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Eternal Life: A New Vision

By: John Shelby Spong
Narrated by: John Morgan
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 Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life. Bible Study Bibles & Bible Study Christianity Religious Studies
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First of all the author has clearly done a huge amount of research and it is written well.
The problemm comes when he (previously a Bishop) gets theological, scientific and philosophical facts wrong, sometimes slightly and sometimes some great whoppers.
Atheists will lap this all up because it is stated so matter of factly however, all of it is "in his opinion" is he states several times and his arrogance of his "new self" starts shining through with exclamations such as "we almost know everything there is to know (reference to scientific knowledge)".
It's all very one sided and honestly just starts reading either as propoganda for atheism or the lamentations of an old man who has swallowed the bitter pill of misunderstanding, possibly belief, and has been found wanting.

He then goes on to concluding that God is not an outward deity of which to look for but for looking within oneself; something that has been readily practiced and encouraged for millenia through meditation and prayer (what did he think prayer was for).

This is a story of a sad old man lamenting on his fundamentalist and conformative beginnings to come to a conclusion that most of us find in our thirties. Yes, God is obviously not a person in the sky - no need to go on about it for 6 hours of the audio book.

Constrained view on religion and perception of God

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