The Book NLT - Book Review

  For anybody that wants to read the Bible, but has a problem with it catching your attention, then I recommend this.  I love reading fictional novels and that's how this is tailored. By no means am I saying that the Bible is fictional. It’s just often that the traditional versions (King James, New International, etc.) can come off as religious than realistic.  It engages you into the stories and the pages come alive.  For stories that seem ambiguous it breaks it down simpler to understand.

           My favorite story comes from II Samuel 19:1-9. David lost his son, Absalom and naturally he’s grieving but here’s the problem.  Absalom was trying to kill him - that's right David’s son was trying to kill him but that was because his half brother, Amnon had raped his sister Tamar (not Braxton, lol) - that's another story.  Anyway, David’s depression was so bad that it infected the whole entire city.  The prophet, Nathan, comes and set’s everything in order.  Now, this is my interpretation, not The Book of the part:

           “OK, we get it.  ‘Boo-hoo-hoo, Absalom is gone’ and I understand, but let’s be for real, he wanted you pushing up daisies and if the tables were turned, you think he was going to through the same motions saying ‘Oh Daddy’s gone?’ HELL NO!!! So this is what you’re going to do. Get up off your ass, first you need to wash your twot because you just nasty, then you're going down to give these dudes their props for saving your royal behind.  And if you don't, we are out of this piece and then you'll see how big and bad you think you are – remember you have other kids and a jealous ex-wife” and guess what, David did it.

             That was just an example of how my interpretation.  And it’s also page-turner that makes you want to read, so that you don’t have to go to the traditional “read-the-Bible-in-a-year” program. Once you have completed, you can finally say I have read the Bible.