By Phil Stanton
Kingsway. 122 pages
ISBN 0 85476 766 5
This book is a plea for humble, transforming reading of the Bible and a critique of 'the world's' attempt to stop us doing this. The Bible Code is used as an example of how this attempt happens.
The first chapter sets up the idea of 'the system' conspiring to prevent Bible-reading. The next two assess Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997). This is followed by a call to hold onto common sense in the face of 'expert' opinion. Two central chapters set out the scope of the conspiracy: outside the church, those in power resist the Bible because they resist the idea of an authority higher than themselves; even within the church, Bible-reading is made rare by liberal theology. Final chapters discuss how to read the Bible and how to experience the gospel's transformation.
