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God Almighty: The Beginning of the End — Special Edition
In God Almighty, the first book in the Our Yahweh series, Benjamin Nieves Carrasquillo Jr. brings biblical history, Christian theology, and visual storytelling together in an ambitious exploration of Scripture. This revised and expanded edition reflects the author’s deep personal faith and years of studying biblical history, ancient languages, and religious traditions. The book combines richly illustrated biblical narratives with educational sections designed to help readers better understand the people, events, and theological ideas found in the Bible. Carrasquillo approaches his subject with genuine reverence, encouraging readers to develop a closer relationship with Yahweh through thoughtful engagement with Scripture. His use of Hebrew names, historical references, and carefully selected biblical passages gives the work a distinctive identity. From the opening pages, it’s clear that the author’s purpose extends beyond presenting familiar religious stories. He wants readers to become curious about the historical and spiritual foundations of their faith.
Carrasquillo uses elaborate digital illustrations to bring biblical settings and characters to life, creating scenes filled with dramatic lighting, expressive faces, and impressive architectural detail. The illustrations give the book a cinematic quality, making it easy to imagine the ancient world and the extraordinary events described in Scripture. The narrative sections explore the birth of Yahusha, the Hebrew name used for Jesus throughout the book, as well as the spiritual conflict depicted in the Book of Revelation. These subjects allow Carrasquillo to move between intimate human experiences and grand supernatural imagery. The quieter scenes are particularly effective at conveying emotions such as uncertainty, devotion, compassion, and hope. The heavenly sequences, meanwhile, embrace the visual possibilities of biblical imagery on an enormous scale. Because the story unfolds through illustrations accompanied by concise passages of text, the reading experience feels similar to moving through an illustrated biblical epic.
The book also offers substantial educational material that adds depth to its visual presentation. Two biblical mini-studies examine the significance of God’s name and the doctrine of the Trinity, introducing readers to Hebrew terminology, scriptural interpretation, and theological questions that have occupied scholars for centuries. These sections reveal Carrasquillo’s interest in connecting his Christian beliefs with the cultural and linguistic world of ancient Israel. Readers interested in biblical scholarship will appreciate the references and explanations, although the specialized vocabulary and occasional density of information may require some additional attention. The character profiles are another engaging feature, offering historical context, personality descriptions, and scriptural references for important figures. Carrasquillo also includes personal reflections on his creative process, explaining how the project developed over many years and how modern digital tools helped him realize his artistic vision. These reflections add a welcome personal dimension, revealing the persistence, creativity, and spiritual commitment behind the finished work.
God Almighty: The Beginning of the End will appeal to Christian readers who enjoy visually immersive presentations of Scripture and want to explore biblical teachings in greater detail. It’s especially well suited to readers interested in ancient Hebrew terminology, theology, biblical history, and illustrated religious storytelling. Those who appreciate graphic novels, biblical art, or supplementary materials for personal Bible study may also find plenty to enjoy. The book’s combination of storytelling, scholarship, and striking imagery makes it a useful starting point for conversations about faith and scriptural interpretation. Carrasquillo’s enthusiasm is evident throughout, and his willingness to share both his research and his personal journey gives the work an inviting sincerity. For readers who enjoy seeing familiar biblical passages presented through a thoughtful artistic perspective, this book offers an engaging experience that encourages curiosity, reflection, and further exploration of Scripture.
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Nonfiction
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Why the intellectual instability?
Christian Individualism: The Maverick Biblical Workmanship of Otis Q. Sellers examines the intellectual and spiritual journey of a former Baptist pastor whose independent biblical research challenged established teachings about baptism, salvation, the soul, eternal life, and the Kingdom of God. What first drew you to the life and theological work of Otis Q. Sellers?
I appreciate the question, because to understand a biography, it may help to know what brought the biographer to the task. In my case, it was a (nearly half-century) long and winding road with many pitfalls along the way.
