The Missing Block
The Analogy Apologetics book compares the loss of original grace to removing a crucial block from a tower. Use the model, then ask what it can and cannot show.
Analogy Apologetics book · Chapter 2
What changes when grace is lost?
Select the grace block. Watch what shifts, then check what remains and where the comparison has limits.
Before the Fall · no human bodily death
A gift, not a built-in part
In the book’s analogy, the grace block holds the upper layers in place. The lower blocks represent human nature and freedom. What happens if the gift is rejected?
Select the grace block or the button to begin.
Check the analogy
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Where the tower stops helping
A person is not assembled from wooden blocks. Grace is God’s freely given life and relationship, not a physical piece inside the body. After the Fall, human nature and freedom remain, though wounded. The original gift of bodily immortality is lost; human death enters our condition.
Christ offers grace and the hope of bodily resurrection. This does not mean that people no longer die in the present life.
Discuss: Which part of the tower makes the book’s point clear? What would you correct if a student said, “The whole human person disappeared when the grace block came out”?