Ever since I first read this book I have listed it as my favorite book besides the Bible. As I recently decided to reread the book, I have discovered that it is still as useful as the first time I read it.
I will admit that it didn't have the same specialness as the first time I encountered some of the ideas in it. However, it brought me back to a number of ideas about God that are too easy to forget here in America.
1. God desires for me to know him
2. God is holy
3. God is wrathful
4. God saved me by representative-substitutionary atonement as a propitiation for my sins
If I want to know God, I must deal with the fact that he is holy and I am not. I must accept that his wrath is real and will be demonstrated on me if I die in a state of sin. However, God sent his son as payment of my debt and as a propitiation for my sin, so that I might live a new life.
Powerful stuff.
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