![]() ![]() ![]() And there is some bad theology too, which is also going to-you get the idea. And that’s going to offend some more Christian readers. While the author tries to portray Joshua as sinless, his best friend is anything but. This book is genuinely funny, but it’s also a bit irreverent, and that’s going to be off-putting to many Christian readers. It’s also a touching story of friendship between two boys: one the Son of God, the other the inventor of sarcasm. It’s a fun romp across the ancient world, full of action and laughs. Lamb tells the story of Jesus (called Joshua in the book) through the eyes of his best friend Biff, from their childhood in Israel (including their boyhood attempt to circumcise a statue of Apollo), to their young adulthood spent searching for the three wise men in the East, to the actual years of Jesus’s ministry. So begins Christopher Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, and the only account of Jesus’s life to ask the all-important question, “What if Jesus had known kung fu?” “You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t. ![]()
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