The Box You Can Put God In

De: Randy J. Elstrott

Narrado por: Randy J. Elstrott

Unveil the true nature of God as expressed in the Bible.

The Box You Can Put God In unveils the true but hidden nature of God. It is structured as a novel, with a main character, a villain, a plot, and a surprise ending, but it isn’t fiction. It is first century theology reworked for the average 21st century listener. When piecing together an understanding of God, one should not stop before he has listened to this book.

It will answer questions such as these:
If the Bible is God-breathed, why does it contradict itself?
If God is good, why is the world filled with evil?
Is God in control of everything?
Why is the God of the Old Testament so different from the God of the New Testament?

Randy J. Elstrott has been a minister in the New Orleans area for three decades. He is best known for his ability to communicate difficult concepts in a way that allows His listeners to easily grasp complex truths. Not only does he have a passion to see people fall deeply in love with Jesus, he is also devoted to understanding and sharing the nature of God.

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So refreshing! It actually makes the Gospel sound like good news!

Although it can be very difficult to believe that all the seeming contradictions of the Bible are reconcilable, Randy Elstrott does the best job of anyone I’ve ever heard/read attempting to do so! If you don’t like the hateful behavior attributed to God in the Bible, this is a must-read!!!!

A book worth considering

On the topic of all Scripture being God-breathed, we might also take into careful consideration that the process of breathing consists not only of exhaling but inhaling, as well.

I personally found this reminder a breath of fresh air in reading The Box You Can Put God In by Randy Elstrott.

In Randy Elstrott's book, The Box You Can Put God In, he describes God-breathing consisting of both inhaling and exhaling, such that God's inhaling is His stooping to accommodate man's primitive understanding of God's character (as authors depicted God doing or saying things outside of His Character because "in each case the human author fully believed what he wrote, and he intended for it to be taken literally). The words were Spirit-breathed, but they were inhaled, not exhaled. The Holy Spirit would later reveal each of these passages on His Part to be some form of figurative speech.
Now, to be clear, the historical events described in these passages are actual history. They happened. What was not meant to be taken literally was God's part in said events. As in the case of Numbers 16, God was often depicted as being directly responsible for terrible and often unfair destruction of human life. As Paul discerned, a third party enemy was actually responsible for these destructive acts of violence." [1 Cor. 10:10]
-Elstrott (from Chapter 7 of The Box You Can Put God In)

Anyone interested in learning more about this perspective of interpreting Scripture would do well to consider the material in this book.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the exact visible representation of the invisible God ("If you have seen Me, you have seen The Father"), He is Himself God, He knows God most-intimately (in face-to-face relationship), and He perfectly reveals to us God's cruciform shape (Cross-shaped) and kenotic (self-emptying) character in love. Indeed, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.