Nick Peters gives a Review of Walking Through Darkness by Doug Groothuis. An excerpt:
Groothuis’s book is an honest look at what happens when a Christian philosopher who is an apologist has a wife who has been a companion in every way throughout his marriage start to go through dementia. What happens when she can’t read anymore or use a phone anymore or do basic things? What happens when you know the person is going to get worse and worse until they eventually die from the disease? What happens when you go from being a husband to being a caregiver?
The book is entirely honest, which is what makes it so hard. Groothuis says some of the things that many of us going through suffering think but hesitate to say. Consider his talk about Misotheism. This is the idea that one knows that God exists and holds many orthodox beliefs about Him, but hates Him. . . .
It’s hard to imagine that in all of this, he still goes out there wanting to defend Christianity. This is what it means to truly trust in Christ. It means that even when everything seems against you, you are still obeying. Lewis talked about a Christian who looked at the world that seemed to have no God there, who looks up to Heaven in response and asks why God is silent, and yet obeys anyway. These are the most dangerous Christians in the world to those on the side of evil because their Christianity is not controlled by momentary circumstances. . . .
Get this book and read it and then be prepared to enter into suffering. Do what you can to help your fellow man out.
I haven't read Grootuis' Book yet, but have added it to my reading list. Given Nick's review, I suggest you do so as well.
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Apparently, The Message is the only true version of the Bible. Not the King James Version, as is sometimes supposed. The question for you is: are you going to use God's Message or Satan's?
The sad thing is that their parody has significantly better arguments behind it than actual KJV-onlyists have behind their position.
Their "group holds to the full, plenary, inerrant inspiration of the Message. All other errant “translations” including the “original” Greek and Hebrew should be compared with the authoritative Message." Which seems about right to me.
