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Review by Ghada TG -- Who Told You That You Were Naked?
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3 out of 4 stars
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Who Told you that you were Naked, ‘A Refreshing Reexamination of the Garden of Eden’. Is A Christian nonfiction analytical and informative read. Written by “William E. combs». This book tackles the silver lining behind the essence of creation and the inclinations behind following prophesies. while brilliantly serving the call for pure faith and selfless giving.
Surprisingly it also urges us to see beyond our own insecurities and others somewhat sinful deeds so that we can get across our earthly bodies and transcend with our souls to our rightful Devine dimension of love and humility. This reading would in many ways serve the saying “ ask not what God can do for you but what you can do for God”, William combs encourages us to see the truth, accept it and pass it forward, as our spiritual weapon against all darkness and ever evolving forms of evil that resides within us.
William combs goes through several quotes and interpretations of the Bible from both the New and Old Testament, facilitating the deeper understanding of biblical purpose, and providing simpler ways of perception and acceptance through which one can find peaceful manners of embracing religion and faith without having to go through the emotional trauma and internal struggle between right and wrong, sin and faith. By providing a way to get passed the darkness within us and transcend to meet the light that is rightfully ours. The imagery of the scenes between Adam, Eve and God himself is very vivid and enchanting in a way that it brings alive the origin of faith as well as it dusts off the ancient web cobs off the gospel and renders it anew and applicable to present humanitarian practices.
Through the chapters of the book, William combs focuses on the notion of nakedness and its altering signification through time and space, and its relativity to human nature before and after the consumption of the holy fruit that destroys all barriers and distinction between good and evil. Thus the concept of righteousness begins to be questioned as well as the meaning of nakedness through the realm of the soul and that of the body. Which is very intriguing and certainly a very self conscious read to all believers and nonbelievers alike.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. Simply due to the confusion caused by the not so thoroughly studied organization of explanatory notes and the puzzling repetition of important remarks that could be better placed at the beginning of the chapters as an opening or at the end as a conclusion, rather than tossed around in the middle right after the citation of it which sounds like pointless redundancies. Other than that the book offers a great insight that broadens ones faith and belief system as well as it is very informative for scholars and those looking for a fresh approach to the beginning of right and evil.
The reason I rated this book 3 out of 4, is the somehow numbing repetitions that were probably meant to emphasize important topics and serve the calling for faith, which is understandable, yet as a prose, the redundancies turned vain and weighing, as well as the dysfunctional ordering of definitions and notes that would be better stationed at the bottom of every page where they would have made more sense and would have been rather helpful as well as easy to access. Instead of having them at the end of the book, where they no longer serve the intended purpose. Still I would highly recommend this book to curious readers and passionate believers who love to dig deep into their faith and delve into the essence of religion and themselves alike.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Who Told you that you were Naked, ‘A Refreshing Reexamination of the Garden of Eden’. Is A Christian nonfiction analytical and informative read. Written by “William E. combs». This book tackles the silver lining behind the essence of creation and the inclinations behind following prophesies. while brilliantly serving the call for pure faith and selfless giving.
Surprisingly it also urges us to see beyond our own insecurities and others somewhat sinful deeds so that we can get across our earthly bodies and transcend with our souls to our rightful Devine dimension of love and humility. This reading would in many ways serve the saying “ ask not what God can do for you but what you can do for God”, William combs encourages us to see the truth, accept it and pass it forward, as our spiritual weapon against all darkness and ever evolving forms of evil that resides within us.
William combs goes through several quotes and interpretations of the Bible from both the New and Old Testament, facilitating the deeper understanding of biblical purpose, and providing simpler ways of perception and acceptance through which one can find peaceful manners of embracing religion and faith without having to go through the emotional trauma and internal struggle between right and wrong, sin and faith. By providing a way to get passed the darkness within us and transcend to meet the light that is rightfully ours. The imagery of the scenes between Adam, Eve and God himself is very vivid and enchanting in a way that it brings alive the origin of faith as well as it dusts off the ancient web cobs off the gospel and renders it anew and applicable to present humanitarian practices.
Through the chapters of the book, William combs focuses on the notion of nakedness and its altering signification through time and space, and its relativity to human nature before and after the consumption of the holy fruit that destroys all barriers and distinction between good and evil. Thus the concept of righteousness begins to be questioned as well as the meaning of nakedness through the realm of the soul and that of the body. Which is very intriguing and certainly a very self conscious read to all believers and nonbelievers alike.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. Simply due to the confusion caused by the not so thoroughly studied organization of explanatory notes and the puzzling repetition of important remarks that could be better placed at the beginning of the chapters as an opening or at the end as a conclusion, rather than tossed around in the middle right after the citation of it which sounds like pointless redundancies. Other than that the book offers a great insight that broadens ones faith and belief system as well as it is very informative for scholars and those looking for a fresh approach to the beginning of right and evil.
The reason I rated this book 3 out of 4, is the somehow numbing repetitions that were probably meant to emphasize important topics and serve the calling for faith, which is understandable, yet as a prose, the redundancies turned vain and weighing, as well as the dysfunctional ordering of definitions and notes that would be better stationed at the bottom of every page where they would have made more sense and would have been rather helpful as well as easy to access. Instead of having them at the end of the book, where they no longer serve the intended purpose. Still I would highly recommend this book to curious readers and passionate believers who love to dig deep into their faith and delve into the essence of religion and themselves alike.
BY TG
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