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Eight Times Movies Used Bible Verses That Aren’t Actually in the Bible

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day spent its press tour needling a specific theological question: if aliens turned out to be real, would that break Christianity? The film itself doesn’t land on an answer, letting a nun character make the case that a bigger universe just means a bigger God. But it does something else worth noticing along the way — it reaches for Scripture to make its point, the same way filmmakers have for decades. Sometimes that means an actual verse. Sometimes it mea