After reading the book "A Year of Living Biblically," by A.J. Jacobs, former pastor Ed Dobson decided to devote a year trying to live as Jesus did, based on what is written about him in the Bible and other historical documents.
"I read that book a little over a year ago, and I thought, well, if a secular Jew could do this, certainly a follower of Jesus could," Dobson said today on "Good Morning America Weekend."
Dobson, the vice president of spiritual formation at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Mich., said he did not shave, ate kosher, observed the Sabbath and read through the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John every week.
He even had a couple of beers along the way. "I would often go down to the bar, sit up at the counter, drink a beer and talk about God, which Jesus was accused of being a glutton and a drunkard," he said.
Personally I think this is a little bit silly. While I applaud the effort, he's not reliving anything but what he thinks or was told Jesus did. On top of that, he was reading from gospels written many years after Jesus was dead, which Jesus is absolutely guaranteed to NOT have done, so his experiment goes completely askew.
While it's a valiant effort, it seems misguided to me... but then again, what do I know?
Read more or watch the video at ABC News.
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