I liked it a lot. Sure, there's only so much you can do with a straight quiz show...
Maybe, but without anything new except the subject matter, it needed to move way faster. It was like sitting through plagues. Like Abraham and Sarah waiting to conceive. Like Moses driving you to the Promised Land.
There were aspects that worked. The questions had some wit. Foxworthy was really good--funny, able to add tension without doing it the annoying NBC way. The gospel choir on set wasn't the best I've ever heard, but it added to the show. The background pieces on the contestants teetered toward sickening, but weren't too bad, definitely not as bad as
You Deserve It.
The choose-your-strongest-player bit was the one fresh idea but came out of nowhere and left. And sure, the bonus round moved and was exciting, but answering as many as you can while timed is hardly a new idea. Giving them time to study was fairly preposterous--the topic left the whole Bible in play with 10 minutes to cram. Calling it "The Final Revelation" was the only bit of tacky. Otherwise, the game was handled very nicely, just not imaginatively.