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    Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
    Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
    Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
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    Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

    Written by Philip Yancey

    Narrated by J. C. Howe and Jay Charles

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    Many of us experience times when life with God seems to fall short of our expectations—when we feel let down by God, hurt, or abandoned.

    This is something most people don't talk about—until now.

    In this classic work of Christian integrity and spiritual investigation, Philip Yancey gives us permission to look directly into our doubts and reckon with them. He uncovers the real and lasting hope that can be found in the midst of darkness and disillusion, exploring three questions that Christians wonder about but rarely feel permission to voice:

    • If God is so hungry for relationship with us, why does he seem so distant?
    • If God cares for us, why do bad things happen?
    • If God's promises are true, why do they feel so far off from personal experience?

    With his gift for articulating and answering some of the most honest, complex issues of faith, Philip Yancey points you beyond doubt and hardship to a stronger, wiser faith, a confidence in God's deep love, and a thirst to reach not just for what God gives, but for who God is.

    Included in the 25th anniversary edition is a study guide with questions about these perplexing crises of faith that the author confronts.

    Spanish edition also available.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 9, 2008
    ISBN9780310304395
    Author

    Philip Yancey

    Philip Yancey es periodista, autor de varios éxitos de librería y conferencista. Sus más de veinte libros son conocidos por su honestidad, profundas búsquedas en torno a la fe cristiana, especialmente en lo que concierne a interrogantes y dilemas personales. Millones de ávidos lectores lo consideran como un compañero confiable en la búsqueda de una fe que importe. Philip y su esposa Janet viven en Colorado.

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    • 1/5
      Yancy begins his book with examples of circumstances from several Christians who have suffered greatly and feel disappointed with or abandoned by God. The author chooses the situation of Richard, the person suffering the least of the examples (but a fellow author), to follow throughout the book.Using OT scriptures, Mr. Yancy tries to explain the mind of God. His attempt actually turns eerie (downright creepy) when Yancy imagines himself as God questioning in his mind whether or not man would obey when created.It is my opinion that Mr. Yancy conveys the message that those who are disappointed in God are pretenders. They are people who never had “real” faith so they never were true believers. Instead of helping a friend out of a spiritual depression, Mr. Yancy slapped him down and decided he just did not have enough faith.There was no compassion in the book for the suffering Christian. Mr. Yancy has his own experience being a pretender as he explains in the book that he deliberately pretended to be a Christian in college until one day he began praying out loud and “had a vision of Jesus”. It is also my opinion that Mr. Yancy’s answers in this book are no better than the callous conversations the friends of Job had for his sufferings.Mr. Yancy’s questions in the book were:1. Is God unfair?2. Is God silent?3. Is God hidden?My questions for Mr. Yancy are:1. Are you trying to prove the old adage “Christians shoot their wounded”?2. Do you have no compassion for a suffering Christian?3. Did a tree have to die for this book? I have suffered the worst thing a parent can suffer and I would never recommend this book to a Christian who is going through trials.

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    • 5/5
      Well done. I highy recommend this to anyone struggling with doubts

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    • 5/5
      It was good book I enjoyed reading it I like to learn more about god
    • 5/5
      Rated: A-I love Philip Yancy and his theology and journalism. In this book, he answers three questions: Is God unfair? (no, life's unfair, not God). Is God silent? Is God hidden? He provides a practical perspective for believers and doubters. Plus, the book is offers a unique commentary on the Book of Job."They had doubted him once, but after the Resurrection they would not doubt him again.""In his book 'Wishful Thinking', Fredrick Buechner sums up God's speech. 'God doesn't explain. He explodes. He asks Job who he thinks he is anyway. He says that to try to explain the kind of things Job wants explained would be like trying to explain Einstein to a little-neck clam....God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals himself.' The message behind the splendid poetry boils down to this: Until you know a little more about running the physical universe, Job, don't tell me how to run the moral universe.""The same urgent questions torment almost every suffering person: Why? Why me? What is God trying to tell me? In the Book of Job, God deflects those questions of cause, and focuses instead on our response of faith""Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself. The Incarnation did not "solve" human suffering, but at least it was an active and personal response in the truest sense, no words can speak more loudly than the Word.""Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse....trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him.""As Rabbi Abraham Heschel observed, 'Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it si the result of having been shaken.'"
    • 5/5
      Profound insights into the reason so many feel abandoned by/disappointed with God - His defeating silence - and how we can adjust our expectations of what intimacy with God may look like…& the purpose of this painful aspect of faith.
    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed this book, even though the readability was a bit tedious. It deals with the topic of how sometimes (or most times) we feel like God isn't near us. We go through tough times and wonder where God is in all of that, but really, another way to view it is where are we in all of this? What is our response to God when we endure heartache or disease?

      Many people want to see God, to have miracles happen all the time, to have every prayer answered. Philip Yancey gives some good arguments as to why God doesn't do this. It's not because he doesn't care or he's not powerful. It's because back in the day, when he did those things with the Israelites, they turned away from Him. A really interesting way of thinking about things, though.
    • 4/5
      Thoughtful and uncompromising work dealing with difficult issues. Yancy works hard and helping us understand the seeming silence and absence of God, especially in times of profound distress. I would like to see Yancy include more of how this issue has been dealt with over they years rather than write as if these were all original ideas. I would also like to see more discipline in his references. And excellent book all around.
    • 5/5
      Is God hidden, fair, visible? The best treatment I have ever come across on this subject. No matter how much you have studied, this book is guaranteed to cause you to have new directions of thought.
    • 1/5
      Yancy begins his book with examples of circumstances from several Christians who have suffered greatly and feel disappointed with or abandoned by God. The author chooses the situation of Richard, the person suffering the least of the examples (but a fellow author), to follow throughout the book.Using OT scriptures, Mr. Yancy tries to explain the mind of God. His attempt actually turns eerie (downright creepy) when Yancy imagines himself as God questioning in his mind whether or not man would obey when created.It is my opinion that Mr. Yancy conveys the message that those who are disappointed in God are pretenders. They are people who never had “real” faith so they never were true believers. Instead of helping a friend out of a spiritual depression, Mr. Yancy slapped him down and decided he just did not have enough faith.There was no compassion in the book for the suffering Christian. Mr. Yancy has his own experience being a pretender as he explains in the book that he deliberately pretended to be a Christian in college until one day he began praying out loud and “had a vision of Jesus”. It is also my opinion that Mr. Yancy’s answers in this book are no better than the callous conversations the friends of Job had for his sufferings.Mr. Yancy’s questions in the book were:1. Is God unfair?2. Is God silent?3. Is God hidden?My questions for Mr. Yancy are:1. Are you trying to prove the old adage “Christians shoot their wounded”?2. Do you have no compassion for a suffering Christian?3. Did a tree have to die for this book? I have suffered the worst thing a parent can suffer and I would never recommend this book to a Christian who is going through trials.
    • 5/5
      This is probably one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read. I found it exceptionally good. This is NOT a superficial treatment of suffering and is not intended as an afternoon read. It dares to delve where other authors haven't.
    • 4/5
      Is God silent? Is He unfair? Why doesn't He intervene? These are some of the questions that Yancey attempts to answer in this book, that is both biblical and personal. Very interesting and helpful to read, not sure I agree with all of it but excellent food for thought.