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Summary: Family Letters
Review: This author is certainly intelligent and scholary, and I enjoyed the manner in which the book was written as an endearing dialogue between father and son. Many answers given by the author were concise and suitable; however, the author's open view of God is not the biblical view of God. For this reason alone, I hesitate to recommend this book knowing that naive readers may pick up on his unorthodox descriptions of the God of Christianity. If someone is looking for solid Christian apologetics, I would recommend Josh McDowell over this particular author.
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Summary: Very well written overview of Christianity....
Review: This is a re-written review, since in general the review I had written earlier seems to have not been helpful to much of anyone...The first thing that I should say is that this book is clearly not for everyone, because of some of Greg's unique views that he has placed into the book. For those who are not able to seperate out different aspects of any given teacher's teaching, or who actually are convinced that there are teachers/authors, etc., who never get anything wrong (see other reviews) and therefore think that since Greg says some things that are not mainstream he must be all wrong, do not buy this book: you won't like it. However, if you are interested in apologetics as a dialouge, and understand that even the brightest apologist doesn't know everything, give this book a whirl and see what you think. Greg and his father engage in a very lengthy dialouge throughout the book about Christianity; in the end, Greg's dad does become a Christian because of the dialouge. The book is not written to be scholarly; Greg makes this clear right in the beginning of the book: it's designed to be a genuine conversation, and indeed it is. A further comment is in store about some of Greg's controversial viewpoints: if you see theology as a given 'set' of information designed to be passed from generation to generation, a position which might be labeled as "fundamentalist" in some circles, do NOT buy this book. For those of us who believe that God is using each generation of the Body of Christ to further our understanding of his Word, even if that means paradigm shifts and other such things, then DO buy this book. Greg is an excellent Christian minister who God has used to reach some very unreachable people, and it's often through the fact that he's willing to be a real person: not like many of the people who have negatively reviewed this book from their own respective 'ivory towers' of theology. The book shows how God (yes, the God of the bible, even though most people who attack Greg for his presuppositions don't realize the depth of their own presuppositions) really is in dynamic relationship with his creation: us. Praise God for Greg, and for this book, even though no one will agree with every word of it. Having talked with Greg personally, I can clearly sense the Spirit of God working through his life.
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Summary: Awesome Apologetics book
Review: So many books on apologetics are so... clinical, or like a text book. The fluid style and real life answers make it extremely readable (hard to put down), and a great gift for someone who might be thinking about investigating christianity.
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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: This book is inspiring. I thought it was one of the best books I have ever read in my life. It cleared up so many questions for me that I had. It is awesome and i would recomend it to anyone have doubts.
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Summary: No deterministic nonsense: a great book to give away!!
Review: For years I have looked for a book that could stand up on its own in the hands of a skeptic. This is because the run of the mill book is often deterministic, and in the end doesn't distinguish between God and the Devil. The question of evil is so important for a skeptic, who always wants to ask "Did God plan concentration camps?". Boyd gives a good answer, without making the Devil into God's dirty works department. As a church planter and evangelist I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone looking for the right literature. Read it first, and give it to your Dad. I did!
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Summary: Convincing only to Christians
Review: I am an athiest. I used to be an agnostic, and "technically" I still am. There is no way to disprove the existence of God, after all. Then again, the lack of existence of anything is unprovable. You cannot construct an airtight argument disproving the existence of Santa Claus, for example. So for all practical purpose, I'm athiest. Boyd has some interesting philosophical views. The book in an interesting read. However, as with all Christian arguments for the existence of God, they are not conclusive. In order to believe in them, you have to already have a certain amount of desire to believe in them. If you are skeptical, nothing in this book will convince you that there is a god. Christians will often argue that a skeptical heart is simply a heart that is hardened against the Holy Spirit, one that rejects facts they'd otherwise accept. I reject this. Facts are facts and science-grade proofs are ironclad. They require no willingness to believe. The power of their proof is sufficient. There are no such proofs in this book. The first half of the book is better than the last part. In the last part, Boyd tackles many of the difficult questions, such as why is an all-good God portrayed as such a violent God, and why is God so unfair that souls are condemned to infinite punishment for finite crimes. Here, Boyd is at his weakest. His answers amount to shrugs and apologies that he does not have the answers, but nevertheless assures his father that he has enough other evidence that these hard issues do not shake his faith. I suspect Christians will find the book quite a bit more sensible than I did. It is probably useful to help remove the doubts of someone already halfway to God in his heart. For myself, I found not one single airtight argument for the existence of God. I give it 2 stars purely for the fact that it is interesting to read, and has some of Boyd's "warfare worldview" theodicy in it. Even if you're an athiest, and you don't know of this philosophical view concerning an all-good God and the presence of horrendous evil, you should familiarize yourself with it. This book will give you an introduction to that philosophy. Furthermore, Boyd only misunderstands or misrepresents one or two minor scientific elements. Most apologies have so little understanding of science that they make me laugh. I don't give it any higher stars because, like all Christian apologetics books, it cannot push its "evidence" to its desired conclusion, making it ultimately a failure of a book.
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Summary: An incredibly helpful book
Review: I highly recommend this book for both believers and nonbelievers. Dr. Boyd successfully provides rational answers to some of the most difficult questions regarding Christianity. Regardless of your present beliefs, I think you'll find that your feelings on the subject will forever be viewed in a new light.
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Summary: A fun and worth-while read
Review: Dr. Boyd has been very generous to let us gaze upon such a life changing event using this book as the window. It is so uplifting to see a life long unbeliever and skeptic become transformed and renewed accepting Christ as his savior.
With this in mind I was shocked to find many harsh reviews of Boyd's beleifs and convictions on discrepencies concerning God's attributes. Dr. Boyd loves God, and he loves Jesus, and thanks to him, and to my delight, his father does too. Indeed, Boyd's open view of God is a bit of a rationalization, but to call this man a heretic is self defeating. We all have our misconceptions, and our faults. We all have our strongholds our problems with unbelief. Not one of us can claim to love Jesus more than another nor should we try. One reviewer expressed a concern that if one is converted on flawed theology "is he really saved?" Lets let Jesus be the judge of their hearts and take this time to rejoice in the fact that this book is at least planting seeds and providing a path for many to find their personal relationship with Jesus our Savior.
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Summary: Great for the firm believer or the skeptic
Review: I bought this book because my best friend is atheist and i needed some help in my conversation with him. Often I cant answer his questions but this book had some of his same questions in it. It was perfect.
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Summary: Answers to questions we all ask.
Review: If you are searching for answers to life's most difficult questions, this book is for you. It is well written, and explains the true 'Christian' faith in thought provoking detail, from a point of view that we all have, one of a skeptic.
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