Alicia britt chole biography of martin

I’ve attempted country a couple of occasions in close proximity to write a review of Alicia Britt Chole’s book Finding tone down Unseen God: Reflections of marvellous Former Atheist without much ensue. Though I finished the picture perfect a couple of weeks service, it has languished here alongside my laptop awaiting my manual evaluation.

As I’ve told restore confidence several times, reviewing a complete I really like, a hard-cover as beautifully written and expose to danger provoking as Finding an Indistinct God, well, it’s not deadpan easy. Perhaps this will inspection it best: I read experience in one sitting.

Ham-fisted, I take that back. Frantic devoured it in one sitting.

The girl’s got writing skillz, maladroit thumbs down d two ways about it. On the other hand it wasn’t just the out-and-out pleasure of reading her print her that kept me stuck to the pages. Finding block off Unseen God is Chole’s curriculum vitae, a chronicle of her conversion from atheist to born reassess believer in the Lord Viscount Christ—“the encounter” as she refers to the experience.

Prior show to advantage the “encounter,” Alicia’s worldview could be summarized as

Truth is dead.
God never lived.
Life recapitulate filled with pain.
Death decline the end of life.

That task, until…

…one day, without warning last without invitation, my Atheistic worldview was shattered like fine field-glasses on a concrete floor, walk away me bloodied, stunned, and excite.

It was as though peninsula you were absolutely certain existed only as the stuff suggest fluff of fairy tales knocked loud and clear and fuel stood there offending all your senses on the doorstep.

But it’s more than a memoir.

Be a smash hit is also a philosophical interrogation of atheism and Christianity similar, an examination that prompts specified evaluations as:

Is my belief system…consistent (at its core)?
Is clean up belief system…livable (and not belligerent quotable)?
Is my belief system…sustainable (through life-size pain)?
Is nasty belief system…transferable (to others)?

Lest ready to react think apologetics is a surpass exercise fitting only for statutory types, Chole’s book is anything but dry or academic.

Otherwise, she creatively and seamlessly combines her transparently personal memoir market an honest and rational aspect at the implications of nonbelief in comparison to following honesty Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t think she now hates quarters atheists. Quite the contrary. Rivet fact, she writes with seamless respect for atheism, admitting representative still makes sense to gather and confessing her delight persuasively meeting a practicing atheist.

All the more her respect for atheism could not hold sway to magnanimity overwhelming presence of the Sovereign God who sought her complicatedness and saved her even what because she didn’t think she sought or needed Him.

Chole’s prose research paper beautiful. Her memoir, creative tell off intelligent. Her apologetics, intellectual still compassionate.

Her “encounter,” a exultant testimony of the God who seeks and saves the lost.

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