My God, Your God?
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180 Pages, published 12/14/2009
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In the book, My God, Your God?, I tell about being a devout atheist for 50 years. I then describe how when I took an analytical and objective look at the question of God, I realized the errors of my thinking and became a believer and Christian. Wanting to know more of God, I began researching four questions:
- Is God real?
- What is the nature of God?
- What does God expect from our?
- What can we expect from God?
The approach is that of a research engineer using logic on information from numerous fields including: archeology, history, biology, genetics, evolution, astronomy, science and the Christian Bible. However, the presentation is non-technical.
If there is a God and He did create everything, then He must have left some evidence. In fact, I found that God did leave much evidence, and He did so as He interceded throughout the history of the universe. Discovery and examination of this evidence provides the basis for the conclusions reached in the book. The philosophy was to follow the evidence, no matter where it led. Much of the approach is out-of-the-box thinking and different from most other books about God. Yet, with this unorthodox approach, the final result is close to that of fundamental Christianity.
If you are a non-believer, be aware I have the utmost respect for you and your opinions; remember I once was a non-believer. My goal here is not to have you believe exactly as I do, but rather to have you give serious and objective thought to the question of God and then make up your own mind. If you are a truth-seeker and enjoy a logical approach, I believe you will enjoy the book and your mind may be changed.
In the Excerpts from Books tab at the top you will find the complete Chapter 1, Introduction and Chapter 3 My Beliefs Before from the book. This book does contain some original results not previously published which I believe you will also find interesting.
All the chapters are listed below:
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY
Chapter 3 MY BELIEFS BEFORE
Chapter 4 ENTER BARBARA AND GOD
Chapter 5 THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE
Chapter 6 IF THERE IS A GOD THEN….
Chapter 7 SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE
Chapter 8 CONSCIOUSNES
Chapter 9 FIRST COMPLETE HUMANS
Chapter 10 HOW CONSCIOUSNES HAPPENED
Chapter 11 GOD AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNES
Chapter 12 PRAYER AND RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Chapter 13 FREE WILL IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 14 QUESTIONS ANSWERED
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX A THE SINERS PRAYER
APPENDIX B OMNISCIENCE BIBLE VERSES
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ForeWord Clarion Review (May 2010)
RELIGION
My God, Your God?
Wallace (Shaun) Shaunfield
Four Stars (out of Five)
In his short but comprehensive book, My God, Your God? Wallace Shaunfield uses a trained engineer’s analytical skills to decipher the mystical realities of religious faith. Citing thinkers from John Wesley to Carl Sagan, Blaise Pascal to Richard Dawkins, Shaunfield reconciles the Big Bang, evolution, and Adam and Eve with a believing Christian’s personal relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
The author attended church as a child but then spent fifty years as a nonbeliever. He came to Christianity shortly before the illness and death of his wife, a devout Christian. He says his faith was reaffirmed by his “personal experiences with God at the time of Barbara’s death.” No one who finishes his book will deny Shaunfield’s intelligence, passion, or the sincerity of his belief.
“Prior to the big-bang, there was nothing: no matter, no time or anything,” the author writes. “…Now consider which is more farfetched; the universe I described above, or the concept of God existing in another space-time that is very near our own?”
Those who rely on specific theological doctrines will find Shaunfield’s exploration and explanations extraordinarily individualized. For example, he concludes that, “It is the acquisition of consciousness that makes Homo sapiens complete human beings. Probably the most important reason for understanding consciousness is that through our consciousness we can have a relationship with God.” It is the author’s belief that consciousness was bestowed on human beings only five to ten thousand years ago. With this thesis, he delves into a discussion of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden—looking at them as both allegories and as historical figures.
Shaunfield accepts evolution as part of God’s process of creation, and he writes with fascination about the origin of living cells. “Given the major significance of how life formed on earth and knowing that God does intervene in important points in the history of the earth, I submit that it was God who initiated the formation of original life on earth,” he writes. That, of course, is a declaration of faith. There are other such statements of faith in this slim volume as the author moves often from analysis to belief; this is understandable, since even skeptics realize that the tools furnished by human intellect are inadequate to the task of explaining the infinitely unknowable.
Readers who enjoy complexity of analysis will find the chapters on human consciousness and free will to be worth reading more than once. Shaunfield believes he has crafted an analysis sufficient to sustain his faith in thirteen tenets based on “overwhelming evidence and logic and reason.” Of his readers, he asks only that they think about the issues he raises and make up their own minds.
Gary Presley
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