So I am diving into The Good Book and enjoying it! Gomes is a brilliant writer and add a great sense of humor to his writings. On page 6 he mentions talking to a churchgoer and how she describes hearing the Old/New Testaments in church on sundays is like hearing people have a conversation in french and trying to decode that conversation with your french knowledge that you have, which is little to none. ultimately the effort is way greater than the reward, for you understand hardly anything, and you acquire a headache. I also like the bit that said that the bible is a consequence of both human and the divine. Also, I never understood that the scripture set out to help answer questions of human existence such as who am I? What is the purpose of life... what is good and what is evil? Now I think of these questions all the time, and never knew the Scriptures set out to help people answer this. I found the idea that the bible is supposed to play a public role in society, as are Christians interesting. and i think, because of this public role, thats why people start to demise religion. people not following the bible or christianity don't want anything imposed upon them, they merely want to be left alone, but because the influence of Christ is surrounding them, it creates conflict. I'll have more on Genesis later