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Book Plunge: Everyday Glory

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  • Book Plunge: Everyday Glory

    Do you see God everywhere around you?

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    What do I think of Gerald McDermott's book published by Baker Academic? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    What does the world tell us about God? Quite a lot actually. In this book, Gerald McDermott seeks to open our eyes up to the realities that are all around us. We have lived in a world long enough where we take the world around us for granted and don't really consider the revelation of God that is there.

    As much as I am Protestant, this is also our problem. We, and I think rightly, say that Scripture is the final authority, but too often we make it the only authority. Thus, why do we need to look at the rest of the world to learn something about God? Why study natural theology at all?

    McDermott urges us to avoid this way of thinking. The world is not an accident. God made it the way that He did for a reason. If we want to truly learn about God, we can learn about Him from the things He has made and ask why He has made things the way that He has.

    To be fair, He does have a chapter on the Bible itself, but He encourages us to look for Christ everywhere in the Bible. Reading a chapter like this can help you to approach the Bible with new eyes.

    From there, McDermott takes us to many other areas of the world around us. What can we learn from science? In this chapter, you'll probably find many of the things you find in books that talk about scientific apologetics. Still, those who like that will be helped.

    Animals are another aspect that are covered in the book. In this chapter, McDermott focuses on two specific animals. Those would be birds and dogs. Both of these are talked about in Scripture, and it's interesting that dogs are talked about in a negative light.

    Sexuality is another aspect that is discussed. What is it about sex that has captured our wonder so much? As I said on a recent podcast I did, we live in a world where we have all manner of new technologies and such to keep us entertained. What still holds our fascination? What God made back in the very beginning. Nothing can still compete with sex.

    Sports are also included. Sports are a non-necessary part of reality and they are creations by us, but yet they also come with a number of rules and teach us a number of values. I found myself wondering in this chapter if the same could apply to video games, which I think it could, or even movies and things like that.

    There's also a section on other religions. It would be a mistake to think they get everything wrong. What can we learn from other religions? How are they similar? How are they different?

    This isn't every chapter, but it is some of them. There's also an appendix dealing with the views of Barth and Luther on natural theology. McDermott makes a fine defense for his position.

    I think this is a very helpful book to read. Reading this can help you look at Scripture and the rest of the world differently. It's a way of analyzing reality to see the fingerprints of the creator in everything.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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    On your recommendation Nick I went right out and bought the Kindle edition of this book and am reading it now. So far a good read.
    3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures --1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (borrowed with gratitude from 37818's sig)

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      Pay no attention to the heating of the oven here either! Just heating things up because it's um....cold That's it!

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