Born in 1953, I was raised Roman Catholic, but in 1979, God’s sovereign grace regenerated me. I had recently broken with Stalinist Communism (1969—1975). Otis Q. Sellers’s New York representative, Gabe Monheim, broadcast Sellers’s thinking on the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Manhattan, near my job. (I tell this story in the book’s preface.) In a few years, however, I began to crave the fleshpots of academia. Questions I now deem dead ends lured me, then a self-important Ph.D. philosophy student, off course. I lay out my Christian alternative to those dead ends in my 2022 Philosophy after Christ: Thinking God’s Thoughts after Him.
In other words, I gave in to “intellectual” pressure (which masked spiritual discord), and only now I see decades of wasted time (to borrow the title of Malcolm Muggeridge’s memoir) in the rearview mirror. Chief among the sidetracking issues was the “problem of evil.” Shortly after the turn of this century, I became a proponent of “open theism,” according to which the future is as unsettled (or “open”) for God as it is for man. That “god,” however, is not the sovereign creator of whatsoever comes to pass, the God of the Bible, the God in whom I believe.
Why the intellectual instability? Why the internal dialectic? In my view, fallen man, of which type I am Exhibit A, is pulled ideologically in opposite directions, and regeneration in Christ does not necessarily exempt him from dialectical strife. Christian history overflows with evidence that the dialectic continues “till Kingdom come.” Christians can, however, prevent its potentially fatal effects by trusting in the Lord and seeking insights from His Word, which need not be a solitary affair.
The Apostle James attributes interpersonal conflict to desires that reflect our fallenness and persist even after regeneration:
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? (James 4:1–2)
Among you. That is, even among the regenerate members of the widely dispersed twelve tribes of Israel. For Christians, division (internal and external) is neither the whole of the story nor its end. Each of us, as individuals, must negotiate the ideological minefields that present themselves. That’s what, in his way, Otis Q. Sellers had to deal with, and I in mine.
What does Sellers’s willingness to sacrifice professional security and religious acceptance reveal about his understanding of personal conviction?
Integrity based on fidelity to the Scriptures was everything for Sellers and impressed me from the beginning. He could not pretend to teach things that didn’t square with his understanding of Scripture, as limited as it then was early in his studies, despite the great love of and enthusiasm for the Word that was already operative in his young adult life.
Even in his early thirties, which correspond to the early thirties of the last century, Sellers (1901-1992) still considered himself a beginner. His spadework in Scripture study still lay ahead of him. He was still looking for more mature Christian leaders to follow. But they all disappointed him, one by one. The willingness your question refers to reveals that the Spirit of God can encourage—give courage to—a believer to pursue the truth of His Word even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
As the Great Depression wore on, the existential question for Sellers was: “Now that I no longer have a pastorate,” and having one was then an enviable situation, “how will I provide for my family?” Any Christian perhaps should ask: “What if I could set aside everything that the world (including its Christian precincts) expects me to profess if that’s where my studies lead me?” Sellers answered that question with his life.
How do you believe Sellers’s example speaks to contemporary Christians who are reconsidering their relationship with denominational institutions or established theological teachings?
His example resonates with them only if they are “epistemologically self-conscious,” that is, if they understand the foundational role divine revelation should play in their lives. Implicit in the mind and heart of every believer is the moral imperative to let Scripture—not inherited tradition, not even ostensibly Bible-believing traditions—regiment their views on everything.
Arriving at this commitment is neither an overnight affair nor something one undertakes casually. It will take years of wrestling with Scripture; I wrestled with Sellers growing realization that many traditional beliefs, especially about “church,” “soul,” “heaven,” “hell,” “baptism,” “the Lord’s Supper,” “eternal life,” and so forth, do not have Scriptural warrant. This is not a matter of marshaling prooftexts, but of immersing oneself in and living with the text, consulting every scholarly resource possible, then presenting the results of one’s labor so others may critically examine its fruit.
