Fairy Tale Spotlight: John I [Book Review]

What even is this? Another book of "John?" Didn't I review that back at the Gospels?  Why don't I remember this existing?

"John I" is the sixty-second book of the "Holy Bible," and it was written by John, the same John who wrote the aforementioned gospel. It's a bit repetitive, but there's some interesting stuff in this one.

This is the very first time in the entire Bible where the word "antichrist" appears, but its not necessarily referring to the one you have heard about. In the context of the book, he isn't talking about the Antichrist, but rather a or many antichrists. Essentially he means false prophets. I spent a bit of time scratching my head before I came to that conclusion. John uses the word quite a lot, but much of that has to do with how unbearably repetitive he is in this book.

The passion from the gospel he wrote is still here, but John is now an apostle and writing his letters, as you do when you become an apostle. I'd say he is a bit better at writing raw narratives than he is preaching through a letter, but it's not as bad as I am probably making it sound. I'm just nitpicking mostly.

Much of the book has to do with the very idea that God the Father had to give his Son in order to make things right, and the  significance of that is rather staggering to John. The man is obsessed with the doctrine. He talks about hypocrisy in people who claim to serve God, but they don't seem to be following the ways of Christ. The big example he repeats all the time is to say they serve Christ but they hate their brother. The two can't exist at the same time. Makes sense.

The repetitive nature of this book makes me think that John may have been frustrated with people. He may have been overstating things because people have a tendency to not understand unless its banged into their brains. It's really too bad, if that's the case. Even so, this is the Holy Spirit who is talking through John, and repetition is not a stranger to that particular part of the Trinity.

"John I" is about a 15 minute read, and it covers much of what was already dealt with in previous books. It isn't as well written as his gospel, but it's still worth a read if you can spare that small amount of time. Enjoy.

This blog was written on March 10, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: Peter II [Book Review]

"Peter II" is the sixty-first book of the "Holy Bible," and it was written by Simon Peter. It's not as controversial or interesting as his first letter, but there is still a theme here.

Much of this book has to do with false prophets and how to tell them apart from the real thing. Even so, they should at this point have the information they need from the Apostles. But do understand that this information about false prophets is intended for modern times too,

A good litmus test for a prophet is to check to see if they have gotten anything wrong before. Sometimes they say something will happen, it doesn't, and then they cleverly explain it away. A real prophet is always dead on.

False prophesying can also be the result of people speaking in their ignorance. A lot of people have ideas about reality, and they speak them as a matter of pride. It is a very silly thing to believe something you heard another person say, even me. Like... I know I am writing all these opinion blogs for the Bible, but I encourage you to read the books for yourself and get out of it what you can. I'm just some guy somewhere who likes reading and writing reviews of the stuff he reads. Who am I to teach you anything? The truth is... I'm not.

If you really want to know the truth, you need to go on your own journey, I'm just here to publish my own findings, not to change anybody. That said, "Peter II" is a recommended read. It may not have the same kick as the first one, but it does have a point that should be taken seriously.

This blog was written on March 9, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: Peter I [Book Review]

"Peter I" is the sixtieth book of the "Holy Bible," and it was written by Simon Peter. Apparently James got one book, but that's okay. It was a good one. Now we move on to Simon Peter who had some falling out with Paul, but, to this day, I don't know why that happened. Nevertheless, we have a very good but controversial letter to a rather large number of people.

As I said in an earlier blog, the Holy Spirit tends to offend everyone. Where I have chosen not to mention what these things were in past blogs, I think I can get away with it this time. This one was hard even on me. I think most Christians would have difficulty with this most unpopular topic, and the reason for it is... it just seems so unfair. But in many ways we are tested, and this is one of them.

So one of the prevailing themes of the Old Testament was the fact that God the Father would punish people by turning them over into the hands of their enemies. This happened more times than I could count. I was a bit curious if the advent of Jesus Christ would end this practice, but no. "Peter I" out rightly makes very clear that this tradition of the Father yet continues, and if it happens in the New Testament, it happens up to the present day.

If your nation seems to be under the power of horrible people, it is, as a matter of fact, God punishing his people. But that isn't so much the controversial part, even though many might not like that. The real difficult thing here is that we are expected to respect and love the evil people in power. Ouch. Like... that really hurts. It gets me right in the chest... like a bullet to the heart.

