Something to that effect. I don't actually recall ever having seen the ads, were they advertising in Dragon? I stumbled across it in a book store in the early nineties. Memory may not serve correctly on this point but a large component of the game seemed to revolve around the memorization of scripture.
I took mild pleasure in seeing it sit on that shelf for month after month before going into the bargain bin.
Yes pretty much. One of the neat things was the complete game came in a HUGE box, with a lot of materials. Strangely enough I like the concept in many ways. A few aspects fell flat. (The nature of monsters being fallen creatures exiled to Edenagain, the naming like say Edenagain...) I don't mind fallen creatures/Demons, but lets make them just that--demons.
It was a neat game that had some very interesting ideas for its time, but marred a bit by the fact that it is was trying to do something that really, I'm not sure there was enough call for in the end. I've owned it a couple of times, I LOVED the artwork in it. It blew most games of the same era out of the water in its production values. (Dice, tape, character planning sheet, character sheet, counters, multiple adventures, rulebooks, with evocative art.)