If
God is Love
Rediscovering
Grace in an Ungracious World.
By
Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
Continuing
on where their book—If Grace is True—left off,
authors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland have written If God is
Love.
In
this book, the authors, who are Quaker, admit they do not believe
in Satan or hell.
The
author maintains: "I believe God will accomplish the salvation
of every person, in this life or the next, no matter how long we
resist. If Satan does exist, he will one day repent, be forgiven,
and take his proper place in the divine order. It will merely be
another tool in God's work to purify and redeem." He continues:
"Years ago, I abandoned the concepts of Satan and hell as unsophisticated.
Now I reject them for a far more important reason; they represent
a way of understanding God I no longer find credible."
He
proposes that if man can understand the universal love of God, it
will change how we live.
Unfortunately,
this is no new truth, but a variation on the theme that the Bible
is not enough. If God is Love repeats the arguments set
forth in If Grace is True and once again denies the foundational
truths of scripture—that men cannot pull themselves up by
their spiritual bootstraps or simply turn over a new leaf.
Though
there is a sprinkling of truth discernible among the authors' experiences,'
Christians will see this as another religious argument that falls
short of acceptable, sound doctrine—and one more attempt to
distract us from the narrow way.
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The
Book |
HarperCollins
/ San Francisco |
2004 |
Paperback |
0-06-057841-6 |
Inspirational Non-fiction |
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NOTE:
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The
Reviewer |
Nancy Williams |
Reviewed
2005 |
NOTE:
Reviewer, Nancy Williams is the author of the inspirational
romances "Coming Home to Mercy Street," "In
the Company of Angels," "In The Shadow of the Cherubim."
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