Finished Reading A Book...

     Oh, goodness! You know, I simply forgot, until I just finished this reading, that I needed to set a reading goal for 2022!! So, I am way.....behind! So before I do this review, I am going to set my reading goal for 55 books for 2022. So I have to get moving! So, I am behind about 7 weeks. (I have to really work at catching up!)

    Hrere I am for week 7. Today's book is : "ROSSLYN: Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail" by Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins.

© Tim Wallace-Murphyand Marilyn Hopkins 2000

© Element Books Limited 2000

ISBN: 0=7607 = 2047-9

Published by Barnes & Noble Booka, Inc.

    I was so anxious to get to read this book. However, it took me three months to read the book in its entirety. Why? Well, I found it so very boring! Kind of like reading a textbook on mathematics. I read things I've never heard before, and it certainly shed no enlightenment for me.

    I am a born-again, baptized in the physical and spiritual, Christian. A licensed minister in both Texas and West Virginia. But, I have always been filled with questions. I have studied the Bible through many different ways, and have read it through and through yearly since I turned 14. I hold dual Doctorates in Theology and another in Religous Studies of the World.  But I look at everything with an open mind. 

    Do I believe the Bible is the Word of God, and believe everything written in it? Yes, I do! The Word is where I seek refuge daily! I do my best to live according to God's Word!

    Yes, I have questions. Many, many questions. Not on the things that are written in the Scriptures, but on the things that are absent! Such as "What was Jesus doing between 12 and 33? The Scriptures tell us nothing about Him! Just suddenly thrust upon the scene! Would I have my faith shaken if if I found out , for instance, that Jesus fell in love and married someone? No, I don't think so. It would, I think, strengthen it! Just proving how human He became my Savior! That he felt the kind of love we all have known! That He fell in love and married! Did He and His spouse argue? Did they have children? 

    But, no, this did not tell me the answers to my many questions. So, to me it did not answer any questions I had. Why the title would lead you to believe what the Holy Grail actually was! A major question of many historians. Instead, it was written more on the scale as a technical text, that's not answering any questions.

    I found it very hard to read. However, this was the book I was advised by a lay minister to start reading with. Because he was adamant, I also recommend your reading the same. You can currently find this book in Abes Books, I did not find a copy on Amazon at present. However, there are copies available on eBay You can purchase a good condition used book for less than $19, including shipping..

    I am starting the next book, which is Custodians of Truth, by the same couple, Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins. (I've got to get cracking on this book so I can catch up to my goal for the year! By now I should have 8 under my belt! 

    Have you made a reading resolution for the year? If so, are you on target for fulfilling your goal?

  Well, "Rosslyn" goes on the bookshelf right now. It's the start for the year!