moreover....the premise is that the world has basically been incinerated, and (as Eli says) many people say that whatever happened was caused by the Book. There is a real post-armageddon feel to this. The viewer is not sure just what happened, except that the Bible was at the center of it all - which, by the way, is very good theology.
Now...accept the preceding carnage at face value, and then you have to wonder: would the survivors be illiterate? yes. would they use naughty words? yes, i think they would. would they be violent? you betcha.
if they had NOT had the naughty words and the violence, then they could not have offered the opening premise.
so I think this movie just states the truth of the depravity of man.
But the larger and much more interesting Truth comes out, loud and clear: A sovereign God will preserve his Word, supernaturally.
That is an awesome (and true) message.
Now...accept the preceding carnage at face value, and then you have to wonder: would the survivors be illiterate? yes. would they use naughty words? yes, i think they would. would they be violent? you betcha.
if they had NOT had the naughty words and the violence, then they could not have offered the opening premise.
so I think this movie just states the truth of the depravity of man.
But the larger and much more interesting Truth comes out, loud and clear: A sovereign God will preserve his Word, supernaturally.
That is an awesome (and true) message.
I agree with you 100% about this movie. My wife, was turned off by the violence and the language, but I simply told her "Do you really think that a world in which there is one remaining Bible, and one remaining believer, that was so utterly destroyed by war/famine/pestilence would be like Sunday School?" I don't know exactly where in theology a story like this could fit (tribulation maybe?) but even if it's a million Bibles and a million Believers, as some point the real world will make this movie look tame.