Review by Mujanama Barnabas -- Who Told You That You Wer...

[Mujanama Barnabas]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Who Told You That You Were Naked?" by William Combs.]

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3 out of 4 stars

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Who told you that you were naked? By William E. Combs is an appropriately titled non-fiction book detailing how sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin as a result of Adam’s transgression of God’s command in the garden of Eden. In this book, William E. Combs as on first page of chapter two elaborated how the crafty serpent tirelessly waited for just such a moment: the woman was alone in the middle of the garden, and he called to her as she passed near the tree of the knowledge of good and evil misleading her to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which she did under persistent influence from the serpent and did not only stop at being misled by the serpent but went further to mislead her husband too into doing the same, an act that was against God’s command marking the beginning of the sin.

The author explained clearly the meaning of death in context of Adam’s disobedience to God’s command as spiritual death differentiating it from physical death a context that would be interpreted differently in other related biblical literature thus it is made clear in Who told you that you were naked? By William E. Combs eliminating all rooms of confusion.

One thing that I did not like on this book is its introduction that was boring and not impressing to read further due to the fact that it was full of jargon making it very hard to interpret and nearly impossible to understand. However, on further reading the rest of chapters were found impressing to read and clearly understood with a good flow of content, chapter from chapter clearly explained with various biblical verses indicated where original information was obtained. Interesting were also the study questions for discussion put at the end of every chapter to help readers evaluate how best they grasped the concepts.

This book seemed to have been professionally proof read and edited as no errors noticed except a few undefined abbreviations used in chapter ten such as “OT” for old testament and “NT” for new testament on pages 188 and 189 respectively which may not be as familiar and easier to understand by the people who are strangers to the religious literature as we may think.

Generally, I found the book Who told you that you were naked? a such interesting and adventurous book and I therefore rate it 3 out of 4 stars because of its meaningful and excellent flow of content and its correlation of the tittle to the actual content that impressed me to keep following up to the end. I cannot rate this book 4 out of 4 stars because of its boring and complex introduction that could not easily be understood and not 2 out of 4 stars or less because of its error free content thus a good standard.

I recommend this book to all Christians as well as any other person that would wish to understand the origin of sin and its consequences and relationship between our God and our faith as the most of the questions that one would raise regarding these concepts are well explained.

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Good review!

[Ayosinmi]

Excellent review. I'm not sure I will like to read this book, I rather enjoy your review though. Thanks for being honest in your review.
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