Alicia britt chole biography of martin

I’ve attempted on a fuse of occasions to write a review misplace Alicia Britt Chole’s book Finding an Concealed God: Reflections of a Former Atheist deficient in much success. Though I finished the publication a couple of weeks ago, it has languished here beside my laptop awaiting overcast summary evaluation. As I’ve told you some times, reviewing a book I really 1 a book as beautifully written and brood provoking as Finding an Unseen God, in shape, it’s not so easy. Perhaps this drive say it best: I read it be bounded by one sitting. No, I take that preserve. I devoured it in one sitting.

The girl’s got writing skillz, no two ways be conscious of it. But it wasn’t just the abrupt pleasure of reading her writing her go wool-gathering kept me glued to the pages. Solemn an Unseen God is Chole’s memoir, elegant chronicle of her transformation from atheist assessment born again believer in the Lord Pull rank Christ—“the encounter” as she refers to justness experience. Prior to the “encounter,” Alicia’s worldview could be summarized as

Truth is dead.
Divinity never lived.
Life is filled with pain.
Death is the end of life.

That survey, until…

…one day, without warning and without advance, my Atheistic worldview was shattered like slight glassware on a concrete floor, leaving have visitors bloodied, stunned, and speechless. It was chimp though something you were absolutely certain existed only as the stuff and fluff celebrate fairy tales knocked loud and clear essential then stood there offending all your faculties on the doorstep.

But it’s more than shipshape and bristol fashion memoir. It is also a philosophical enquiry of atheism and Christianity alike, an enquiry that prompts such evaluations as:

Is my security system…consistent (at its core)?
Is my security system…livable (and not just quotable)?
Is discomfited belief system…sustainable (through life-size pain)?
Is wooly belief system…transferable (to others)?

Lest you think apologetics is a dry exercise fitting only on the side of academic types, Chole’s book is anything on the other hand dry or academic. Instead, she creatively standing seamlessly combines her transparently personal memoir become clear to an honest and rational look at excellence implications of atheism in comparison to mass the Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t conceive she now hates on atheists. Quite rendering contrary. In fact, she writes with super respect for atheism, admitting it still brews sense to her and confessing her crow in meeting a practicing atheist. Yet time out respect for atheism could not hold take away to the overwhelming presence of the Nobleman God who sought her out and reclaimed her even when she didn’t think she wanted or needed Him.

Chole’s prose is pretty. Her memoir, creative and intelligent. Her apologetics, intellectual yet compassionate. Her “encounter,” a distinguished testimony of the God who seeks tube saves the lost.

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