Unfortunately there is vast precedence within the whole of the Bible itself for this to be a mistake. It's very real, and I know it hurts. But to be Christian, you must acknowledge the words of the Holy Spirit, as offensive as it is. If you are under the oppression of evil, it is because God has chosen to turn away from you for a time. In that case, it is time to pray for those in power and to pray for your country. It's going to take as much faith as it took Noah to build his ark. I'm sorry, but it's written in black and white and correlated to the extreme. This is Scripture.

That said, the first book of Simon Peter was quite good and well written. I highly recommend you give it a read. Enough said here. Moving on.

This blog was written on March 8, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: James [Book Review]

Well, I guess we're done with Paul.

"James" is the fifty-ninth book of the "Holy Bible," and it was written by James himself. It is not dissimilar to the previous letters by Paul, but there is a definite difference in writing style. It does still feel like it was written by an apostle.

The theme of this book was extremely easy to lock down. Although there was a chapter about the importance of faith, the real deal here was about hypocrisy. It even uses that word which is actually not a word used often in the Bible as a whole.

"James" also breaks down the idea of joining a religion as a means to get away with eternal life. Some people join a religion like it's some sort of holy club. But like the book says, faith without acts means nothing. You have to be 100% given to the faith or else there is no point.

There are a lot of people out there [I know some of them] that can quote a ton of Bible verses and even explain the faith with precision, but their lives are filled with blatant sins that seriously contradict with the things they just cited. This is the hypocrisy explained in this short book. And if you are interested in this very important staple of the real Christianity then you might want to read it... but most people will ignore it... or memorize it and not actually bother putting it into practice.

That's it for this one. I recommend the book. James is a fine writer, and another great voice-box for the Holy Spirit.

This blog was written on March 7, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: Hebrews [Book Review]

Don't you just love books that speak plainly?

"Hebrews" is the fifty-eighth book of the "Holy Bible," and although a lot of people don't know who really wrote this one, there is a small chance it was written by Paul. The authorship of this one had me really skeptical, and it's a subject of discussion unto itself.

The thing of it is, Paul was extremely consistent in the manner of which he wrote his stuff. There were things he always said and did in a particular way. In "Hebrews" the author has an almost entirely different writing style, but there are a few parts, mostly towards the end, where it does actually sound like Paul.

One thought as to why the book may be so different is because he is not talking to the Gentiles (not Jewish) this time around. He is talking to the people who were God's chosen all throughout the Old Testament. And the difference between the Old and New Testament is the very crux of his argument in this book.

If you had been following my reviews of books in the "Old Testament," God required a sacrifice from people on a regular basis to make up for their innate shortcomings, and even this would never quite be enough. It was certainly not enough to forgive their sins. Nobody was allowed into the holiest of holies within the temple except for one high priest who managed all these things. Also, he could only go in there once a year and then swiftly booted out.

"Hebrews" explicitly and plainly points out that Jesus has risen to rank of "highest" priest, and his temple is one that was not built by human hands. Remember that, when Jesus died, the curtain in the human-made temple ripped in half. That is God's funny way of saying that this temple is now obsoleted. There's a new temple now, and it lies in a place that we can eventually get to, but only through the new high priest, that being Jesus.

Naturally, it may be very difficult to see how all this is true, but the book is so plainly written that I think this blog is not going to do as good of a job as that book would. But the book makes a really powerful explanation of faith. It goes through all the times faith was used to trust that God would help them, and in all those times, amazing things happened. What is interesting about faith is that, it isn't the belief in unproven things, but merely things unseen. You can still have reason to believe in the unseen thing.

Once again, I am not going to do it justice. I cannot understate how well-written this book is. It's an eye-opener. It may not have as much of an impact on people who didn't read the Old Testament, but there is still a lot here that's worth looking at. "Hebrews" answers a lot of questions people would probably have concerning Jesus and where he fits in with Christianity. For this reason, I cannot recommend "Hebrews" enough. Whether it was written by Paul or not, it's a solid book that seats itself as one of the most important pieces of literature in the Christian faith.

