The preview clip cuts off the beginning and end of the story, btw.

One of the challenges of SHOWING any recreation of the Fiery Furnace story is that, at its core, this is a story with a visual of people being burned alive --which should be a bit disturbing to all of us, let alone children.  But the MOVIE* handles it with appropriate fear, miraculousness, and special effects, provided your children are not too young.

I particularly liked how the movie depicts the people's reaction to the miracle as we hear Daniel embrace the three friends and say "God is with us!"  --which is the point of miracles, ...to make a statement about God.   Would that the rest of the movie's OT sections were handled with such care and production quality (I really don't like the Moses-Exodus section of this movie, for example).   

Last edited by Neil MacQueen
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