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God According To God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along (2009)

by Gerald Schroeder(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061710156 (ISBN13: 9780061710155)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

HarperOne

review 1: Some interesting views about God. Despite basing its arguments mainly in the Torah and ancients Jewish commentators, the author's view of God is not a traditional one. For him, God has been also learning how to deal and how to relate with His creation, specially us, humans. We are "partners" of God in keeping His creation. One of the most interesting parts is the argument in favour of the existence of a metaphysical world based in modern physics discoveries. Wisdom precedes energy and material world is just one part of the reality.All in all, a good read. Although a bit slow and technical at times (both in physics and in theology), is a worthy effort.
review 2: As a physicist who also has a deep knowledge of the Old Testament, Schroeder has been an influential ... morethinker. His basic thesis is that god is not infallible, but an evolving, mostly hands-off Mind that undergirds existence. Not exactly the clock maker who abandoned his clock, not exactly impersonal, but close enough for practical purposes.In fact the main flaw of this book is that it completely fails to demonstrate how such a god is different from no god at all -- how such a god would be relevant to one's individual existence within the scope of one's lifetime. Nor does it evade the inevitable rationalizations about the "problem of pain" -- you would have to accept some kind of afterlife as a settled fact in order to rationalize random suffering and loss.The book's main contribution, if you can call it that, is that it attempts, with mixed results, to harmonize scripture with this more scientific hypothesis about god, thus giving those unwilling to let go of the Bible as a holy book a framework for a new theology that is more in step with the reality of how we actually experience life. In other words, Schroeder strikes at the heart of the fantasy god who is a wise, consistent, unchanging, benevolent father figure who will always take care of us if we do well. For chipping away at that fantasy, at least, I have to take my hat off to the author. less

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