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Hans Deventer
20th October 2005, 02:11 PM (14:11)
I wrote this review in May 2003 for Amazon. It's still true today.

This book has been an eye opener to me. Its essential assumption is the question, how can we know God? And the answer: only in asmuch as He has revealed Himself. I always thought that Scriptures that wrote about God as changing His mind were an anthropomorphism, a human way of speaking about God. But where would we get the knowledge about God to decide if this were the case? We would need higher information, so to speak. But there is none.......
So reluctantly, at first, I had to admit that most of my views on God were actually based on what I thought God would be like. We know all the "omni's". Sanders challanges this idea and he does so forcefully.
To my surprise, this did not diminish God. On the contrary, in stead of being a director dictating His play, He actually uses the input of the actors (good and bad) and still proceeds towards His goal. Like using David's sin to have the Messiah come forth (ultimately) from Bathseba. An amazing God, a great God indeed. Reading this book I was moved to tears and I stand in awe before the Lord of Lords. My Lord and my God!

Barbara Moulton
21st October 2005, 08:26 AM (08:26)
This book, and Dr. Bratcher's paper on the Foreknowledge of God, changed my life. They helped me enter into a far more personal relationship with God. As a result, I have experienced great peace in my spiritual walk in the last eight years.

Larry Wilson
31st December 2006, 07:26 PM (19:26)
This book, and Dr. Bratcher's paper on the Foreknowledge of God, changed my life. They helped me enter into a far more personal relationship with God. As a result, I have experienced great peace in my spiritual walk in the last eight years.

Wow! I helped Noel pick this as one of her reading books for a course at Fuller, and we spent some time discussing it. I found it very compelling, and often was left saying, "Isn't this what I really believe anyway?" Having pretty much majored in philosophy, I see where so many of our concepts of God come from, and we can think ourselves into some pretty tight corners theologically.

The whole concept of "relational theism" really is where we are theologically, I think. We just haven't thought through the implications of that. How can the unmoved enter into covenant realtionship? How can the immutable be incarnated becoming "very man," or indwell the human heart of a believer?

God is love. We all know that love is the greatest risk of all!!