Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Love Wins, Rob Bell loses (according to whom? Public/"established traditional" opinion or God?)

I must confess i am in love with "Love Wins", Rob Bell's new controversial new book that deals with a variety of what he thinks are common perceptual misconceptions about what image the bible is portraying. Mainly these misconceptions come from, in his view, from our cultural language and perceptions.  I must confess again that I love the fact that he boldly says this in this book, but this is not his first time saying these things.  He says it in each of his other books, especially "Jesus wants to save Christians too".  I think he has hit the nail on the head.  Even if you disagree with his book you cannot ignore some of the things he says within the pages of this book.  I for one, am not entirely bought on his theological conclusion (if he positively does make one, this i am not entirely sure), but i am exceptionally pleased with his use of dialogue, cultural separateness (particularly american), debate, questioning, and looking at the entire picture and comparing what is being said and to whom.  Before i dare discuss anything about this book with anyone i ensure they have read it because most people get their information on the buzz on the web which has caused many people to talk about the book when they are the type of people who "think they can discuss and debate a book without reading it and just go off of the "i heard my grandma tell my mother that this book says this which she got from a one-sided website that was on wikipedia".  I will later blog some of my favorite discussions within the book and some of my favorite lines but the book is being borrowed by many people at the moment.  Nonetheless, if you have read the book and want to have a good ol'' intelligent lively loving discussion call/text/coffee me and we can discuss this all.

I will say one thing about his book.............Its difficult to be angry at him and say "why would you say such things blah blah blah"  "i sure hope your wrong"...........because if you do think/say these things, it may be time for you to take a step back and look at the way you live/think/and interact with others and the world around you because i think Jesus was a tad bit more like Rob Bell than you sir/mam.