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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News | Brian Zahnd
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God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.
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As I‘ve been on my own journey of expelling all the heresy from my faith, I‘ve come to similar conclusions. Admittedly, I‘m not a Biblical scholar, so it‘s nice to read something that lays the historical basis. I can‘t ever go back. As Christianity stands today, I am not Christian. But this book reminded me that you can actually follow Christ, that is scandalous and requires a rejection of American Christianity. That‘s where I am.

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Enjoyed the audiobook. This book is 0part of my quest to solidify what I believe about God and the Bible instead of just blinding believing what I was taught my whole life.