Reviews for Noah's Ark and Other Bible Stories: And Other Bible Stories

The average rating for Noah's Ark and Other Bible Stories: And Other Bible Stories based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-08 00:00:00 Pedro All I was really not impressed by this book. It throws out a bunch of facts without mentioning their relative importances, and in fact puts in things that are not important at all and leaves out important parts of religions. This is mainly true of Eastern religions the western ones are not so poorly described. But I'm going to describe Christianity the way the book describes Hinduism. "Christianity has a holy trinity of gods, the Holy Spirit, God and Jesus. Jesus was believed to have walked on water and revive the dead. Mary his mother was a virgin. Many christians eat bread and drink wine to symbolize eating Jesus." As you can see that description tells you some facts, while telling you nothing about what Christianity really is. Additionally the book is made up mostly of the Christian and Jewish religions. With those taking up about 60% and then all other religions taking up the rest. I know nothing about ester religions and was reading the book to learn about them.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-12 00:00:00 Cortney Evans A good overview of religions, but pretty basic at times. However, it is not intended to be an in-depth look at world religions. As such, it was informative and I absolutely loved the final page: The Golden Rule which describes the Golden Rule in each faith, but what that means to religions as a whole. Are all religions trying to achieve the same thing through different methods, or not? It was an interesting conclusion. While I understand it is impossible to describe many of the religions explained in this book fully due to the many sects within each faith, I found a huge emphasis on Catholicism in the section on Christianity. I would have liked to have seen a little less emphasis there, and more equally spread with the protestant faiths.