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  <title><![CDATA[Searching for a Better God]]></title>
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  <default_description>The questions about God that used to center around his existence are now aimed at his morality the God who permits diseases and natural disasters that kill innocent people; the God that allows brutal dictators to rule with an iron fist. At best this God is aloof and uncaring; at worst he is primitive and cruel.   Many of the contemporary generation have concluded, through what is called common sense theology, that we are actually morally superior to God and he is less than inadequate. Even some in the church have begun to suspect this same thing that God just isnt that great. But as people of faith, we have an understanding that helps us bridge the reality of what we see with those realities we do not see. So how are we to communicate that to a skeptical generation?  In Searching for a Better God, Wade Bradshaw shows us that the caricatures many have drawn of God are not accurate and God, as described in the Bible, is misunderstood. Ideas about God that at first consideration seem unethical are precisely how we need God to be. He gives us ways to talk to those who doubt Gods character. By thoroughly explaining and examining this contemporary, common sense theology, Bradshaw brings us back to confident hope in God, the perfect and moral God of the Bible.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary: Wade Bradshaw addresses the challenges to an orthodox interpretation of God by a society that is increasingly redefining the role and morality of God.<br/><br/>This book outlines the charge against Christianity in modern Western society: that God, if he exists, is not a good God, and his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43069034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great read on the shift in the current questions about God of our new generation.  He diagnoses that the younger generation isn't as much concerned as to whether God exists as much as the God of the Bible isn't as moral as they are.  Responds to these questions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book pulls out the questions which, culturally, we are asking of God, and answers them with surprising clarity, in the vein of C.S. Lewis.]]></body>
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