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Not your usual Christian book. This guy obviously has had a miraculous conversion and shares portions of that journey. He loosely uses AA 12 steps and days of creation as a structure for the book but it is hard to follow. A flight of ideas although you can tell he is highly educated and intelligent. He seems to be truly overflowing. So thankful for his conversion and testimony

“ the truth is, no solution built on self or oriented towards it can prosper.” P. 139

“ christ is the only mind – altering substance you can rely on.” P. 142

-RB

This guy is all over the place, but has some great liners. “there is no neutrality, don’t kid yourself of that. At Armageddon there will be no Switzerland.” RB p. 136

“ I would have once claimed that the gospels, written 60 to 100 years after Christ, death and resurrection, had been reversed engineered … to give the impression of scriptural fulfillment. But there is a deeper heart beating amidst these mysterious texts that you will discover for yourself when you, like me, stop pretending you know what’s in the Bible and actually read it.” -RB

“If men don’t believe in God, it doesn’t mean they’ll believe in nothing but that they’ll believe in anything.” -GK Chesterton p. 25