Let me just say I am not a huge fan of religion. However I grew up baptist in a southern household so I know the religion all too well. The author basically breaks down the bible in a simple easy to grasp narrative. However, due to the book just explaining or interpreting the bible it really isn’t much of an interesting read. To me anyway, I am pretty open when it comes to a lot a things but it was just hard for me to stay interested since I have outgrown religion. It wasnt what I quite expected, but the content is true to the title. I feel that someone walking in the faith would find it very helpful, as I know the bible is often difficult to interpret as written.
The author did address that readers may have disagreements and was dead on in that perspective. There was “historical” evidence produced but I am unsure about the validity of that information for various reasons. When it comes to events in the bible it is very much up for interpretation. I do not want to rain on anyones parade but taking the bible literally instead of metaphysically causes for a lot of room to create situations, scenarios, and limitations that trap the mind in its own asylum. Not trying to be harsh at all, but I just can't read this without in the back of my mind knowing that the bible that we presently know of is missing a so much information and is a condensed dumbed down version. To some this is real life history and they believe the events happened in real time. For me however it is allegory.
Overall kudos to the author for delivering this book. It was well written and presented information as it pertains to the subject.
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