- ISBN13: 9781434768513
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description”Sometimes I feel like when I make decisions that are remotely biblical, people who call themselves Christians are the first to criticize and say I’m crazy, that I’m taking the Bible too literally, or that I’m not thinking about my family’s well-being. . . When people gladly sacrifice their time or comfort or home, it is obvious that they trust in the promises of God. Why is it that the story of someone who has actually done what Jesus commands resonates deeply with us, but we then assume we could never do anything so radical or intense? Or why do we call it radical when, to Jesus, it is simply the way it is? The way it should be?”
i just browsed this book this morning. . .
goes on and on about things. . .
in describing God. . God is . . . he missed God is love. .
i want to go home again this evening and check again. . .
one of the
as George MacDonald said “But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem
greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is. ”
Tom talbott (please read his book “the inexplicable love of God”)
wrote this
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Perhaps the most serious difficulty I encountered, however, was a seemingly intentional kind of subterfuge. Consider how J. I. Packer, a popular lecturer and influential writer in Reformed circles a couple of decades ago, handles the love of God in his book Knowing God. 6 A strong proponent of limited election,7 Packer is one of the few recent proponents of such a doctrine who tries to provide a consistent interpretation of I John 4:8 and 16. He in effect asks whether the proposition,
God is love, expresses “the complete truth about God. ” By way of an answer, he juxtaposes two assertions. He begins one section with this italicized sentence as a caption: “`God is love’ is not the complete truth about God so far as the Bible is concerned”;8 then, three pages later, he begins his next section with this italicized sentence as a caption: “`God is love’ is the complete truth about God so far as the Christian is concerned. “9 From the perspective of a Christian who looks to the Bible as an authority, however, these captions are no less perplexing than Edwards’ apparent inconsistency. If the proposition, God is love, does not express the complete truth about God so far as
the Bible is concerned, but does express the complete truth about God so far as the Christian is concerned,it would seem to follow that either the Bible or the Christian is mistaken. And what, one
wonders, does Packer mean by “the complete truth about God” anyway? In a perfectly obvious sense, the proposition, God is love, does not express the complete truth about God, not if God is
also omnipotent and omniscient; but that would be true, I should think, both so far as the Bible is concerned (at least on Packer’s account) and so far as the Christian is concerned. Does Packer really want to say that the Christian’s perspective is different from that of the Bible?
Rating: 1 / 5
The quick shipping and delivery was what won me over. Great product all around! Would buy from this seller again!
Rating: 5 / 5
Other than the Holy Bible, Crazy Love is the most significant book I have ever read. You will not be able to read this book and not change your life.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book was shipped promptly and was in EXCELLENT condition.
However, I read mainly CS Lewis & things of that sort– mainly books that focus on philosophy (specifically religious philosophy). . . so reading this book was like reading a Dr. Seuss book sans illustrations. It has some good subject material, in a less than challenging linguistic set up. Good ideas, mediocre writing. I guess it depends upon your tastes. I’d set the reading level around the 9th grade.
Rating: 3 / 5
I am just starting my second read of this book. Wow. . . . convicting, very well written and said. A message that all true born-again Christians need to hear.
Rating: 5 / 5