Wednesday January 26, 2005
While I am talking about books for Christian kids (see previous post) I gotta share one that is a little perplexing. It is one of those “little golden books”. Overall, good book and glad we got it. Jesus is a little too Caucasian for my taste, but the illustrations are pretty good if you ignore that. The part that is really weird is that it skips from the message about God clothing the lilies (flowers is what it actually says) in the field, so we shouldn’t strive for wealth because God will take care of us, directly to the last page where it says “After Jesus’ death, his followers took his teachings all around the world. And the stories he told are still known and loved and retold today, in every land on Earth”. Ok, that is true, however, something is definitely missing there. lol. They totally skip any reference to the passion week, his crucifixion, his death, and raising again. Seems a bit odd for a book called “The Story of Jesus”
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
I’ll comment more later, kids need me.
My husband and I don’t buy white Jesus books…. Jesus wasn’t white… he didn’t wear a blue sash (colored cloth was much too expensive), and he didn’t have blue eyes. Sadly this is how most books picture him (as well as the flannel graphs at church).
And yes… if that’s all there was to the story they did miss the story of Jesus…
I meant that the curtain (in this case the missing portion of His life) is being drawn over the Mystery of Faith and the publishers seemingly want you to think of Jesus as just a nice guy who told stories, not as God Incarnate.
A secular ‘wasn’t he a nice man’ sort of Jesus. Like you said, certainly true, yes, but misleading.
that makes complete sense Fee…thank you for clarifying. I thought it might be something along those lines, but wasn’t getting it very well.