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such a heavy topic, I took my time reading it and read books between chapters, I wish I had read this one before all the others I read Lee Strobel aside to help me answer questions.
There were a couple questions he asked within chapters with answers I felt could satisfy me, but not someone trying to poke holes in what I believe, however I do feel this book answered better than anything I've read.
It was simple and to the point and I highly recommend this as a starting point to everyone.
He spoke briefly at my church, which is where I picked this book, and I know I will reference it and refer back to it again and again.
l I started reading it under the impression that it could help me a Hindu in understanding the border aspects of Christianity.
Mark Mittelberg, however provides the narrowest possible solutions to theforemost questions that Christians often ask about their own religion.
He tries to teach fellow Christians how straitjacketed one could possibly be and glosses over many questions, especially those concerning evil, hell and freedom from miseries.
In the end the book fails to a satisfactorily address almost all the questions,

In his conservative quest Mark doesn't forget take a few jibes at other religions, especially Hinduism, his favorite stoning pillar.
He admits religions like Hinduism speaks a few good things, but not the correct things, For example, Hinduism doesn't admit that 'Christ is the only way' and other sundry propositions, He has difficulty with an impersonal Hindu God or god for Mark, or the fact that all merge back to that God and that encompass both good and evil.


The Hindu God should have been squashed like a fly centuries ago and supplanted with that of Mark.
In the book Mark claims this is in fact happening, albeit some six centuries late, He chooses to single out the tiny Hindu country of Nepal as the epitome of religious illtreatment of God's people, a place where a grand success according to him is becoming visible.
Among the almostbillion Hindus worldwide, he exhibits at least one specimen who actually grasped the 'truth that will set him free', a former Hindu priest who 'fed the idols'.


To be true, this former priest could be called anything, but an Hindu, for Hindus do not worship idols.
Hindus do worship the Deity in a temple or at home, and this Deity is believed to be the incarnation of the Supreme Person, just as Jehovah incarnated in many forms on earth as a traveler, a fighter and also in the form of Jesus.
This could be construed as a fantasy, but then all religions have similar constructs, The Hindu God is not impersonal as clamied by Mark, Hinduism does not teach dissolution of living beings back into an impersonal God,

When Mark speaks of earthly life and evil, he mentions that hardships are occasional and extremely rare, in our long holiday amidst peace, happiness and plenty.
Mark forgets that this come from the plunder his ancestors in Europe had let loose on an unsuspecting world, accompanied with sword, fire and the name of God on lips.
This benevolent act was inaugurated in India, the land of Hindu God, but soon fanned out to rest of the world, including in the land Mark's predecessors claimed for themselves.


The problem of evil, as that of the proof of

existence of God, consumes both the religious and non religious alike.
Though the 'problem of pain and suffering does present challenges to the Christian faith' Mark takes comfort that 'small problems of biblical belief are far easier to live with than the big problems of any of these denials'.
He has either misunderstood Hinduism or is deliberately lying, when he states that the impersonal God 'as is taught by these pantheistic world views' encompasses good and the evil.


Neither Hindu God is impersonal, nor do living beings 'join with the very thing that contain evil within itself'.
Hinduism do not deify evil, One can only wonder whether it is so in Christianity, where Lucifer though fallen, of late is the controller of all evil.
Mark admits it was God who 'created the potential for evil' though not evil itself, Ultimately, he gives up saying 'it's better to grapple with the problem of evil than to deny it through atheism or deify it through Eastern pantheistic philosophies'.


Mark does not seem to actually comprehend the biblical extortions such as 'here on earth you have many trails and sorrows' and that '.
. . sickness and sin are illusions, . . '. The bible further goes on urge intelligent people to awake from 'this mortal dream, or illusion, that will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality'.
On the contrary he seems to believe that we are not 'temporary residents and foreigners' and we should forget the 'pervasive meaninglessness in this earthly life'.
No wonder he is out of sync with Hindu scriptures which also states that 'the non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons' and therefore asks us to 'Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me.
I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions, Do not fear'.

Mark rightly points out that 'almost all of Jesus' companions lived lives of deprivation and suffering and died martyrs' deaths', but fails to explain why the present day church elders are noblemen, who live in palaces, some of them accomplished sexual perverts.
They spent time in engaging in power politics, of the sort that put best of the politicians to shame.
They spent endless hours discussing why Turkey should be kept outside European Union and other pedantic topics, The rest of their fruitful time is devoted to running schools, hospitals, banks and governments, No wonder church attendance dwindling in the land from which missionaries went forth, Rightly the bible calls them 'halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, . . '

Just as he refers to 'The Da Vinci code' in a few places, and fails to touch open the central theme Mary Magdalene a constant companion of Jesus, who was condemned to be a prostitute by the church for centuries, and whom Mark fleetingly refers to as 'a formerly demon possessed woman', Mark fails to drill down to the essence ofquestions.
Therefore, he spits venom on alternate world views and ends up with a flawed defense of Christianity, Never again. Ever.
Mittelberg is a good writer and has a voice I probably wouldn't mind listening to in real life.
He speaks in a respectful manner and approaches each subject/question in his book with a certain amount of tact.


But there are just some things I can't be forgiving of, Mainly, my issues are with the homosexuality and abortion chapters, In one fell swoop, Mittelberg tells the readers that homosexuality is a sin, uses examples from the bible to do so, and then tells us that women shouldn't choose to have an abortion because, somehow, it's the equivalent of the holocaust.


I am not making this up, You can't make that kind of bullcrap up, even if you tried,

I picked this book up for free from amazon, out of curiousity, I only restrained from throwing it across the room because I love my iPod more than I hate this book.


If you want to, and are also curious, check it out, Otherwise, leave me out of it, .