The Devoted I bet most devout Christians and Jews, who follow the Bible, believe their following the Book of Books down to the core , but are they really taking the Bible literally? Imagine living life exactly as the past prophets did. From stoning individuals ,flying to the holy home of the major three religions , Jerusalem and herding sheep ,performing a chicken sacrifice in New York ,to getting someone to take a house call and come inspect your whole wardrobe for anything containing “mixed fabric”. You can take what the average Christian/Jew presumes to be absolutely following the word of God and amplify it by 100. That’s how you’d describe A.J Jacobs’ journey in his book, The Year Of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible . A.J Jacobs
…show more content…
For instance, on day 2, his entry followed the scripture “Be fruitful and multiply...”(Jacobs,17) and in this entry Jacobs recorded how he and his wife were trying to have another child ,but were encountering issues.These scriptures were extremely supportive to each entry. They gave some knowledge to non-bible followers (followers of different religions and secular people ) and they were a reference incase you no longer recall what the point of that entry is -since he does tend to be repetitive and digress from the topic at times. He also uses satire quite often to highlight the extremes and the odd rules of religion,which I agree with,religion can be questionable.
Another aspect of the book I admired was how the theory of cognitive dissonance ,a very interesting concept actually played out with time. Prayer becomes natural to him and the idea of God is not so obscure to his mentality anymore.He says after his son is mildly injured, “My first reaction, as I was running to show Julie , was to pray to
For instance, on day 2, his entry followed the scripture “Be fruitful and multiply...”(Jacobs,17) and in this entry Jacobs recorded how he and his wife were trying to have another child ,but were encountering issues.These scriptures were extremely supportive to each entry. They gave some knowledge to non-bible followers (followers of different religions and secular people ) and they were a reference incase you no longer recall what the point of that entry is -since he does tend to be repetitive and digress from the topic at times. He also uses satire quite often to highlight the extremes and the odd rules of religion,which I agree with,religion can be questionable.
Another aspect of the book I admired was how the theory of cognitive dissonance ,a very interesting concept actually played out with time. Prayer becomes natural to him and the idea of God is not so obscure to his mentality anymore.He says after his son is mildly injured, “My first reaction, as I was running to show Julie , was to pray to