This blog was written on March 5, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: Philemon [Book Review]

Sometimes it's just very hard to figure out what's happening from just a bunch of letters. A lot of things are assumed, and there's really nobody there to explain the situation. In the case of this book, I had to do some further research, and I think I locked things down a bit more than I have in previous books.

"Philemon" is the fifty-seventh book of the "Holy Bible." It was written and was stated to be written by the hand of Paul. Once again, I love that he signs his stuff.

Paul has written many of these letters from a prison cell. I had suspected this, but now I know it for certain. I had not fully understood what he meant when he would call himself a "prisoner of Jesus Christ." I thought it was some sort of poetic explanation at first, but he means that he has been persecuted and placed in prison for his following of Jesus. I got it now. Sorry for being so silly.

This whole book is a whopping 2 minute read. It's plot was also filled with assumed knowledge which I didn't have. I went through the whole thing very confused, so I had to check into what happened elsewhere. I haven't really done that since the Old Testament books.

The man (Philemon) who this letter is written to is a slave owner. One of his slaves, named Onesimus, ran away from him and managed to make it into Paul's cell somehow. Here, he was told the story of Jesus and became a Christian as well as a good friend of Paul himself. The letter, quite simply, is pleading for Philemon to forgive his slave. That's all.

Without the context, this book is difficult to understand. Now that you know what happened, I recommend sitting down for 2 minutes and looking "Philemon" over. It's only a single short chapter. Enjoy.

This blog was written on March 1, 2022.

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Fairy Tale Spotlight: Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair [Video Game Review]

Holy crap! A review for something other than a Bible book! I do play games on the side. Some of them I plan on making a review for, but then my interest in them wane pretty bad. But here is one I really wanted to talk about.

"Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair" is a video game that was released in 2002. It only came out for PC, Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation 2, although the PS2 version was only released in Europe. This was the first 3D version of the series which was was preceded by various 2D ports on older systems. The original games were CD-based arcade games that were full animations by Don Bluth based around quick time events (pressing an input at just the right time rather than controlling anyone on screen.)

Now that we got all the info stuff out of the way, let me just say that I freaking love this game. It did not get the greatest press at the time it came out, and much of this was because of the jankiness of the controls, but if that bothers you then you might not understand what Dragon's Lair is all about.

The series has always starred Dirk the Daring who is a bumbling knight always trying to save Princess Daphne from various villains. The guy is so bad at being a knight that it is amazing he can do anything right. The problems with the controls, at least to me, has to do more with who he is rather than with a mistake made by the developers. I'm not saying they did not screw up, but I actually prefer this particular game to be janky because of who I am playing as.

I mean... if you just look at how he uses his sword. The silly man just swings it around wildly like he has not had even one day of training. Dirk is not knight material, but if he was, the game would lack the character it needed to forgive all of its shortcomings. With Dirk at the helm, those shortcomings actually make sense. Every time I fail because of the terrible controls, I don't blame myself or the developers; I blame Dirk!

And there is something magical about actually finishing and winning this game as Dirk. The word "hero" used to mean that someone was touched or favored by the gods. If that be true, then Dirk is a bonafide hero. He defeats odds that are well against him, and it warms my heart every time I finish this game.

And to be fair, the game isn't totally broken. The camera controls are perfectly serviceable. The jumping mechanics are flimsy but functional. Although I don't like that you have to scroll through all your skills in only one direction, it does kind of feel like Dirk is rummaging through his backpack at the most inopportune of times. There is a lock-on mechanic that almost never works reliably, but that's another thing I attribute to Dirk. Everything works, but just barely enough for Dirk to make it through.

On top of all this, I do actually think the team that made it was proud of this game. The game came with a number of documentaries to promote it, and they made it seem like it was the most momentous thing they ever produced. The world might not think so, as this game seems to have fallen out of time, but I kind of love the joy this game gave them. And I agree with it! I think this may be my favorite in the series!

They even included a wonderful song during the credits sung by Princess Daphne herself called "He's My Guy." It's actually pretty brilliant, and I encourage you to look it up sometime. They really put a lot of love into this game, and it is one of my favorites.

The version I had was the GameCube version, and it played very well. I do recommend "Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair" if you can get yourself a copy. Don't let the game frustrate you. Remember that it's not you that's messing up... it's Dirk!

This blog was written on February 28, 2022.

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