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359 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
In the Bible God creates and God rests, He suffers and grieves, feels sadness and remorse, He walks, sees, speaks, looks, hears, remembers, smells, He loves and envies, rejoices and rages, punishes and forgives; He has eyes and ears and strong hands in which He holds the sceptre and the enemy-slaying sword… God really is like that and really does feel all these things, for our rage and joy, our remorse and sadness, our attitude towards the true and the false are also created in the image and likeness of His rage and joy, His sorrow and love.
‘Such a terrible thing – to reject your past, to write off all, or almost all, your life. Everything that was in it is declared evil and false, torn out by the roots, and no one can emerge from this process with their health intact. Yes, the thrill of a newly discovered truth may suppress the past, may allow it to be forgotten, but behind you everything is empty and dead. And there’s something else: being born from an idea rather than a mother’s womb makes everything artificial and unnatural, and the world created within and around themselves by those who’ve rewritten their life, who’ve managed to purify themselves and be reborn, is just as artificial.’