God Is Exceedingly Great

OBSERVATIONS

There were two compelling reasons for the writing of this book. The prime mover was my passion for praising and honoring the Divine Persona who gives me life and breath and all things. For several decades, He has been the center and circumference of my entire life. I have preached about the strength and infinity of His love, taught about the amazing quality and quantity of His grace and written about the greatness of His sovereignty and care. I have found that God is truly exceedingly great.
One evening I was watching Larry King as he was interviewing a British journalist and avowed atheist named Christopher Hitchens. Mr. Hitchens had just recently written a book entitled ‘god is not Great’, and the subject of the interview was the content of the book.
Mr Hitchens claimed that atheism and Darwin’s theory of evolution had combined to shred religion to the point of reducing it to a non-entity and had emasculated the God of religion.
As I listened to the exchange between Larry King and Christopher Hitchens, I decided to read Mr. Hitchen’s book, ‘god is not Great’, and pen a spiritually religious answer.
I read the book, ‘god is not Great’ twice and then outlined the chapters in order to get an honest overview of the theme of the book. It wasn’t an easy task to outline the chapters.
Mr. Hitchens was a very proficient writer. He was an accomplished wordsmith and I am sure that he was eminent in the journalistic world. But his extensive journalistic work gave him such a plethora of experiences, that the theme in several of the chapters of his book was pluralized. Thus I was forced to choose what I considered to be the dominant topic of each chapter. However, since the main arguments were repeated throughout the book I was able to cover the entire extent of his thesis.
As I read the book, ‘god is not Great’, I developed a vicarious acquaintance with an individual who had adopted a deep passion to destroy religion because of the disillusionment he had suffered from a very superficial study of this vital subject. Nowhere in his book did I find the author dealing with true religion in his arguments. The fraudulent and marginal were always the theme of his discussion. If only he had applied Alexander Pope’s famous quote, “A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep or touch not the Pyrrhean Spring,” to his study of religion, perhaps his perspective of religion would have been diametrically different.
I was sorry to hear that Mr. Hitchens passed away as I was writing this book.
I wrote an answer to Mr. Hitchens book, chapter by chapter but the finished product was too negative. So I wrote an entirely new manuscript which answers Mr. Hitchens theories in a very positive manner. You have the finished product in your hands, “God is Exceedingly Great.”