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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9781892112385
ISBN number: 1892112388
Label: No Greater Joy Ministries
Manufacturer: No Greater Joy Ministries
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 307
Printing Date: June 01, 2006
Publishing house: No Greater Joy Ministries
Sale Popularity Level: 10718
Studio: No Greater Joy Ministries
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A huge sucess in its original grey and white format, Good and Evil has been reprinted larger and exquisitely colorized. Good and Evil is God’s redemption plan told chronologically from Genesis to Revelation. The 324-page book written by Michael Pearl and illustrated by Danny Bulanadi, former of Marvel Comics (Incredible Hulk), resembles an oversized comic book. Good and Evil begins where God began, in the book of Genesis, with the Creator, the fall of man, the law, blood sacrifice, and the prophecies of the coming Redeemer, thus preparing the people to fully understand the gospel of Christ. Good and Evil captivates those who would not normally pick up a Bible. In addition to the colour art, each page footnotes Scriptural passages for further Bible study. Young and old, teens, prisoners, military personnel, and Christian workers have testified to the incredible impact Good and Evil has made on their understanding of the Bible.
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My kids really looked forward to read aloud time when using this book. There were some parts that I left out while I read to them, but overall it was decent.
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Michael Pearl's book Good and Evil was well written, and very well illustrated. It is not the Bible in comic book form, as some suggest. Instead, it is a comic book that depicts only carefully chosen Bible concepts and stories in order to demonstrate man's need for a Saviour! From start to finish, from Genesis to the Revelation, the reader will be drawn to Christ! Read this book! Then go get a King James Bible to fill in the gaps. It's worth your time.
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My kids can't seem to put this book down. They try to read the Bible, but get lost in the language (as I sometimes do). This is a fantastic way to understand the Bible, even though not every single story is covered.
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This is a fantastic illustrated bible. The words, taken right out of a KJV, some liberty is taken, but overall doctrine is sound. My boys LOVED reading it (5&3), almost as much as my husband! Enjoy
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Like many things coming from 1000 Pearl Road, (the location of No Greater Joy Ministries,) there are some good things and bad things about this book.
First the good:
Michael Pearl is obviously a very zealous believer in the Lord Jesus, and wants people everywhere to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Blood and His truth. To produce an illustrated comic of this kind and size is a major effort, and to that end, the finished product is impressive to behold.
Very difficult to finish in one reading, it places a sizable amount of Biblical material in an easy to read format - making it very appealing to many who might never turn page one of a Bible.
The illustrations are very clean, dramatic, and well executed. The professional caliber artwork goes a long way towards lending a large amount of respectability to this work. It is not short, cheap, or simply considered. It is large, detailed, and very theologically involved. Michael Pearl designed it along the format of the "Creation to Christ" narrative, popular with the New Tribes Missions organization. (See the video "EE-Taow" for a marvelous demonstration of this method.)
Now for the bad.
1. I'm a firm believer that the Bible should not be tampered with in any way - neither adding or subtracting anything, but going no farther than to translate it faithfully into a native language. (Let God take care of supplying the interpretations.) Any time you recast the Bible into a different format, (whether a movie, song, or in this case, comic illustration,) you essentially add considerable interpretive material - thus, adding to Scripture.
A simple demonstration of this can be seen in the movie, "The Ten Commandments," with Charlton Heston. Who can read the Exodus account of Moses and the children of Israel coming through the Red Sea without recalling the dramatic cinematography of the scenes in that movie? Is very difficult, if not impossible. And yet, Cecil B. DeMille is hardly inspired of God, and his movie was produced primarily to appeal to unbelievers, so as to generate a large financial return. The movie adds so much extraneous and made-up information, its hard to see the true teachings of Scripture through it.
And that the main problem with Good and Evil, by Michael Pearl. Though he makes a big issue in his website, books, and seminars about how faithful and vastly superior the King James text is over all others, he rarely uses it in this "Bible comic," (being significantly different from a "Comic Bible," which this is not.) Is this a big deal? Well, Mike Pearl seems to think so in his other writings, but we're not sure anymore based on this book. If he believes so strongly about it, (and he most surely does,) then why is it consistently forsaken in favor of a contemporary vernacular? That doesn't make much sense to me. After all, the New King James text is basically an updated version of the traditional KJV, but I don't hear Pearl say much in favor of it.
Secondly, the amount of made-up dialogue, theological interpretation, and just plain ol' spin is *tremendous.* Again, this is a "Bible Comic," rather than a "Comic Bible," so Pearl can claim any amount of "artistic license" he desires. He obviously doesn't feel very constrained in having Jesus Christ make up any manner of non-Biblical dialogue he wants. If there is an unclear section in the Bible, Pearl steamrolls over it with his interpretation. He lays it out very clearly and fairly forcefully, in my opinion. Which is great, if he's right, but history shows *lots* of people holding tenaciously to any stripe of doctrine they prefer; only to have it rejected ultimately as incorrect, (or worse, heresy.)
Many people, (judging from the reviews left so far,) don't seem to have a problem with any of this. All anyone has to do justify both the production and style is simply point to someone getting saved via this book and that seemingly will put an end to the debate. But the problem with outcome-based religion is no different from outcome-based education: the final product is often not what was originally intended. As I see it, God has expended a overwhelming amount of time, patience, grace, and energy to produce the Bible as we have it, in a purely textual format. (If He wanted pictures, he could easily have inspired another Bezaleel (Ex 31:3) to produce them exactly as desired, and we wouldn't be having this debate.) Is it possible the God of the Universe knows something about transmitting information purely and powerfully that we don't?
Thirdly, Mike Pearl adds, interprets, and reassigns theological teachings all throughout this book. Its a "Bible Comic," as we've noted, and he is free to create any kind of book he likes - whether it has made-up dialogue, events, and interpretations in it or not. But when you create an illustrated book that looks, for all intentional purposes, ... Read More
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