The Reason For God

so I am going to attempt what I thought I could never do: read two books at one time

I have the Journey of Desire and now I will try to finish the Reason for God, too.
with soccer gone, maybe I can hold back on the computer and finish these books before the end of the summer

an interesting reason for why I want to read this book:
whenever I run into a theological or trapped situation in my spiritual life, I ask my cousin what he would do in my situation. He's helped me many times in my spiritual walk and is a sort of a distant accountable partner. In one of my situations, we had a very long discussion on the gospel and he recommended me this book. I may not take as much as he did from this book because he and this book are both so....i don't even know the word...just like intellectually...smarter...wiser? in every way. so here I am, just getting a general idea of what this book is about

what this book is about:
timothy keller tackles many questions that people that argue against Christianity, hence the name "The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism". some questions that he points out:
-What is the true religion?
-How could a good God allow suffering?
-How can a loving God send people to Hell?
The other chapters in the book is there to help prove God. What is all comes down to is the Gospel. The Message. The Good News. I got sum readin' to do so I blog allllll about it when I'm done

here's something interesting that i've gotten so far:
timothy keller kicks the book off with the issue of true religion. The question that everyone asks: how do you know your religion is the true religion? now this is just something i found so interesting but the realization of the problem is so simple that i couldn't believe that he could explain just with a simple example:
"Several blind men were walking along and came upon an elephant that allowed them to touch and feel it. "This creature is long and flexible like a snake" said the first blind man, holding the elephant's trunk. "not at all-it is thick and round like a tree trunk," said the second blind man, feeling the elephant's leg. "No, it is large and flat,
said the third blind man, touching the elephant's side. Each blind man could feel only part of the elephant-none could envision the entire elephant. In the same way, it is argued, the religions of the world each have a grasp on part of the truth about spiritual reality, but none can see the whole elephant or claim to have a comprehensive vision of the truth. " (8)
it's using this example to show that all of us could have a part of the truth, but none can see the truth as a whole. we're all convinced we're right, but we have to look at the entire truth, but...
The following section has a quote: "Religious belief is too culturally and historically conditioned to be 'truth.'"
this is saying that it's become so hard to see the entire truth because religion has been changed by culture and history

even my low intellectual level could understand what this means. i am still reading, but i just wanted to point out the example of the elephant because it seems to be so true.

hopefully i'll be able to finish without being busted from all the high use of vocab words in this book. if anyone would read it with me, that'd be cool (besides just Larry(nothin' on ya)) and awesome

Info on Timothy Keller

and this is my 2am improvised blog post (while eating ramen noodles)