The book continues to challenge my assumptions about God and the Trinity. It does so by showing a loving familial relationship between the godhead with laughter and fun and love. It does not do so in a way that is biblical but by showing something so different from how we think about God. The difficulty is that this makes it hard to weigh biblically, though I think the challenge is needed, the way we think about the trinity often lacks warmth and misses that idea of relationship.
It also challenges us on our independence from God, the fact that we often hold things back from God. That actually God is good and is loving and we should live dependent on him.
But there continue to be things that are a concern. Why does the Father have nail marks in hand and feet? The emphasis that the Father suffered at the cross too, the challenge as to what the cry "My God, my God who have you forsaken me." Young maintains that we misunderstand it and that God never left Jesus.
It is a book that challenges us and our perceptions but not by using the Bible but by painting a fictional story. I find myself so far torn about the book - I can see friends of mine reading it and longing for a relationship with God, but there are things here that worry me about the God they would long for relationship with.
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