Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)

by Eric Metaxas
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)

by Eric Metaxas

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Overview

Who doesn’t have questions about God? But where in the world can you go to get answers? 

Eric Metaxas has been there, so he gets it. Which is why he’s written this shockingly down-to-earth book on the big questions everyone asks (but not always out loud).

Totally conversational and sometimes flat-out hilarious, this book asks:

* How can a good God create a world that has evil and suffering?
* Is God anti-sex?
* Doesn’t science make God obsolete?
* What’s the real story on miracles?
* If God is everywhere, why go to church?
* Don’t we already have God within us?
* Isn’t God too busy running the universe to care about the details of my day?

These questions (and many more) get no-nonsense answers that don’t hide behind dull theological language. So get the lowdown (and more than a few laughs) on what are probably the most important questions anyone has.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307502926
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/21/2009
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of several books, including Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace, Miracles, Seven Men, Seven Women, and If You Can Keep It. He is the host of The Eric Metaxas Show, a nationally syndicated daily radio program. Metaxas is also the founder and host of Socrates in the City, the acclaimed series of conversations on "life, God, and other small topics." He is a senior fellow and lecturer at large at the King's College in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

1 Not Just a Figment of Someone's Imagination: Historical Proof for Jesus 13

2 A Messiah by Any Other Name: The Name of Jesus 25

3 The New Testament Proves the Old: Messianic Prophecies 31

4 Lunatic, Liar or Lord?: Jesus Proved Who He Is 47

5 He Said What?: Jesus Claimed to Be God 55

6 Clueless on the Heights: The Mount of Transfiguration 67

7 The First Christian Was a Jew?: The Jewishness of Christianity 73

8 A Rebel with a Cause: Jesus, the Leader to a New Kingdom 81

9 The Lost Years of Jesus, the Not-Always-Nice Guy: Jesus' Youth and Sarcasm 85

10 What Love Has to Do with It: Love Your Enemies 89

11 Swiped, Swooning or Sprung?: The Crucifixion and the Resurrection 97

12 The Whole Truth and Nothing But: Scriptures and How Jesus Communicated 123

13 Clearing the Air: God's Ways Are Not Our Ways 135

14 A Sin by Any Other Name Is Still a...: Jesus and the Problem of Sin 141

15 Making the Cut: Forgiveness 151

16 What Came Down Must Go Up and Out: The Ascension and the Great Commission 175

17 The Devil Made You Do It?: Satan, the Adversary of Jesus 183

l8 What Do I Have co Fear But...: The Second Coming 191

19 Is Neptune a Christian Planet?: What Being a Christian Means 203

Endnotes 217

About the Author 219

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