{"product_id":"sinners-in-the-hands-of-a-loving-god-by-brian-zahnd","title":"Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePopular thinker, speaker, pastor and author Brian Zahnd tackles the widespread and erroneous theology of an angry, vindictive god. Pastor Zahnd passionately rejects this distortion by pointing to the God who is revealed in Jesus Christ, the God who is unconditional love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePastor Brian Zahnd began\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"to question the theology of a wrathful God who delights in punishing sinners, and has started to explore the real nature of Jesus and His Father. The book isn't only an interesting look at the context of some modern theological ideas; it's also offers some profound insight into God's love and eternal plan.\" -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRelevant Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGod is wrath? Or God is Love?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his famous sermon \"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,\" Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards's wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Zahnd experienced instead was the Father's love-revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ-for all prodigal sons and daughters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSinners in the Hands of a Loving God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Zahnd asks important questions like\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGod is wrath\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGod is love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Zahnd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52096778862812,"sku":"16101","price":12.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/9949\/6668\/files\/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_a_Loving_God_by_Brian_Zahnd.jpg?v=1784770092","url":"https:\/\/www.evermorebooks.co.nz\/products\/sinners-in-the-hands-of-a-loving-god-by-brian-zahnd","provider":"Evermore Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}