A book by Vishal Mangalwadi
This is a brief summery from what I got out of reading this book.
The book that made your world
This is a brief summery from what I got out of reading this book.
The book that made your world
This book is an exposition of philosophy to make defense to the idea that everything good is from the Bible, that Gods word through Moses “all nations would be blessed” can be proclaimed.
It starts out with stating nihilism; the belief that there is no truth and everything is pointless, shown relevant in the USA by Kurk Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana who being the most prevalent nihilist in the western world highlights his testimony with a bullet through his head.
If you take away truth you take away everything. Taking away truth we (homo-sapiens) are considered worthless, just something that takes up space. The argument for truth found in scripture reflects everything good on this planet including; music, technology, government structure, knowledge, art, science, moral values, health, education and more.
Through different stages in the western world; the renaissance, dark ages, enlightenment, reformation the bible was either accepted and was acknowledged as ultimate truth or was abused or even hidden.
It is magnificent to read the history of the western world and its origins in comparison to the eastern world and its origins. It is interesting to see that all nations have the same opportunities to grow and to create. But with corruption and failure to see human worth we see countries like Uganda that spend millions of people fetching water every day! If there was a pump available maybe 100 people could supply water to that mass majority and then move on to the next problem.
Vishal brings its whole emphasis strictly with the bible, he kept his ideas strictly on history and the bible not giving much room for maybe his own “dogmatic views” without taking it to the Bible first.
He has many stories of sacrificial serving in India bringing out his beliefs and studies through practical and real situations, all very impacting causing you to really think about the importance of missions.
As we precede more into the future of “no intelligence allowed”, which is starting to include so many aspects of the western world, we are realizing that there is a steady decline in Christian thinking and leading. Vishal brings out a point that America is on the heavy decline. That it would need to remember the basics of its founding fathers to continue as a mighty country. Schools like Harvard are questioning truth to its core and leaning far away from the basic doctrine of the bible Vishal points to the movie about the Facebook founder called “The Social Network”.
The western world is undermining truth by means of relativism and this book is a call for us to remember the core of the kingdom. Truth. It’s a call to move us into remembering the relevance of the bible in this day and pushes us to express ourselves as creators and intellectuals by the Grace of God with its foundation made on Him through the bible.
This book helped me in so many ways in apologetics and another strong desire to know the Bible more.
Jonathan V
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