Thomas Nelson - Totally Awesome, Super-Cool Bible Stories as Drawn by Nerdy Ned

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Totally awesome, super-cool Bible stories as drawn by Nerdy Ned.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4003-2025-7 (hardcover)

1. Bible stories, English.

BS551.3.T67 2012

220.9505--dc23

2012030003

Printed in the United States of America

12 13 14 15 16 QG 6 5 4 3 2 1

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A Note from Ned

Hi, everyone.

My name is Ned Moses Wiley. Ive always wished my parents had given me a middle name like Super-Cool or Most Awesome, but as far as middle names go, I guess Moses is pretty cool. Moses listened to God and led his people out of Egypt. I think my parents were hoping my middle name would inspire similar greatness. So far the only leading Ive done is to lead my cabin to a kickball victory at church camp. You gotta start somewhere, right?

This year in youth group, we worked our way through the Bible. Ive gotta sayit was pretty cool. I dont think Id ever realized just how much exciting stuff is in there. So I started drawing comics to go with each story (some people might think its a little nerdy, but I really want to be a comic book illustrator when I grow up) and writing out all the stuff I learned. Now I present to you my first masterpiece: Totally Awesome, Super-Cool Bible Stories As Drawn by Nerdy Ned! (Please, please. Hold your applause.)

Seriously, the Bible is not some boring old book with stories that dont mean anything to us today. Its about a really big, awesome God who loves us a lot and did really big, awesome thingsand its a guide for how God wants us to live.

I hope reading this book makes you excited about getting to know God and about hearing what He has to say to you in the Bible. And I hope you enjoy my doodles (I even saved some space for you to draw your own).

Catch you on the flip side,

Ned Super-Cool Moses Wiley

(Hey, just wanna see how it sounds...)

Contents

Old Testament

Contents

New Testament

Genesis 1

I n the beginning, there was nothing, except for God. I mean, there was really NOTHING. Much worse than the kind of nothing you feel like youre staring into when youre grounded and confined to your room.

There was no land, no sea, no air, no outer space, no animals, no chocolate, no candy corn, no ice cream, no broccoli. You get the big, blank picture.

God was moving around in the nothing, and He decided to go on a massive creating spree. And it was more exciting than any 3-D movie extravaganza youve ever seen.

God said, Let there be light! and boom! Just like that, there was light. God saw that the light looked good. (Of course it looked good; God made it!) God called the light day and the dark nightend of Day One.

On Days Two and Three, God called into existence the sky and named the dry land earth, and the waters became seas.

This marks the birth of my least favorite subjectearth science.

Then God invented farming and covered the earth in all kinds of plants. From giant redwood trees to microscopic algae and every fruit or vegetable you love or hate to eat, the whole planet was coveredjust like that.

On Day Four, God decided to go nuts up in the sky. For daytime, He whipped up a flaming ball of gas called the sun. For the night, He made a cooler earth-orbiting rock called the moon. Then God dusted the entire universe with a jatrillion twinkling stars.

Genesis 1-2

G od decided He wanted some creatures to live on this excellent planet, so He created animals. First, the water dwellers. He filled the seas with all sorts of slimy, scaly, swimming things. Big fish, little fish, pretty fish, ugly fish, and whales (which are mammals, not fish). Then He filled the skies with feathered, taloned, flying things. Sparrows, eagles, robins, falconsGod made them all on Day Five.

On Day Six, God made dogs and cats, beetles and arachnids, lions, bears, honey badgers, spiders, mosquitoes, ants, mice, marmots, ferrets, duckbilled platypuses, and everything else youve ever or never seen in a zoo. He made them all, and they looked goodalthough personally I think God probably laughed when He made the platypuses. Those things sure are funny looking.

After God assembled every animal ever, He still had the energy and imagination to create the coolest and most complicated being of them all: humans.

God made humans in His own image. God made two types of humansmale and female.