yvonne-m As i watched this program it brought back flooding memories of my journey that i experienced in early December 2004. Like others before me, i had a near death experience where i actually died, i had no idea that i had died. I was born as a Mormon but decided at the age of 18 to look at other religions to see what similarities they had with my faith as i was no longer a Mormon (Christian) at the age of 12. The day i died, i had an afternoon nap but when i woke, it was a week later, i do not remember what happened on this world from the time i went for my nap to when i woke up in an ICU in a hospital in Australia but what i do remember is not of this world. I woke not in this world but with lying on my bed feeling heavy with my body feeling heavy and then i saw two men dressed in white on either side of my bed telling me that it was time to go, i remember telling them that i could not move and i could not get up and one of them touched my hand and told me it was ok to go so i grabbed his hand and soon i was walking towards a light where it was tranquil but on earth, it had now turned to darkness as it was now night and that there were two paramedics who were trying to save my life but were failing and others in the room who were just standing around, i was told after i woke up from my induced coma that they were trying to save me twice in my bedroom and then a advanced paramedic came to try and help me and if the third time failed, i would be sent to a major city hospital and have a tube cut into my throat even though i was put in a reduced coma but i knew nothing of this as i was not on earth. What i remember is at the light, i saw my deceased father in law who had died from multiple cancers at once only 10 1/2 months ago and i also saw all my grandparents on both sides and ancestors that had been long gone before me and other people who were greeting me. At seeing these family members and others, my deceased father in law who was like a true father, there stood beside him was Jesus with the light of God behind them both and my deceased father in law told me that my time was not for here but on earth as i had other things to do, i had to protect my kids and endure hardships for a number of years, 13 years and my father showed me everything of the past, the present and what was to come so i was prepared and everything that was shown to me has come to pass even up to this day and i know that 13 years of hardship will end where the next chapter of my life and of those around me will change for the better. I saw all cultures and races in heaven but they were as one of the same in heaven as long as we asked for forgiveness of our sins and go by the gospels and rulings of our Lord God and Jesus and be at peace as one and with others on Earth. This experience humbled me even more than i was before as i know our Lord God and Jesus has protected me all of my life where i should have died but have not. So thank you for this program as it shows how everyone sees God and the humility of life. I believe in reincarnation and the after life as i have seen with my near death experiences. I have seen deceased family members and other unexplained things even though some terrifying but have learnt to understand and learn from everything i have been given. So Thank you for this program looking into other religions and cultures and seeing how when you look at the World, we all are the same. .

petervanreijn All kind of statements are made by all kinds of people (experts?). All MF says is that he finds things amazing, But he never asks the logical question: how do you know all this? Maybe there's proof or at least a reasonable amount of indications. But they are never shown. It's like reading a gossip magazine. You read it because you've got nothing better to do, but you don't remember a single item. A total waste of time.

dcastle-27295 First off I do not review many shows because usually people understand and get the gist from other review, synopsis, and summaries. Unfortunately it appears that people are getting a lot of misconceptions about this show. This is an amazing in depth look at major aspects that we think about today from all religions around the world including some that do not exist anymore, but that have some of it's rituals and teachings still around. This is also a hands on experience with Morgan Freeman as he travels everywhere there is or has been a major or sometimes minor religion that impacts the way we think of these certain issues today. The title of an episode pretty much sums up what they will be going in depth to find out about. I was skeptical before watching this for the first time thinking they were just going to tell the story of the Judaeo- Christian God story and nothing more, but I was so pleasantly surprised when watching this. Every time when talking with a new religion they don't just go off the book in which it is taught by but by some of the highest elders and priests associated with that religion and get the real information of what they believe in the topic being covered. I honestly cannot think of a better way this could have been done and if you watch this with an open mind you will be blown away at how well it is done. I am sure we all know parts some religions and what they believe but do you know what they truly believe about the afterlife, creation, why evil exists, what they think about miracles, and much more? From Christian, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, and many many more we learn what their true beliefs on each topic is from a non-biased investigator and the ones that devote their life to the teachings. If you are interested in true factual understanding from religious and scientific aspects of the biggest topics that plague our minds since people began to think about what is out there then I would highly suggest checking this documentary series out whenever you can.

filmbridges Watched Episode 1 on 4/3/16 of "The Story of God" with Morgan Freeman. Didn't know what to expect except that I thought it would cover beliefs about the divine from earliest times. This first episode had nothing to do with God. It was about humans and their beliefs about the afterlife which, although most people who believe in an afterlife also believe in at least one divinity, has no necessary connection to gods or belief in a god. Regarding afterlife itself, the relatively minute numbers of accounts of people who have technically died and came back to life, reporting certain experiences, is no proof at all of the following claims made by guests: 1. that everyone who has died or who will die had or will have this apparent sort of experience of afterlife wherein people receive them into the Heaven-like "place" 2. that the experiences are of people and a "place" that are real beyond human life in this world and are not simply subjective experiences that humans have, and 3. that belief in the afterlife began in ancient Egypt. This claim is certainly false. We have discovered many graves tens of thousands of years old that contain artifacts useful to the deceased in the next life.So, for this episode at least, the title was totally misleading. Plus, it contained enough mistakes and was shallow enough that I'm totally uninspired to watch any more of it.