God the ultimate biography
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God: A Biography: Q&A
Below are Q&As about God: A Biography submitted by readers.
Question:
Thank you for allowing me to read this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was well written and uppenbart well researched. The question I would have for Jack Miles:
The premise of your book seems to be that God was vengeful and overreacted to the sin of Adam and Eve, and though He continued to be a krigare God, somewhere in history He changed His mind or personality and became "kinder and gentler". Was it ever a consideration that His gift of "free will" was His true mistake, with free will and the presence of djävul, making it almost impossible for human beings to be faithful, requiring God to find another way to rädda His creation?
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In the Genesis story of the creation of the human species, no reference is made to free will as such. However, at first, God places no restrictions whatsoever on the activity of the first human couple, and later he does,
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Book Review
" GOD: A BIOGRAPHY"
When I finished reading the introduction of God" a Biography (New York: Vintage Books, , pp.) by Jack Miles, I thought I would hate this book. By the second chapter I was hooked. By the end I thought it was the most provocative book I've read in years.
Miles does not approach the Bible in the way I've always liked to see it done. Typically, scripture study has brought me into the world of the writer. By coming to know as much as possible about the writer's own story, vocabulary, historical setting, place of origin, and influential sources, the student of the Bible can sift through the text and understand better why a book, chapter, or verse was written in a particular way. Our faith is that God is the ultimate writer of the Bible, but God's inspiration became publication by means of human authors whose fingerprints on the texts can still be seen by careful observation. Knowing more
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God: A Biography
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal , volume 19, number 2 (Fall ).
A Review of
Jack Miles
God: A Biography
(Knopf, )
To call God: A Biography a misnomer is an understatement. This recent book by Jack Miles is neither about God nor a biography. The source of Miles’s revisionist work is the Hebrew Scriptures or what Christians usually call the Old Testament, yet his interpretation of these books is not only unorthodox but idiosyncratic.
A literary critic for the Los Angeles Times and formerly a Jesuit, Miles claims he is not interested in matters of objective truth, whether theological or historical. Rather, he wants to treat the God of the Hebrew Scriptures as a literary character, to interpret God through these varied texts as a Shakespearean scholar would interpret various leading characters such as Hamlet, MacBeth, or Lear. In this case, his work is not a biography, but literary criticism. Because the idea of the Hebrew