What do you hope readers take away from the book’s exploration of truth-seeking, openness to correction, and the personal responsibility involved in studying Scripture?
I hope readers will identify with Sellers in his quest for truth and transpose the particulars of his life to their circumstances. He was a “real person,” not an academic. He learned from academics, but was not in awe of them, and was suspicious of their dependence on those who signed their institutional paychecks. Perhaps my journey in, out of, and back to Sellers’s Bible-illuminating studies, retold in the book, will pique the reader’s curiosity.
By God’s grace, none of my intellectual ups and downs were fatal. By a kind of divine irony, they only served to return me to my starting point, but with a greater appreciation of what I had once enjoyed but foolishly set aside. I can only share with them how that road appears to me in retrospect.
Sellers did not bring “Christian individualism” to his studies: it grew from them, and it’s their fruit that I’ve tried to render in my book’s chapters. Life had beaten the snot out of me: there was, and is, no presumption of intellectual superiority. Having my intellectual frailties exposed no longer immobilized. Rather, I felt strongly that I could start conversations about the Bible in ways others could not. And so, out of that cauldron of internal wrestling arose a strong desire to present my understanding of Otis Q. Sellers’s biblical theology, which I believe deserves a wider audience. Whether I’m apt to teach (1 Tim 3:2; 2 Tim 2:24) is for others to evaluate.
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Consecrating his life to “rightly dividing the Word of Truth,” Sellers followed Scripture beyond the boundaries of inherited doctrine. What he learned about baptism made it impossible for him to remain a Baptist. Over time, traditional teachings about the soul, “born again,” “the Lord’s Supper,” eternal life, and hell also fell before his meticulous study.
In the depths of the Great Depression, Sellers left his pastorate and comfortable home, moving into his parents’ attic with his young family to begin the work that would define the next six decades of his life. Virtually alone, he distinguished Christ’s prophesied world government from His millennial presence on the Earth.
Part biography and part theological excavation, Christian Individualism presents a maverick Bible student who cherished the freedom to study, write, and, when necessary, change his mind. Those seeking a model of Bible study beholden to no denomination or organization will find it in the pages of this book.
By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
James Rondinone’s By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them is a thoughtful and carefully researched examination of one of Christianity’s most consequential questions: How can believers determine whether someone has genuinely received salvation? Drawing extensively from Scripture, theological interpretations, and personal experience, Rondinone explores the relationship between faith, outward conduct, and spiritual transformation. The book takes its title from Matthew 7:20, a biblical passage frequently cited when evaluating the authenticity of someone’s Christian faith. Rondinone examines how different churches interpret this teaching and how those interpretations influence their understanding of salvation. His central concern is the distinction between receiving salvation and demonstrating spiritual growth through one’s actions. By presenting competing theological perspectives, he encourages readers to examine familiar religious teachings with greater care and develop a more informed understanding of their beliefs.
The book is organized around specific behaviors and religious practices that various Christian denominations associate with evidence of salvation. Rondinone addresses good works, tithing, speaking in tongues, habitual sinful behavior, water baptism, and alcohol consumption. Each subject receives substantial attention through biblical passages, historical context, and differing interpretations of key scriptural terms. His discussion of good works is especially representative of the book’s approach. After presenting contrasting interpretations of passages from James, Hebrews, and Romans, he writes, “Good works do not substantiate salvation.” This statement reflects an important distinction explored throughout the text: outward actions may reveal something about a believer’s spiritual development without necessarily establishing the condition of that person’s relationship with God. Rondinone’s method allows readers to see how different theological conclusions can emerge from the same biblical passages, particularly when individual words are interpreted through different doctrinal frameworks.
