This Book Becomes More Valuable as the Years Go By

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	• Foundations of the Christian Faith (Master Reference Collection) James Montgomery Boice InterVarsity Press, 1986 - 740 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very Readable, Interesting, and Thorough

If you want to read any book about Christianity (besides the Bible), this is the place to start. Boice is an unusually clear writer; he writes so that the average human can understand him but his thinking is deep enough that most pastors would appreciate his insight. I've read most of CS Lewis' work, and like this book better than Lewis, and I like Lewis! The book is also well indexed, so that it is easy to use it as a reference.

Perfect reference for new Christians

I have gone to church all of my life and I have always considered myself a Christian. However, I did not truly know what I believed or why I believed it. I began to study the Bible in order to know for myself true Christianity apart from what is often called "Christianity" today. After a study of several books of the Bible, I have found that each book often covers a broad range of subjects and doctrines. This book, however, provides a horizontal view by taking one subject or doctrine and showing how it is consistently handled in different books of the Bible. It has helped me tie the books of the Bible together subject-by-subject and realize that although the Bible was written by over 30 authors over hundreds of years, there is a divine consistency in its message. This is a great book for any Christian or non-Christian who wants to find out what Christians believe and why they believe it.

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Systematic, Use Inerrant Bible

Boice describes how, and in what way scripture talks to us. That man who truly seeks out to know God's truth is to be lead by the Holy Spirit while studying God's word. Boice does not argue for a simple understanding of the text or to read individual verses without a further study of the context of the whole scripture. Those who accept the Bible as true should make a comprehensive study of the whole bible. Each book book of the Bible should be studied as as a whole, studied comprehensively, and in context. Boice gives very specific, demanding, recommendations how to go about this.

Foundations of the Christian Faith written by James Montgomery Boice was written as Four books. The Four sections of this book are the Sovereign God, God the Redeemer, Awakening to God, and 'God and History'.The teachings, definition of words, and phrases are consistent with traditional Orthodox Christian theology and teachings. One need not be a biblical scholar to understand this very comprehensive work about who God is and how he interacts with what He has created.

God's plan for salvation begins in eternal past, continues today, into eternal future. When God created the universe including the earth- He already had a plan to save man from the consequences of his behavior and thought. to comprehend and accept this fact, one must understand God to be sovereign. That God is ultimately in charge, and that any-one's behavior could alter or deter God's will from being accomplished.That God's glory is revealed through His interaction with the created which includes the rebellious thought and deeds of man. God's glory is revealed through His wrath towards the unrepentant and mercy towards those who repent.

God's nature is revealed through his creation. The nature of God is revealed to man by what he can perceive by what God has created and works throughout the Universe. God further reveals Himself through the written word known as the Bible. Man because he rebels against God's authority, denies what is evident through nature and scripture. So man comes up with his own theories about the world and his own existence. The Bible is therefore doubted and not accepted as ultimate truth. Boice does not make any arguments casting doubt on scripture. This theology is presented to make clearer to the reader what the bible states and teaches.

God is sovereign and all knowing. God cannot be mistaken what is and/or what is to come to past. God chose what is written in the bible, what the bible is to be consisted of, and the hand from whom the is written from.The Bible is true and should be accepted as God's expression of His will towards man. The Bible therefore God should be understood based upon this fact.

God Is Immutable: God's character does not change. His Moral Character does not change nor does His ability to effect His creation. God cannot become a better or more perfect being. God will not become less then what he is. His perfection will never become less perfect.His capacity or ability never increases or decreases. God is not like man. Man for a time grows in strength and knowledge. Man's health declines; Man forgets things. Man thoughts change base on new information, new situations, or a new argument. Gods thoughts do not change because he knows all.

Creation, providence, revelation, and redemption. God created the heavens and the earth. Nothing that is was not first created by God. God is ultimately in control of all His creation. This includes every living soul. God has chosen to reveal His character and to truth to part of His creation. Redemption ultimately brings glory to God. It is also about the salvation to the repentant and damnation to those who refuse. God's eternal plan to bring a remnant to heaven. Part of this eternal plan is the end of the earth and Universe as we humans know it. Boice makes excellent arguments to how all this and the rest the Bible come together.

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For Boice's Book? The usual excellence

Having been his parishioner, Jim was a fantastic preacher and pastor at Tenth Presbyterian, Philadelpia. This work, like the others, is his usual: more excellence. Jim was educated at Harvard. We regret to announce that he attended Princeton Seminary, but he emerged without the vacuity of Dark Ages presuppositions. The contribution of this book, strategically, is that Jim puts biblical inerrancy, inspiration, and authority as the preliminary chapter (like Lewis Sperry Chafer's and Wayne Grudem's respective systematics). Those words will invoke choking for those in the backwoods of the liberal reservation. Oh well, get over it liberals. Liberal OT and NT criticism is a veritable mess. Biblical vandalism it is. The book, which affords a "basic" treatment, serves the average layperson (it's only 700 pages), but it is also a solid "refresher" for a well-trained, reading pastors, which excludes many evangelical and most liberal pastors alike. Avaricious readers used to be the expectation, the sine qua non of that profession. We regret this no longer obtains. Both of those sub species, evangelicals and liberals, alleged moral leaders, would do well to grab a pen, some paper, repent earnestly (including wearing undergarment of goat's hair with self-flagellative tools for whippings) and humbly digest this work designed for solid, educated laymen. For laymen who deserve the best since Christ died for them, this measures up. For lazy laymen without discipline, wake up, O Skull with lips, O Slug, and read this. "Thy brain and sluggish heart is empty". All serious laypersons in whom Christ has placed Himself and a thirst for Himself, tolle lege.

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This Book Becomes More Valuable as the Years Go By

Dr. Boice's untimely death in 2000 still hurts to this day, but we still have his tapes and books to inspire us. This volume ranks as the author's highest achievement--a concise, readable, in-depth presentation of the foundations of the Christian faith. (If you want the audio tapes, contact the Alliance of Confessing Evangeliecals in Philadelphia, PA). I return to this book from time to time just to refresh myself and get inspired all over again to preach the Good News.

Dr. Boice stands as one of the greatest pastor/teachers of the 20th century and this book will cause you to buy and read his other commentaries as well.

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