I read quite a bit and often on books about Christianity. I’ve read my fair share of liberal writes such as John Dominic Crossan, Bart Ehrman, Brian McLaren and others, so I always appreciate any book about Jesus that is true to what the Bible clearly says about Him. David Limbaugh does just that. He gives a thorough examination of the Gospels and answers that question of who is Jesus. He’s the Son of God, second member of the Trinity, who affirms His deity and died for the sins of His people.
He quotes a ton of great theologians throughout the book. Names like John Macarthur, D.A. Carson, R.C. April, Arthur Pink, John Owen and many others. So he’s getting great supportive material for his positions.
He handles a few issues well that naturally come up when reading the New Testament. Examples such as who is “the rock” Jesus mentions in Matthew 16 or that the woman caught in adultery wasn’t often found in the oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of John.
Normally I would give a book like this four stars, but I had to remove another star because of at least four glaring errors.
He miss references four separate scriptures. Three of them are probably the most important passages in the New Testament.
– Page 40, he references 1 John 20:30-31. That should be just John, not 1 John.
– Page 100, he references the Great Commission correctly earlier in the page only to call it Matthew 18 a paragraph later.
– Page 131, he references John 3:16 as John 4:17!
– Page 226, he quotes the famous Carmen Christi and calls it Philippians 4:6-8, instead of 2:6-8.
He uses the verses correctly in context, but it would seem a huge error when editing the book to get such big passages incorrect. I tweeted about this and he responded with the following..
