By Mike Edwards
I wrote here 10 books that help changed my view of God for the better than what I had been taught at an earlier age. Intuitively, is God worth believing if not perfectly loving? Humans can only understand such love according to what perfect human love is like. See here. I don’t always know what exactly such love is, but I would disregard biblical interpretations that don’t seemingly lead to loving your neighbor more according to your moral intuitions and understandings of perfection.
What inspired this Post is lately I have been cleaning out my book shelves. I am getting older and eventually all these books got to be moved somewhere. I probably had over a thousand books to begin with. I think I got it down to 100 books. I kept those that are favorites authors or those that I may read again. I am convinced one way to pursue truth is reading the ideas of others.
To add to my original list of 10 books is 5 more that I just didn’t want to leave out. Some are dated but worth your consideration. I think I am done:
- Chris Holtzen – The God Who Trusts: A Relational Theology of Divine. God is more loving humanly speaking than biblical folks give credit for. If God can be angry, God can be sad. God feels the same pain I do when my children are suffering. One can only get as close to God as their image of God allows.
- Clark Pinnock &Robert Brow – Unbounded Love. This book early on confirmed what my gut had been telling me for years about the true nature of God.
- Clark Pinnock’s – A Wideness in God’s Mercy. I happily was empowered to imagine that God may eventually saved all people either here on earth in the life to come.
- Mickelson – Women, Authority, and the Bible. One of the first books I read on biblical gender roles that confirmed my intuitive views on men and women roles at home and in the church. So many books on the subject followed.
- Talbott – The Inescapable Love Of God. Talbott argues Western theological tradition has managed to twist the New Testament message of love, forgiveness, and hope into a message of fear and guilt.
Books That May Change Your View Of God!
Mike Edwards has been writing for Done with Religion for some time and has been a great addition to the site. He couldn’t find enough people to discuss God openly so he started blogging years ago. Mike also has his own site where he writes that can be found at What God May Really Be Like He can be contacted by email at: medwar2@gmail.com
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