7/11/2023 0 Comments The testament of mary book reviewShe realises that these “businessmen” have worked out a careful version of the Gospels, but she is trying to record the truth. ‘Oh, everyone in the world.’ ” Her son’s disciples are divided among the crazies and the homeless who are ready to follow any leader and those who are her guardians, grim professionals of the new order, men for whom there is “no grief, no sorrow, no fuss, something cold, as though life is a business to be managed, that our time on earth requires planning and regulation and careful foresight.” They sound a bit like young communist zealots before the war. ‘Everyone in the world will know eternal life.’ ‘Oh, eternal life!’ I replied. ‘Who has been saved?’ ‘Those who came before him and those who live now and those who are not yet born’ ‘Saved from death?’ I asked. ?’ ‘His suffering was necessary,’ he interrupted, ‘it was how mankind would be saved.’ ‘Saved?’ I asked and raised my voice. His father sent him into the world that he might suffer on the cross.’ ‘His father?’ I asked. ‘His death has freed mankind from darkness and from sin. “ ‘He died to redeem the world,’ the other man said. “It was when they came to the last part that I stood up from the chair and moved away from them. The Virgin Mary, who is not a Christian, is trying to set the record straight about her son as she recalls things many years later in Ephesus, where she was “translated” not by a miracle but by a boat. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical. FICTION:THIS IS A SHORT BOOK, but it is as dense as a diamond.
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