Good, Clean Livin’

I’ve just started reading The Year of Living Biblically, by A. J. Jacobs, and I love it. It is hysterical. As Jacobs says, it is one man’s humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible. This is the same guy who read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and wrote a book about it.

In addition to the odd struggles of living out the Bible, he has some great, simply dead on observations about it all.

How can these ethically advanced rules and these bizarre decrees be found in the same book? And not just the same book. Sometimes the same page. The prohibition against mixing wool and linen comes right after the command to love your neighbor. It’s not like the Bible has a section called “And Now for Some Crazy Laws.” They’re all jumbled up like a chopped salad.

~ by bart on February 1, 2008.