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This book was so good. I’ve known Jesus all my life and I’ve never been able to come to terms with some of the controversial questions the author’s dad proposes. I loved the kind, humble way Greg Boyd approached an answer to each of his dad’s questions. I loved most of all the way Boyd tackled the question “why do bad things happen to good people” and the concept of how having free will sometimes comes with being the victim of sins committed by the people who posses it. And of course God never wants that to happen, he just doesn’t want to brainwash us into only having one choice of loving and following Him.

I think it’s so interesting how his father fell ill and died not long after they finished the correspondence and publication. Of course God isn’t a God of punishment but it’s just such ironic timing that after he should accept Christ after the years of correspondence he couldn’t live the rest of his life fully functioning as a believer. Instead he because an invalid, bound to a wheelchair, losing his memory and his motor skills and speech.

On a different note, I would 100% recommend this book to someone who isn’t a believer or is a questioning Christian themselves, or a lifelong believer looking to wrestle with questions they’ve never asked in seriousness before. I’m considering buying it off of Amazon to give to my coworker, so we’ll see if that happens.