It’s actually really funny that book 66 is a book about Jesus. Maybe not funny, but strange anyways, I guess at least it wasn’t book 666. Sorry….back to the topic.
This book was called Dinner with a Perfect Stranger. It was a short book and a fast read and I couldn’t put it down. It was about a man who got a secret invitation to dinner, he thought it was a joke by some of his co-workers. But he goes, and the man looks and talks and really believes he is Jesus. Throughout the conversation the 2 had, it really made me wish I could get a secret invitation to have dinner with Jesus. Not only would that be cool, but I have some questions of my own I’d like to ask him. A couple things in the book confused me, I mean I’m not 100% all up to date on my knowledge of religion, but a couple things just didn’t add up for me.
One was the fact that Jesus says he is God. That’s fine by me, I could accept that, but then how come everyone talks about God being Jesus’ father, and Jesus is God’s son. It makes it sound like it’s 2 people, is it, or is it all the same guy?
The thing that bugged me is that the guy in the story, his dad died when he was young, and he was still upset about that. Jesus said something to the fact that God does things like this to help people when they are straying away from God, and this hurt the person would feel would then bring them back to God. That hurt me because it would mean that God took my mom because someone was straying from God. Was that someone me? In the past few years I have actually been trying to better understand God and religion and what part it plays in my life and where I want it to be and all that. I was actually trying really hard, but now I feel like mom dying was my fault. But I think that’s messed up because mom dying didn’t bring me back to God, if anything it tore me further and further apart from him, and all the work I had done in the past few years now means nothing to me…….
