TDH #3

Ask, and it will be given to you;
seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:7
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As a lover of books, it took me more than thirty years on this planet before opening the most widely sold one of them. I say widely “sold” because I’m not convinced it’s the most widely “read,” as I once believed. I wonder how many people who consider themselves Christians have actually read the whole thing, or even more than five or ten percent for that matter. I also wonder if their view on the religion would be the same if they did.

I’m not sure what my own hesitation was in cracking open the Good Book. Perhaps intimidation, or the dogma around it, but as I’ve finally begun to read the Bible it’s anything but what I expected. Although I was as familiar with the story of Christ as anyone not living under a rock would be, reading the gospels for the first time painted another picture of Jesus that I hadn’t seen or heard. One with a little more impatience and anger than I’d expected from the son of God. More thoughts on that to come.