One of the book’s most engaging qualities is the author’s willingness to incorporate his personal experiences within Christian ministries. Rondinone recounts encounters with church leadership, disagreements over religious requirements, and situations that prompted him to reconsider teachings he had previously accepted. His experiences involving financial giving, baptism, and alcohol consumption give the theological discussions a practical dimension. These accounts illustrate how doctrinal differences can affect relationships, church membership, and individual spiritual journeys. The author’s conversational style also makes complex subjects more approachable. He frequently addresses readers directly, poses questions, and invites them to examine Scripture alongside him. His extensive biblical references and explanatory commentary create a study-oriented reading experience, while the personal anecdotes and supplementary accounts provide welcome variety. Although the detailed examination of individual passages requires concentration, that thoroughness reflects Rondinone’s commitment to treating these questions seriously.
Beyond its examination of specific religious practices, By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them offers a broader consideration of Christian identity, spiritual maturity, and the responsibilities of religious leadership. Rondinone’s discussion of salvation and sanctification brings the book’s central themes into sharper focus, encouraging readers to consider the difference between becoming a Christian and growing in Christian character. His attention to denominational disagreements and the exercise of authority within churches adds another meaningful dimension to the discussion. Throughout the book, he consistently emphasizes personal study and informed spiritual discernment, reminding readers, “What’s left is for you to decide whether good works prove whether someone is saved.” This invitation captures the book’s educational purpose and its respect for the reader’s responsibility to examine theological claims. For Christians interested in biblical interpretation, denominational teachings, and the relationship between faith and conduct, Rondinone provides a substantial resource that encourages careful reflection, independent study, and a more deliberate engagement with Scripture.
Pages: 179 | ASIN: B0GKQ3M258
God Theories
In God Theories, Ken Ungerecht offers a thought-provoking examination of existence, consciousness, and humanity’s relationship with the divine. Drawing on his background in science education and engineering, Ungerecht approaches spiritual questions through a combination of scientific reasoning, mathematical probability, philosophical inquiry, and personal reflection. His central argument is that human existence involves more than physical processes and that consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of reality. The book also reflects his decades-long exploration of spirituality, which began with a shift from agnosticism toward a conviction that a greater intelligence influences the universe. With an accessible, conversational voice, Ungerecht invites readers to reconsider familiar assumptions about life, identity, and the nature of existence. His perspective is captured in one particularly direct statement: “You are not here by accident, you are here for reasons.” This conviction provides the foundation for an ambitious discussion of science and spirituality.
One of the book’s most distinctive features is its use of mathematical probability to examine the circumstances surrounding an individual’s existence. Ungerecht considers the extraordinary number of possible genetic combinations across generations, arguing that the improbability of any particular person being born points toward conscious involvement beyond the physical world. From this foundation, he explores the anthropic principle, quantum physics, matter, energy, thermodynamics, and the origins of consciousness. These discussions build toward his proposal that consciousness exists independently of the human brain and participates in the development of physical reality. His explanations frequently employ everyday comparisons, including lotteries, playing cards, and familiar mechanical processes, to make complicated concepts easier to follow. Although his interpretation of probability and certain scientific principles invites scrutiny, his effort to connect these subjects gives the book a consistent intellectual direction. Readers interested in the relationship between scientific discoveries and metaphysical possibilities will find considerable material to consider.
Ungerecht broadens his examination by comparing classical evolution, intelligent design, and his own proposed model of instinctively directed and consciously driven evolution. He also discusses near-death experiences, reincarnation, psychic phenomena, and the possibility that physical reality operates through processes resembling holographic projection. The revised edition includes a chapter titled “Physical Illusions,” which extends his discussion of matter into questions about the nature of perceived reality. Throughout these sections, Ungerecht draws on scientific figures, spiritual thinkers, and metaphysical writings, creating an interdisciplinary discussion with an unmistakably personal viewpoint. His treatment of these sources occasionally places speculative interpretations alongside established scientific ideas, making careful distinctions important for readers assessing the arguments. Still, the range of material demonstrates the breadth of his curiosity and his determination to explore questions that have occupied philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers for centuries.
