BOOK REVIEW: ADAM AND EVE MAKE A BIG, BIG MISTAKE BUT GOD FIX' IT from Jean Ann Field-Ridley

ADAM AND EVE MAKE A BIG, BIG MISTAKE BUT GOD FIX' IT from Jean Ann Field-Ridley
ADAM AND EVE MAKE A BIG, BIG MISTAKE BUT GOD FIX' IT September 15,2023
by Jean Ann Field-Ridley @JenanFR
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MY REVIEW

"Elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos" is the title of a book by a Christian, defined in

this review as someone who has faith in Jesus Christ in some form or fashion, named Irenaeus,

of Hellenistic ancestry who lived in Lugdunum now commonly called in modernity Lyon in

France, who lived circa 130 to 202 years after the birth of Jesus. The title translates, Control and

overthrow the falsely named Knowing. The message in this old book is to suggest one thing, no

option available. Orthodoxy, straight opinion, is superior to heresy, choice. The Gnostic

movement at its historic core opposed the idea that Christianity has one line of thinking, a

straight road. Throughout the course of Christian history Christian groups through schisms, like

the split between the Christian Church centered in Roma side the Christian church centered in

Nova Roma, or groups protesting a new way, like the Church of Jesus Christ and latter-day

saints, publicly support heresy.

"Adam And Eve Make Big Mistake" by Jean Ann Field-Ridley is a modern book, while its

purpose reflect the literary heritage of Irenaeus plus the Gnostics, through a Christian making a

book to a need in the Christian community of the literature's time while emphasizing a choice

that is against a standard presentation of Christianity.

Field-Ridley is a Black woman of the Caribbean and has publicly stated she feels in the

Caribbean Christianity is viewed by many as a religion for whites of European descent or whites

of anywhere. Sequentially, many Blacks in the Caribbean don't see a choice in being Christian, if

they also wish to be true to themselves.

The book is geared towards children of the Caribbean, using literature that when spoken

resounds culturally to the Caribbean. While I comprehended immediately the stories within the

book, reflecting Christian bible stories, the flavor of the text was unfamiliar to me, as for

example the book of Genesis covered in the book.

In the spirit of early Christian literature this book does not interpret each book of the apostles or

all books of the Septuagint, the predecessor of the Old Testament. The illustrative border style is

elegant or beautiful while the images are incoherent in storytelling approach.

Christian parents may need to make adjustments to what they say while they read based on their

faith in Jesus. But the book totally embraces or never betrays through language or imagery

aracial unity in humanity. Which is a prerequisite in the goal of the author or the agenda in the

book, to get a populace of humans who have lived under the power of another populace to

embrace a culture delivered by slave chain when they are no longer enslaved. It is in the spirit of

heresy, choice, that Jesus, born a Jew and surrounded by Jewish clergy testing or challenging

him, chose to lead a new way open to all, which became Christianity. No book can guarantee an

affect on a reader. But after an attempt, if it can increase, by any measure, a human child

choosing to embrace or hold onto something from humanity they opposed or doubted, the

extended family of Eve and Adam is better for it.