Getting God Wrong
eBook - ePub

Getting God Wrong

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Getting God Wrong

About this book

Reading a tone of voice into printed words, especially the personal experience of an email or text, can disconnect two people, even friends. Having one friend reinterpret the way another "heard" the words with their own tone of voice may lead them into discovering how Jesus seems to hear God differently, even though he read the same Bible. In Getting God Wrong, the reader is invited into a conversation on how they taught themselves to misunderstand the One who loves them best. "Instructions" is the same word that gets translated "commandments," and "guidance" is the same word sometimes translated "law." This shift of translations can affect one's emotional engagement with the ideas. People have told themselves for centuries that God marched the people of Israel out of four hundred years of slavery, out into the desert, to tell them, "Now you'll be my slaves and live under my commandments!" What if God used a different tone of voice, and not the one people usually "hear" as they read? Getting God Wrong suggests that God wants people to hear his heart as clearly as Jesus lived it out in front of them. Jesus is God's tone of voice.

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Information

Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781666764789
9781666764925
eBook ISBN
9781666764932
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: I Used to Think the Most Important Thing to God Was Obedience
  5. Chapter 2: When’s a Command NOT a Command?
  6. Chapter 3: The Point Was Making Wise Choices That Produce Life
  7. Chapter 4: Hearing
  8. Chapter 5: onsidering the Worth of the Instructions
  9. Chapter 6: Wisdom is Not Control And, Also, Not Seeking Control
  10. Chapter 7: But Isn’t God Mad at Us Sinners?
  11. Chapter 8: Where Everything Is in Place
  12. Chapter 9: The Deeper Wisdom
  13. Chapter 10: How Should We Then Live?
  14. Chapter 11: Making the Most of It
  15. Chapter 12: Clay in the Potter’s Hands
  16. Chapter 13: Be Mature As Your Father Is Mature
  17. Chapter 14: Becoming Friends
  18. Epilogue: Reality
  19. Bibliography

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