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For many months now loads of friends have badgered me to read a book.
Finally the other day after being sick of hearing my excuses a friend gave me my own copy.

I knew alot of stuff happened it this book but I couldn’t believe my eyes once I started reading. Its made up of many different stories…

In this one this guy tricks his dad into giving him inheritance insted of his brother, then when his dad finds out the guy runs away.
He goes to this farm where he works and he earn’s this other dude’s trust and falls in love with the younger daughter. Finally after like seven years or something he gets permission to marry the younger daughter but then the father tricks him and he actually married and did it with the older one.
To make matters worse the father agrees that both daughters can be his wife. So anyway the older daughter has a couple of sons and the younger daughter is jelous so she has her maid do it with this guy and the maid has a son and then the older gets jelous and and has her servent do it with her husband and the servant has sons…so this guy is doing it with four different women and ends up with 12 sons or something rediculous like that.
Anyway, I keep reading the story and then this guy runs away again with his wives and kids, escaping his father in law, and he goes and he wants to see his brother or something…

im like ‘is this for real’

i dunno…it dosn’t seem like something I should be reading, but loads of people are telling me to…
 
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Meggie:
i dunno…it dosn’t seem like something I should be reading, but loads of people are telling me to…
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It sounds like you do know. There will always be “loads of people are telling me to…” in your Christian walk–Catholic, Christian and otherwise. A good time to develop your resolve and fortitude, or perhaps after giving the book enough of a reading, to evangelize these “loads of people” with the Truth. :twocents:
 
Is there a punch line to this question? It sounds like a story that could have come right out of the Old Testament to me.
 
Now I don’t want to spoil your reading of this Book, but the Main Character is MUCH BETTER than His great-great-great…great-grandfathers. If you’re too offended by this stuff, skip to the back of the book where He makes His appearance on the scene and saves the whole bunch. (oops, I just gave away the plot.)

When I read it the whole way through for the first time, it hit me why some people think we should ban that Book in schools. It isn’t a happy little children’s storybook.

But it is the story of the Fall and Redemption. The characters in the first part show us how *really bad *fallen human nature is, when the heroes do some of the stuff they do. Even the characters in the last part did some goofy stuff before the Main Character saves all of them and sends His Helper, The Advocate.

So, if this Book is too much for you to take, just skip to the ending, and then try the sequals, Lives of the Saints. But I highly recommend you continue reading it. It really is a Good Book.
 
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felra:
It sounds like you do know. There will always be “loads of people are telling me to…” in your Christian walk–Catholic, Christian and otherwise. A good time to develop your resolve and fortitude, or perhaps after giving the book enough of a reading, to evangelize these “loads of people” with the Truth. :twocents:
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Its the Bible

Happy April fools day!!!
 
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