My Gripe with God / Knight, George R / (HB/1990-1990/B+/USED)

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Can God be trusted? That is the most important question in the universe. After all, look at the mess He allows to go on year after year. He has permitted thousands of years of murder, rape, and sins of every sort. On person dying for another doesn't seem to be much of a solution. Satan from the time of Cain has challenged the validity of substitutionary sacrifice, claiming that God is arbitrary and that there is no justice in having the Best of men die so that a pack of criminals and rebels can get what they don't deserve. Neither grace nor forgiveness seem to be completely moral. How can God justify some people and destroy others eternally?

"Don't question God," some people say. But those who care enough to ask tough questions and search for answers are sometimes granted a special privilege. They become the first to see into the deeper reaches of His love and wisdom.

That is the reward of readers who open this book with the silent question "Can God be trusted?" Together with George Knight they discover evidence that proves God's justice not only to us but to every being in the universe.

Speaking of the plan of redemption, Ellen White said, "Through the eternal ages new truth will continually unfold to the wondering and delighted mind." But why wait to get started? Here's a chance to behold the magnificent justice and love of God as He deals with the greatest problem in the universe. The problem of sin.

CONTENTS 

A Word to the Reader

1. My Gripe With God
--An Upsetting Bible Story
--More Perturbing Stories
--What Kind of God Would Create Our Kind of World?
--Distrust of God Is Central to Scripture
--God's Solution Seems to Play Into the Devil's Hands
--God Is in Trouble
--A Solution That Even God Can't Explain

2. God's Gripe With Me
--Fig Leaves and Swimming Pools
--Alienation and Estrangement
--Slavery at Its Worst
--A More Powerful Bondage Than Sin
--The Wrath of God
--Perspective

3. The Bible's Most Disgusting Teaching
--The Old Testament Foundation
--The Crucified God
--The Problem of the Innocent Suffering for the Guilty
--Why Couldn't God Forgive Without the Death of Jesus on the Cross?
--The Unlovable Cross
--Perspective

4. God in Search of Rebels
--Propitiation
--Redemption
--Justification
--Reconciliation
--Perspective

5. Jesus' Real Temptation and the "Godforsakenness" of the Cross
--Christ's Self-emptying
--Overcoming Where Adam Failed
--The Death of Temptation
--It Is Finished
--But It Is Obviously Not Finished

6. The Universe's Gripe With God and the Reason for the Millennium
--The Climax of History and the World's Longest Battle
--The Judgment "on" God
--The Verdict "for" God
--It Is Really Finished

7. Radical Faith's Response to the Cross
--Radical Faith
--The Death of a "Rebel" and the Birth of a "Saint"
--The Cross and Daily Living
--The Cross and the Life of the Church
--The Cross and Personal Tragedy

A Final Word to the Reader
End Notes
Index of Names and Topics
Index of Biblical References

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