Beyond its scientific and philosophical arguments, God Theories carries a strong ethical message about personal responsibility, compassion, and the importance of examining deeply held beliefs. Ungerecht considers how religious divisions, rigid convictions, and competing interpretations of truth contribute to social conflict. He encourages intellectual openness while emphasizing the value of spirituality in developing a more constructive relationship with others and the world. His belief that “The most fundamental truth we can come to know is that we are eternal” informs his reflections on human purpose and the choices people make throughout their lives. The book’s strength lies in the sincerity of its inquiry and its willingness to engage with consequential questions across several disciplines. Its conclusions will inspire agreement, skepticism, and further investigation depending on the reader’s perspective. For those drawn to philosophical discussions of consciousness, spiritual identity, and the intersections of science and faith, God Theories offers a passionate and wide-ranging exploration of what it means to exist.
Pages: 96 | ASIN: B0793SYYBW
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Nonfiction
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Making It Plain: Deconstructing a Fictitious and Vicious Story About Racism
Ronald S. Bonner’s Making It Plain is a faith-rooted examination of racism that brings together history, theology, social science, personal experience, and practical reflection. Bonner establishes his vocabulary early and uses it consistently: White supremacy is the belief in the innate superiority of White people, racism is the system of power that sustains that belief, and bigotry is the hate-filled prejudice that fuels the system. From there, his central argument is that racial hierarchy is a constructed story that became embedded in American institutions, culture, education, and everyday assumptions. Because it was constructed and learned, he believes it can also be dismantled and unlearned. The Christian framework isn’t simply decorative. Bonner repeatedly returns to love, the renewal of the mind, truth-telling, and the moral obligation to reject ideas of human superiority. His larger purpose is practical: he wants readers to understand how these ideas took hold and then become capable of having more honest conversations about race.
The book’s seventeen chapters cover an unusually wide range of territory, moving from the historical construction of race and the economics of enslavement to White privilege, equality and equity, trust, colorblindness, stigmatized language, reparations, racial trauma, conversations between Black parents and their children, bias in artificial intelligence, friendship, and strategies for changing entrenched beliefs. Bonner has a teacher’s instinct for analogy. Highways illustrate the difference between racism, bigotry, and White supremacy; poker hands become a way of explaining unequal starting conditions; a sunburn illustrates the lingering effects of historical injury; “black light vision” describes the ability to see racial patterns that others may miss; and later, “heretical friendships” describe relationships formed across familiar racial and cultural boundaries. The personal stories are especially useful because they move the discussion out of abstraction. His memories of interracial workplace conversations, encounters with police, church life, and conversations with White friends show what his ideas look like in ordinary relationships. The historical photograph and caption documenting the 1892 lynching of four Black men on page 109 also reveal the book’s documentary impulse. Bonner wants readers to encounter the human reality behind the concepts, not just their definitions.
Bonner’s method is cumulative and deliberately repetitive. He keeps returning to a small group of ideas such as bigotry, power, false narratives, trust, language, and learned behavior, examining them from different angles until they form a connected framework. That gives Making It Plain the feel of an extended seminar or church study led by someone who expects the reader to participate. Nearly every chapter closes with review questions, and the writing regularly shifts from historical material to scholarly citations, personal memories, scriptural reflection, contemporary examples, and direct questions to the reader. The strongest passages come when those elements reinforce one another, particularly in the chapters on building trust, reparations as more than financial compensation, “the talk,” and cross-cultural friendship. By the final chapters, the many strands converge around one of Bonner’s clearest convictions: racist narratives can be unlearned, and relationships that cross racial, religious, or ethnic boundaries can play a meaningful role in that process. His voice throughout is pastoral, insistent, personal, and frequently provocative, with the expectation that learning should lead to changed behavior.
