The following is a chronicle, a travelogue of learning and self discovery, of my trying to understand what do those who believe “get” and I don’t? Or, what I do get that those who believe don’t get? And, what is faith? Is it simply the dictionary definition of, “belief in something without any proof of that something”, or is it something more?
This book, to me, is broken into three sections.
First section: I compare this section of the book to an overture of a musical. Themes and ideas are just touched on and introduced here. My explanation of why I don’t believe, my intentions with this book and my quest are detailed in the first piece. You’re just about to begin the first section.
Second section: The research I conducted to help me be better prepared for the interviews, to learn about the faith I was told to have and to learn about the roots of Christianity and the Bible.
Third section: Here is the main content of the book. As stated, this began as a conversation with the wife. Then I thought, “Why just limit it to her?” In this section are eleven transcribed interviews with people I know that are devout believers, doubters like myself, family members, friends, acquaintances anybody who I thought would help me understand; and a Jewish relative of mine. I want to know how do they reconcile what is in the Bible which could be qualified as ‘absurd’ and [FONT="]what clicks with them which doesn’t click with me which enables them to have faith in God and the Bible.[/FONT]
