Faith on a Stone Foundation Audiobook by Stephan Grozinger
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Title: Faith on a Stone Foundation Subtitle: Free Will, Morality and the God of Abraham Author: Stephan Grozinger Narrator: Stephan Grozinger Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 11-01-17 Publisher: Stephan Grozinger Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary: Christianity appears to be in sharp decline. Between 2007 and 2014, the number of adults in the United States who consider themselves Christian dropped from 78% to 70%. For two millennia, despite many profound challenges, Christianity experienced nothing but exponential growth. Now, in the last decade, Christians are simply walking away from religious affiliation. What is going on? Will faith inevitably decline? Will our understanding of God become secularized until he is nothing but a metaphor for what is good and noble in humanity? Author Stephan Grozinger argues that faiths best years are still ahead of it. He explores recent advances in science and philosophy regarding the question of whether human beings have free will and concludes that we do not. But far from being a source of anxiety or even a death sentence for faith, this idea may be the instrument of its renewal. Grozinger describes how, in its earliest years, Christianity came under the thrall of Platonism, which offered some proofs of God's existence, but at a heavy price. The influence of Plato created a hybrid vision of God: the unconditionally loving God of Scripture and an immovable god, the very Form of Good, who commands, tests, rewards, and punishes. The same powerful evolutionary forces that shaped our bodies and minds seduced us into thinking these two contradictory visions could be reconciled. Christianity became a religion that encouraged good, socially useful behavior and turned itself into a scold. Unable to embrace the conclusions of science and philosophy regarding free will, popular-culture faith was left behind and often insults our intelligence and offends our moral sensibilities. But faith's original message is still compelling. By setting aside Plato's influence, a more ancient vision of God and our relationship to Him emerges.

Members Reviews: He claims this - not some moralistic value system - is what truly makes Judeo-Christianity counter-cultural and that we naturall Two things make this book startlingly different from everything that has come before it: Most commentators, from antiquity to modernity, have approached the question of free will and grace by comparing competing scriptural passages and declaring either human free will or Godâs sovereignty more important than the other based on what passages spoke most powerfully to them. They inevitably split the baby and gave one precedence over the other, but never fully dispensed with either. This book approaches the question entirely differently. It starts from the conclusion, based on science and philosophy, that human beings donât have free will, and then reviews the scripture from that unique, fresh perspective. While every organized religion claims that some people either earn or are predestined to receive or accept Godâs grace and leaves others out, Grozingerâs theology is unabashed, uncompromising universal salvation. He claims this - not some moralistic value system - is what truly makes Judeo-Christianity counter-cultural and that we naturally dislike it as a result of the environment in which our minds evolved. A very thoughtful and well written book.

This is not a rehashing of dusty arguments about Augustine ... This is not a rehashing of dusty arguments about Augustine, Calvin, prevenient grace and predestination. Grozinger barely mentions them. Instead, he takes a modern approach.