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Summary: Teaching Tool
Review: Eli is a great tool to both those who have read the bible'yet not understood the New Testament, and a great bridge for unbelievers.Bill Meyers has succuessfully removed the barriers of time and cultural to give us a fresh interpretation to the life and words of Jesus. Thank you!
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Summary: Simply terrific
Review: This novel is without peer. Moving, inspiring, an engaging story presenting TRUTH in a fresh, penetrating way. The best contemporary Christian novel I've read in a very long time.
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Summary: My favorite Bill Myers book!
Review: I've read all of Myers work, and this is his best so far! A creative and haunting story that turned all my preconceptions upside down and gave me a new look at an old story. I highly recommend!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This was one of the worst books that I have ever read! It is the only book that I have stopped reading in the middle of it and I have read quite a few books of all kinds. I spit in this book's presence!
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Summary: An intersting premise, but...
Review: I was intrigued when I read the blurb on the cover of this book. I thought it would have interesting ideas about what the last 2000 years might have been like, and what our own world might be like, if Jesus hadn't been born when and where he was. I was disappointed. The Christian religion, both Catholicism and Protestantism, has had such a huge influence on modern life that no speculation about its absence should fail to document those differences. Catholicism and its missionary activity helped in the discovery of the "New World," where we live. It helped in the homogenization of the many nations of Europe in the first millennium, and in shaping the mindset of the peoples of those nations. Calvinism is directly responsible for our culture today. Its idea that profit is okay, is a sign of God's favor, allowed our capitalistic world to be a reality. Without these influences and many others, an alternate world would be vastly different. For one thing, Santa Monica would be named something else. How could there have been a Saint Monica if there was no Christianity to create a saint named Monica (or anything else.) Bill Myers missed a great opportunity here, and deeply disappointed me.
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Summary: Eli
Review: This is a thought-provoking version of the story of Jesus in a modern day setting. Bill Myers has a way of writing that kept me reading in anticipation of how he would handle each stage of the life of Jesus and how the main character interacts with him. The story interchanges between the main character's "real world" and the world he encounters in his alternative state due to his health condition. Quite an interesting read...
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Summary: Eli, Jesus, what's the diffrence?
Review: This is a good book that makes you think. From the begining as long as you know the christmas story it's fairly obvius what is going on, with out reading the back cover. Eli, was this generation's jesus for the book. I really liked it and it was a good parallel to the real story of Jesus' life. The only thing I found that was real diffrent was Eli was too frank to his audince, he would tell a parable, but then tell the meaning of it. Jesus told the parable but didn't tell the crowd the meaning, only his deciples. But over all it was a graet book, and need's to be read.
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Summary: Eli
Review: This book was amazing! Conrad, the main character, is an unsaved man! This book just shows that God can go through amazing lengths to prove his grace to mankind! Conrad discovers Jesus through an "alternate" universe. Jesus Christ is on earth during modern times, by the name of Eli! He performs miracles and he is denied by many people. Conrad accepts Christ in this "alternate" universe and becomes a saved man. He is in this "other world" while in a coma. Instead of awakening from his coma, he dies at the end, however, Eli embraces him into the kingdom of heaven. This book was an exciting read and I kept turning the pages. During Conrad's walk with Christ, he becomes a changed man. He learns to respect and love his ex-wife, Suzanne. He realizes the pain and heartache he has caused Suzanne and his daughter Julia. He repents for his sins, and embraces Suzanne in his life again. This is also a story about forgiveness. Suzanne forgives Conrad for his sins, and Julia learns to release her bitterness towards her father. After years of silence, she releases her pain and embraces the Lord upon his death. This story shows how close Jesus Christ really is. It show what it would be like to have him sit beside us while enjoying a baseball game. It made his miracles seem even more real than the ones we read about in the Bible(since it takes place during modern times) I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good Christian fiction read...
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Summary: An excellent "what if?" that makes you think
Review: There is alot of Christian fiction out there that is poorly written (ex: Left Behind), but I am happy to say that this book is not one of them. Bill Myers takes the incredible premise of what if Jesus had come today instead of 2000 years ago? The mazing thing about this book is that it really makes you think "what if?" What would he be like? Who would he talk to? Who would his followers be? How would I respond? Mr. Myers does a fine job of bringing some of Jesus' actions into a modern day framework. I loved how he told the modern day parable of the prodigal son at a party hosted by an Black gay pron producer who then becomes on of his disciples. It really hits the nail on the head for today's audience. His disciples also include former racists and other misfits. It makes you think how radical Jesus was in HIS day, travelling around with tax collectors and prostitutes. It also sends a clear message about our consumer Christian culture where we almost live in a "Christian ghetto" with Christian products galore marketed to us left and right. Is today's material culture, even among Christians something that God would approve of? All of these issues are brought up in this book. But do not think it is only intellectual, at a base level, the story is also entertaining. I enjoyed the characters, expecially Julia, and enjoyed watching the plot unfold on "our" side of the parallel universe. So if your would like to be entertained but also be made to think, and maybe even have yout faith grow a bit, this is a book that you should pick up.
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Summary: A Thought Provoking Twist
Review: The book, Eli, is based on the premise that in a modern-day world the New Testament of the Bible does not exist because Jesus has not come to earth yet. When he does arrive, it is present day earth and the world must decide if this person, Eli, is the Messiah that is spoken of in the Old Testament who will be sent to the world to die on the cross for man's sins. The modern day context of the Messiah arriving in the 20th century makes for a very interesting story which runs a close parallel to the New Testament's description of Jesus' life 2000 years ago. For example in the book, Eli is born in the laundry room of a Santa Monica, CA motel and is wrapped in towels because no rooms are available at the motel. As an adult, Eli performs miracles on a T.V. talk show and has "the last supper" at an italian restaurant with bread and wine. He is later betrayed for $30,000 (instead of the Old Testament's 30 pieces of silver). The story is very well written and makes one think about how it must have been as one of Jesus' followers 2000 years ago or in 1999. In both cases, the socitial situations which accompany one's beliefs in God seem the same in both worlds.
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