| For the team at The Kids Bible Company LLC, | | | | abject lesson of obedience which God was trying |
| producers of 'The Animated Kid's Bible' Collectable | | | | to teach His created: Adam and Eve. God had set |
| DVD Series, maintaining Biblical integrity was of | | | | a clear boundary: his created were able to eat |
| utmost priority, but so too was the capacity to | | | | from any other tree in Paradise - but they were |
| thoroughly engage & 'edu-tain' young audiences. | | | | forbidden to eat from only one tree out of the |
| With this in mind, a panel of writers was | | | | many. The fruit of the tree of knowledge of |
| commissioned to draw biblical truths from the | | | | good and evil. |
| greatest & most controversial book ever written, | | | | Decades of movies, videos, & children's Bible |
| the Bible. Then bring it to the screen with | | | | storybooks have indelibly impressed upon us the |
| portraying these historical yet ordinary people | | | | common apple as the bane of the curse of sin, |
| who lived extraordinary lives. | | | | and yet without scriptural accuracy: a critical point |
| In the premier episode, 'Creation', presented in | | | | the writers were obviously keen to share with |
| super-vivid 3D-CGI (computer generated images) | | | | their potentially vast viewing audience. |
| Eve eats from the tree of knowledge of good & | | | | So keen in fact, that the premise is reasoned out |
| evil, and much to our initial surprise she eats a yet | | | | in the 'Special Features' segment presented by a |
| unidentified fruit that drips with persuasiveness. | | | | quirky penguin called Pip! In addition to the main |
| Are we surprised? You bet! Since the 'forbidden | | | | story within each episode of "The Animated Kids |
| fruit' has traditionally been presented to us - as | | | | Bible", this segment holds a real treasure chest |
| being an apple. And such is the strong reaction the | | | | that is embedded with precious facts, meticulously |
| images evoke; it's enough to send you reaching | | | | researched to enrich the viewers' knowledge and |
| for your Bible to substantiate! | | | | appreciation of biblical characters and their unique |
| It is possible that the 'traditional apple view' | | | | history. |
| stemmed from a pun of the Latin word 'malus,' | | | | Each character finds their place on the family |
| which loosely, sounds like 'evil' and 'apple.' But, as | | | | tree, and as the genealogy grows, so too does |
| we check Genesis 3:6 it says: "So when the | | | | our interest in future episodes. A 'Fact File' is |
| woman saw that the tree was good for food, | | | | loaded with information on maps - historical and |
| that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree | | | | modern day - timelines of the biblical families are |
| desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit | | | | tendered. Additionally, very interesting and |
| and ate." | | | | relevant questions that only a child would think of |
| Most of us probably know the story of Adam & | | | | are promptly answered. |
| Eve: the woman was deceived, & the eating of | | | | Animation story-boards are offered also for those |
| the fruit brought the swift sentence of death to | | | | young viewers who are keen to learn more about |
| mankind. The serpent was cursed to disgrace and | | | | the animation process. An original animated music |
| destruction; the woman was doomed to sorrow | | | | video is also part of the line-up to enthrall the |
| in child-bearing and subservience to her husband; | | | | young viewers and to get them smiling. And to |
| and the man was predestined to distress, | | | | complete the picture, orientation is provided by |
| disappointment, and a life of hard labor. | | | | way of preview trailers for up and coming |
| OK. So what's the point, you ask? The whole | | | | episodes too, added to satisfy the viewers' |
| point of the Bible story in Genesis was not so | | | | curiosity. |
| much the type of fruit that Eve ate, but the | | | | |