{"id":8505,"date":"2017-09-01T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2017-08-21T03:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T08:58:50","slug":"top-shelf-book-making-sense-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Top Shelf Book: Making Sense of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book: Keller, Timothy. Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical<\/a>. Viking, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Point: Every single individual lives a life based on a complex tangle of \u201cexperiences, faith, reasoning, and intuition.\u201d Although the materialist or secularist can claim that belief in a God outside of space and time is unreasonable, that position is only tenable if the presupposition \u201cGod cannot exist\u201d is there prior.<\/p>\n

Path: In three main parts, Keller patiently and systematically guides the reader through the reasonability of faith in God, and not just any God, but the God of the Bible. Those parts are titled \u201cWhy does anyone need religion?\u201d; \u201cReligion is more than you think it is\u201d; and \u201cChristianity makes sense\u201d. The middle part is by far the largest and most comprehensive, dealing with meaning, satisfaction, freedom, self, identity, hope, morals, and justice. His purpose is not to give a definitive argument for God, but demonstrate that arguments against a God are unfounded and fail repeatedly.<\/p>\n

Sources: Keller does his normal deep digging and provides the reader with a lifetime of supplementary reading ranging from early church fathers to reformers, philosophers to militant atheists.<\/p>\n

Agreement:\u00a0After reading nearly every chapter I thought, \u201cI just had this conversation last week!\u201d This book both opened my eyes to a greater understanding of the problems and a greater appreciation to how Jesus solves them.<\/p>\n

Personal App: The greatest compliment one of my unbelieving friends can pay me is \u201cyou understand and state my belief better than I could!\u201d I feel as though this book helps me do this.<\/p>\n

Favorite Quote: There is no way to pick a favorite, but one which points to a strength of the book is this one: \u201cThe point is rather that science alone cannot serve as a guide for human society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stars: 5 out of 5<\/p>\n

It would be worth another read and I would recommend it to someone who:<\/p>\n