Through New Eyes
by James B. Jordan
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Author: James B. JordanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-01
ISBN: 157910259X
Number of pages: 360
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Book Review: God's Awe Inspiring Glory
Summary: 5 Stars
Through New Eyes looks at all creation with a sharp understanding of God's intent. The question and answer, "Why did God make all things?- For His own glory," is expounded and is awe inspiring. Jordan describes gemstones as "frozen pieces of glory, but we can also see them as frozen pieces of the rainbow... also a manifestation of glory." "It is written on the heart of man to appreciate glory, and it takes a great act of the will to pervert this attraction," a beautiful sunset, a rainbow, a diamond.
Jordan shows us the created world as beautiful pictures of heaven, pictures of God's glory.
Jordan loves to point out the chiasms in the Bible and that's all very interesting but my real appreciation of this book came in the imagery he causes us to notice.
The one complaint I have with Jordan is that he shows us the fantastical but then occasionally moves in to the absurd. For example, he writes of the lengths of the patriarchs' lives as "curious numerical lengths." And sure, the lives must be of a certain length for God's perfect purposes, like, Enoch lived 365 years, same as our solar year, fascinating. But I think it's a stretch to, by golly make something work somehow: "Kenan lived 910 years, ten times a standard quarter year of 91 days." I mean, couldn't any number eventually do that sort of gymnastic fit?
An excellent understanding of man's activity in culture as the image bearer of his Creator ending with a Christian's distinguishing and critical act of giving thanks to God. "It is not possible to take hold of the world with the intention of sinning and still give thanks to God for it." Thanks to God tempers our actions and our motives.
Jordan does a great job of showing us God's glory in refreshingly new ways, well, not exactly new, but reconsidered with clarity.
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