Flawed.

While the overall message of the video was very positive, I felt that there was too much weight put on good works. Overall, it gives the impression that there are routes to heaven besides accepting Christ as your personal savior.

Also, it was tricky to explain to my three-year-old daughter why the rabbit got crucified and what it meant when Luke poured a forty for his dead homey.

Better than first thought

OK, so I already posted a review on this video, but after watching it several more times with my son (who keeps insisting we watch the story about Jesus), I realized I made a hasty post and here I am trying to make up for it. This movie really does a great job about telling the story of the resurrection to my almost-3-year-old. My first concern was that it did not accurately explain how to "get to heaven." And since that is such a major part of our faith, I thought that was a major disapointment in the video.

HOWEVER, after watching it repeatedly, I have to say that it's not really that far off, and I can make any clarifications myself when my son and I discuss things. It's so hard for me to find good Bible story videos appropriate for this age group, I'm glad to have one that my son really enjoys and that covers the subject as close as this one does. But I will still be careful to have the discussions with my son, and not just let the video do the teaching.

Good BUT One major problem....

We have several videos in this series, and my nearly-3-year-old son absolutely loves watching them. They hold his interest well, they're just the right length, and they tell the Bible stories in a way that he can understand. They've really helped him learn the stories, and he even likes to act out the stories on his own and retell them. (We also have the videos about David and Goliath, Jonah, Daniel, Moses, Noah.)

Overall, I've found these videos to be pretty accurate, mainly just adjusting things to make them suitable for the very young. BUT There is a major flaw in this one about Easter--The disciples ask Jesus about how to get to heaven, and Jesus's reply is about doing good and loving others, not about trusting in Him and His sacrifice and that He is the only way to God. The Christian faith is all about being saved by God's grace, not by our own good works. Of course we are supposed to do good and love others, but that's not how we get to heaven. I know there is a way to explain this to a 3-year-old without just glossing over it that way.

I would have highly recommended this video except that one thing that sounds so little is really a big problem for us as Bible-believing Christians. Get any of the others in this series, but watch out for this one.