The Book of Genesis (comics) was brought up Catholic, and thus is familiar with the more common Bible stories, but gave up the Catholic faith when he was 16. He went through a phase when he was 15 where he "[went] to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying", but when he started to scrutinize it, "it just fell apart so quickly." Crumb says he is spiritual, gnostic, and not an atheist; he is "interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things." He believes there is a God, but "I don't believe [the Book of Genesis is] the Word of God.
Bible for children Bible for children Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible aimed at children. First printed in London in 1759, "The Children's Bible" (Philadelphia, 1763) was the earliest Bible for children printed in America. Story-Bibles include Christian Gottlob Barth's "Bible Stories" which was a popular children's Bible in India during the 1840s, Logan Marshall's "The Wonder Book of Bible Stories" (1904), Arthur S. Maxwell's "The Bible Story" (1953–57) and "The Children's Bible Story Book" (1991) a children's version of the Bible by Anne de Graaf placed in United Kingdom