Book Review: Godology by Christian George

In our busy materialistic world, where God is often pushed to the background, if you are seeking a book that will restate your beliefs in Christian thinking, Godology is the book for you. It will reconfirm many of your ideas about the Almighty, and about your immortal soul as well. Its author feels that the twenty-first century is entering a new Age of Faith, leaving behind the Age of Reason.

In the earliest pages of Godology, author Christian George states that after googling “God” and finding 564,000,000 results, he “came to the conclusion that everyone has an opinion about God.” But to attempt any real study of the Deity, a mystery far too dense to penetrate, you need to examine his being by allowing God's written words in the Bible to light your way.

 

Godology begins this examination by having you consider God’s unity. Clearly, the New Testament tells that Jesus sent fort his apostles to baptize “in the name of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. If God is one, how could Jesus give such a confusing command?

The point is that Jesus knew exactly what he meant. He said “in the name of” because he meant precisely — one unified named person. He did not say “in the names of,” or even “in the beings of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.”

Legend claims that Saint Patrick had demonstrated the oneness of the Holy Trinity by comparing God’s being to a three-leafed clover. There are three separate clover leaves joined at the base in one single plant. If you hold each petal between your fingers, you know you are not holding three plants — just one.

Godology asks you to think of yourself standing in the center of three mirrors placed triangularly around you. Now you would see yourself exactly as you are while remaining one functioning human being in the center. Like God, you are one single mind composed of three clearly separate functions: will, memory, intellect.

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