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What if God is more like Christ than we're taught?

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Revisado: 02-23-21

This is a good introduction to the more Eastern understanding of soteriology and atonement theory. Christ provided many differing analogies of the deep mystery of our salvation but never provided formulas. The West (Rome and her Protestant Children who came after her) continue to concentrate on only the Juridical analogy. Some like Calvin and Edwards have further pushed that into an atonement theory which is completely that of a vengeful and wrathful god seeking retribution, where we are in Edwards words "sinners in the hands of an angry god." This is the perversion which occurs when we take one metaphor out of context and make it into a methodology we force on a god of our own design.

What if God were less like John Calvin and more like Jesus Christ? What if the True God can also be understood as a healer and restorer? What if instead of purposefully creating some for destruction, God so loves the world that he desires that all would be saved? What if rather than punishing the disease of sinfulness in our lives, the Great Physician came to heal us of our malady, cure us from our physical/mental/spiritual illness of fallenness and separation from God, and create in us a clean heart, renew a right spirit in us, and heal and restore us prodigals to a loving relationship with a Father who both gives us the freedom of will to reject Him and yet runs towards us with rejoicing when we return?

What if we are not sinners in the hands of some petty and angry god, but rather prodigals in the arms of a Father rejoicing in our return?

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Skip the Audible, buy the book

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Revisado: 02-20-19

This is a good introduction to the subject of deep learning, but the audible format just doesn't suit it. He is constantly making references to illustrations. There is a PDF to download which contains most but not all of the illustrations. Also, he often references "this URL" in the audible but never specifies what the URL is. The accompanying PDF does not contain those URL references, at all, anywhere. Also, images on the PDF are such that they do not align with page breaks when printing. Thus images are split in half, with the top of the image on the bottom of one page, and the bottom of the image on the top of the next page. Overall a disapointingly sloppy implementation.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a really good book. It is only valuable as an audible if you own the physical book and want it read to you. I am probably going to try to return it as an audible and purchase the physical book instead.

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Outstanding book for Protestants!

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Revisado: 01-24-19

Having spent half a century as a Protestant (LCMS Lutheran), I wish I could have encountered this book decades ago. It gives sound Biblical and historical scholarship to address the anti-Mary soundbites which float around many Protestant circles. Through proper understanding of how the Ancient Church viewed Mary, we are led to a clearer understanding of who Christ is. As the Eastern Orthodox say, "all Mariology is Christology." In almost every icon of Mary, she is holding Christ and pointing us to Him. Mary's last words recorded in Scripture to the servants at the wedding feast - and to us - were "what ever He tells you, do it."

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