Most faith-based films, whether Christian or otherwise, by their own admission, operate on a writing technique called “the method of the premise.”
According to that concept, a writer starts with a premise – a truth message that he must convey.
The result is most often formulaic, predictable, two-dimensional and boring, with characters serving the sole purpose of proving the premise true.
Is it any wonder that they fail to ring true when real life – and the Biblical narrative itself – is so much messier?