I recommend Making It Plain to people who want to explore racial justice through a combination of Christian ethics, American history, personal testimony, and guided discussion. Church groups, adult education classes, community organizations, workplace discussion groups, antiracism facilitators, and book clubs would probably get the most from its structure because the book is designed to generate conversation, not just private reflection. It would also appeal to readers interested in the intersection of faith and racial reconciliation, especially those willing to examine how inherited stories and everyday language shape what people believe about one another. Bonner makes his intended use especially clear at the end, when he challenges readers to have three conversations about race in the coming year and to form three new friendships or acquaintances outside their usual social circle. That closing challenge captures the character of the whole book. Making It Plain is a teaching book about changing minds through historical understanding, honest speech, self-examination, trust, and relationships that make it harder to keep seeing other people through inherited stereotypes.
Pages: 198 | ISBN : 978-1662962165
CONTROVERSIAL: And What Do You Think of Original Sin?
William G. Joseph’s Controversial: And What Do You Think of Original Sin? is a theological inquiry into one of Christianity’s most enduring doctrines, approached through the combined lenses of Scripture, history, science, psychology, and personal experience. The second edition expands the original discussion of original sin into a broader investigation of human evolution, spirituality, personhood, and immortality. Joseph’s central concern is the relationship between traditional Christian teaching and modern knowledge about the physical world. Rather than treating Genesis as a scientific or historical account, he reads its story of Adam and Eve as a myth in the constructive sense, a narrative created to express truths about sin, suffering, death, and humanity’s relationship with God. He makes his purpose clear from the beginning: the book seeks to clarify the questions surrounding original sin while recognizing that definitive answers may remain out of reach.
The first part of the book traces the development of original sin and considers how interpretations of Genesis became increasingly elaborate over centuries of Christian theology. Joseph pays particular attention to Augustine, Church tradition, changing methods of biblical interpretation, and the later influence of scientific discoveries. His recurring argument is that evolution supplies a more coherent account of humanity’s physical and psychological condition than the idea that human nature was fundamentally altered by one primordial act of disobedience. This position is captured in one of the book’s clearest statements: “Humanity is not a fallen species but an evolving species.” Joseph then draws psychology into the discussion, arguing that human selfishness, impulse, moral development, and capacity for relationships can be understood as features of an evolving species. This interdisciplinary approach gives the book much of its energy because theology is continually placed in conversation with discoveries about the world theology is attempting to explain.
The second part carries that reasoning into more speculative territory by asking whether the complete human person, including what Christianity calls the soul or spirit, might itself be the product of evolution. Joseph presents these ideas deliberately as hypotheses. He explores consciousness, free choice, grace, spiritual energy, and the possibility that increasingly complex physical life can produce genuinely trans-physical characteristics such as love, moral judgment, and altruism. His concept of personhood is especially important to this section. Earlier in the book he writes, “Relationships are the essence of personhood,” and the later chapters develop that insight into a view of human beings as physical, psychological, social, and spiritual persons whose identities emerge through freedom and relationship. The discussion of immortality therefore grows naturally from the book’s larger argument: Joseph asks whether the personal and relational dimension that emerges through evolution might have a destiny beyond the death of the body.
Controversial is an ambitious work of theological reflection shaped by Joseph’s desire to make Christian thought responsive to contemporary knowledge. Its style is conversational and frequently personal, with scientific examples, historical episodes, theological sources, humor, and autobiographical recollections used to make difficult subjects accessible. Joseph is most persuasive when he shows how doctrines develop within particular historical circumstances and asks how those doctrines should be reconsidered when human understanding changes. His later hypotheses about spirit and immortality require more speculation, but he openly identifies their provisional character, which fits the intellectual method he advocates throughout the book. The result is a sustained argument for a Christianity that understands creation as an evolutionary process and human beings as participants in that continuing creation. The closing “Hymn to Creator” gives that argument a devotional conclusion, bringing the book’s scientific and theological themes together in an expression of gratitude for a universe in which consciousness, freedom, love, and relationship have emerged.
Pages: 129 | ASIN : B0FZ2V2N1Z
