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Every Christian needs to read/listen to this book!

Revisado: 02-19-21

Alisa Childers interviewed the author on her YouTube channel and recommended this book as the most important book a Christian could read in 2021. I cannot guarantee it will prove to be the most important book I read in 2021, but it will take something very significant to beat this one. This book is eye-opening and has helped me understand quite a few things I did not even realize I *needed* to understand. I sincerely hope that the prayers of Christians can prevent this information from proving as valuable as I fear it might.

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Excellent Core Concepts, Presented Clearly

Revisado: 10-21-20

I greatly appreciate both the tactics explained in this book, and how well they were explained. I hope to recognize and seize opportunities to put them to good use. The core tactics of the book seem especially helpful. My only complaint is minor: the breakdown into variously named subcategories got a bit tedious. For example, I felt it needless to subdivide self-contradictions into that many categories. It risks overcomplicating things, especially for someone new to working with logic. However, the book presents such good material, a little overcomplication seems barely noticeable by comparison.

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Excellent content, irritating narration

Revisado: 10-15-20

As with John Lennox's other books, the content is excellent. It expanded my understanding and enriched my theological understanding of determinism and free will. It helped me think through a few aspects of TULIP (Calvinism) and eternal security in ways I have not previously. I greatly appreciate the author's Biblical commitment and focus, plus the considerable effort he put into well-thought-out exegeses of all of the relevant passages of Scripture.

Unfortunately, William Crocket mangled the narration. It seems like he did not bother pre-reading sentences, so he sometimes misread sentences whose structures or wording apparently surprised him. Worse, he consistently mispronounced a variety of common words. These mispronunciations initially prove distracting, but soon grow genuinely irritating. Sometimes they even change or confuse the meaning of the text. My quick Google search suggests this has been a consistent problem with his narrations. I'm far from the only person who will buy no more of his work.

Some mispronunciation examples:

1) He mispronounces "differ" as "defer", creating confusion.

2) Ditto with "Incur" as "in cure".

3) "Causally" and "casually" should NOT get pronounced the same. At first I had to listen again to determine what Lennox meant to communicate. Fortunately, as Crocket kept mispronouncing this, I learned to reintepret it on the fly... mostly.

4) "National" should have the emphasis on the first syllable, not the last, and does NOT rhyme with "pal". It should be pronounced "NASH-un-ul" not "nash-un-AAL.

5) "Disingenuous" does NOT contain the word "genius". (The irony...)

6) "Similarly" does NOT rhyme with "fairly" and has the emphasis on "sim", not on... uhh... "lair". Unfortunately, Lennox uses this word often enough that even if it were Crocket's only mispronunciation, his narration would grow somewhat grating.

7) "Subsequent" and "subsequently" do NOT have "seek" in the middle, much less with the emphasis on it. Lennox uses these often enough that Crocket's constant repetition of "sub-SEEK-went" alone would create an exercise in endurance... simi-LAIR-ly to the previous mispronunciation.

You get the idea. I highly recommend this book... in the printed / text editions.

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