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[Following is a volunteer review of "Who Told You That You Were Naked?" by William Combs.]

Few things are more important than understanding the fight in all of us between good and evil. Author William E. Coombs does an excellent job of reexamining what went right and what went wrong in the garden of Eden as told in the bible in his incisive book Who Told You That You Were Naked?

The author starts out by re-introducing us to what happened with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. We meet Adam who is filled with kindness as he takes care of an innocent lamb. The Lord then speaks to Adam cautioning him not to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

The Lord goes on to mold a woman, Eve, from one of Adam’s ribs. Eve is then tempted by a crafty serpent to listen to convincing lies and commit sin by eating the forbidden fruit. Sin then enters the world as Adam then is intimate with Eve producing Cain and Abel and the rest is history. The author interestingly quotes about an important bible lesson from Genesis – 2: 24, 25 about husbands and wives saying “Man will leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh.” All through the book the message is consistent of how faith and belief will redeem us from evil and hopelessness through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I truly enjoyed the conversational writing style and comfortable pace of this book. I especially liked where the author interjected personal anecdotes to help the reader relate to a verse in scripture. In addition, many colored text boxes were apparent throughout the entire book which helped to reemphasize important applicable references to passages in the bible.

The explanations of important bible passages were well written and very clear. The author also used humor to help make his points such as referring to the world’s first reconstructive surgery when talking about the removal of Adam’s rib. The study questions at the end of each chapter were also very useful and would make for a great study aid in a bible study group.

In essence, this is an extremely interesting and well written book that I would highly recommend to young adult and adult readers seeking to learn more about the bible and the important issue of good and evil in our lives. I found no typos or weaknesses of note in this book and gladly give it a 4 out of 4 stars rating.

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Who Told You That You Were Naked?
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I laud authors who find creative means to share the Bible and its important lessons. Thanks, Jamesokunmd, for your engaging review!

Miriam Molina wrote:I laud authors who find creative means to share the Bible and its important lessons. Thanks, Jamesokunmd, for your engaging review!

You're very welcome Miriam Molina! Thank you for your very nice feedback.

I enjoy reading the different reviews on William E. Coombs' very insightful book, Who Told You That You Were Naked? I think jamesokunmd's perspective on the book is interesting and nicely delivered.

I have been planning to read this novel but haven't read it yet. Thank you for such a nice review

This is one of the better reviews I have read about this book. I am about 3/4 done with it and have been very curious to read what others thought, how similar/dissimilar it is with what I think. I agree with your take. So far it is very well written, very accessible, and as you mentioned, appropriate for young adults or those interested in faith but maybe not well versed yet. (I realize, the last part goes a bit beyond what you said.) I am really looking forward to finishing this book!