Doubts would come later, and I'll write more about doubt and this competing for my imagination in my book.

Television images, girls, and a magazine that my neighbor, aptly named Adam, pulled us breathlessly into the woods to show my brother and me competed with the words of God for my imagination. I was living the early Bible story already and didn't realize it. One last and important thing: As Adam and Eve had a competing desire and sinned, so also in those early years I was introduced to a competing desire and sinned. I never did, and tripped up weeks into any plan, growing bored, confused, and feeling like I was missing something. We were given reading plans and encouraged to read the whole Bible. My early experiences were also marked with what felt like failure. Anselm's motto, 'Faith seeking understanding' is a good description of my search for God as an eight year old. To say that I read the Bible with confusion and fear would be an understatement. For those first few years of my experience with the Bible, I wanted to believe and be baptized so I could go to heaven when I died and not go to hell. I read and marked New Testament passages about belief and baptism. While I heard Old Testament stories from Bible class teachers as examples of faith, that two thirds of my first Bible seems untouched, unread. In the featured image of this post is the title page where my Mom wrote, ' Gregory Taylor Dad and Mom: We love you and pray that you will always want to study God's Word and follow what it says.

My experience with the Bible began in the 1970s when I was given my first King James Version Bible by my parents, Terrel and Charlotte Taylor. I'm researching for an upcoming book and I need your help to understand the wide range of experience people have with the Bible. I wrote a book on a doctor in Honduras after interviewing and conferring with more than one hundred people. I wrote a novel set in Uganda where I lived seven years and listened for hours on end to stories of ordinary and extraordinary Ugandans. When I write a book, it comes after years of experience, research, and writing in a particular area.

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