Making it work to prove a point
It’s not a bad read and it flows well, but is that the point or the purpose of scripture. I must be honest I could not shake the uneasiness that this is written from a place of bitterness, self-righteousness and offence. I kept sensing this is a book written by a man who wants to prove something. Interesting approach rewriting, adding, subtracting and manipulating the Apostles testimonies to suit a desired narrative implying they were not guided and inspired by Holy Spirit, but could be better done by a man. Did the Holy Spirit get these parts of scripture wrong by leaving them incomplete, out of order and unanointed? I wondered why God didn’t think to give us the a full, complete and sensible gospel from the beginning. If God was concerned the Gospel was so in error, how come He waited this long to anointed ‘another’ super prophet saviour to correct these scriptures, fix the church and enlighten everyone with their spectacular intellect. Or is it better to just see this as an intellectual attempt to re-package what God inspired in another way to appeal to curious minds, gain approval of ‘new’ revelations and set at ease lawless attitudes in offended hard hearts.
As I stated, it reads well and looks very nice, but something about the spirit behind it made me very uncomfortable reading it.