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   2.0 out of 5 stars Thunderbolts of the gods, March 1, 2008
   By
   dhlnz

   This review is from: Thunderbolts of the Gods + DVD (Perfect
   Paperback)

   Initially, after reading this book, i was very pleased with its
   content and the effort to make sense of all the world's various
   legends about their different gods, then i realized that a page was
   missing from my early copy. A replacement revealed that, this page
   alone cut through my hope that the book could be read without the need
   of picking out the bones.

   While accurately attributing the identity of some cultural-deities as
   planetary bodies, the author presents the speculation that 'every'
   culture's ancient texts can be reduced down to a representation with
   only a celestial meaning. Every culture was not likely totally immune
   from the confusion that overtook the world during the catastrophic
   period, but this does not mean that Yahweh be reduced to the same
   identity as the physical god's of diverse cultures.

   Any confusion, before the time of Christ, about the identity of Yaweh,
   the God of all creation, was resolved by an act of reconciliation as
   He once again walked among mankind as the person, Jesus of Nazareth,
   and through demonstration of spiritual realities and power over the
   physical realm revealed that he is not like the other gods which
   people honored.

   Confusion is being reintroduced as mankind mixes their doubts and
   unbelief with modern scientific discoveries.

   In this book, there may be a valid explanation for what happened in
   this world which caused so many cultures to worship celestial bodies
   as gods but that potential solution only applies to physical realities
   and can never disqualify the spiritual realities that are experienced
   to this day in them that exercise their faith in Jesus. dzp

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   Initial post: Mar 18, 2011 11:36:24 AM PDT
   J. E. White says:

   However, that does not merit reducing this to two stars, because -

   1) the Genesis narrative , at the time it was codified, was designed
   to challenge the world view, culture, and gods of Babylon, Israel's
   captor, and to give unique identity to both Jahweh and His creation,
   and to Jahweh's created and designated people who were called to (and
   failed at) representing Him to the nations.

   2) That identity of Jahweh stands for ALL time against ALL other
   cultures, worldviews, and gods, be they Babylonian, those described by
   Thornhill, et al. or those we encounter today, whether modernism ,
   enlightenment, reason, pscience, post modernism, or whatever.

   3) The scenarios suggested by Thornhill should not be dismissed on
   this account. These merit further scholarly investigation. As a
   possible alternative to varieties of creationism and to Darwinian
   evolution, they provide not only an alternative to a multitude of
   interpretations, but remind the thinking person of the difference
   between fact and interpretations of fact. Scientific knowledge is
   limited to facts, not to interpreations. For every man there is that
   which goes beyond the facts of science (whether they be postulated by
   Darwin, Thornhill, Newton, or Einstein) to give meaning to who we are,
   why we are here, and where we are going.
   The claims of Jahweh (from Genesis to Revelation) to have created
   (whatever the mechanics) ex amore, to have invested Himself in, to
   inhabit, as a composer, His creation, to have fashioned mankind in His
   image to be co-creators of His symphony, still stand as a challenge
   and a choice. It is the derivatives and interpretations of facts that
   are in question, not the facts.