In addition to being a strong defender of salvation for all, Peter in this book offers some theology that many of you may not have considered that ties in really well.
I have not read this yet, but did watch the video. One things seems very much in common for men - Once they become a father, they see God differently. I know I did. Someone who isn’t a father can’t understand a fathers love for their children. They might acknowledge such love exists, but they cannot understand it. What strikes me as strange, is that so many fathers don’t see it! Anyhow, Peter Hiett has a gift.
Absolutely agreed - to all you said, especially the comments about fatherhood. Looking back through my own years of being a father, I can see how the shift was taking place for me all along, and how it might not have happened had I been deprived of the presence of my own children. And for as much as I have personally gleaned from the monasteries in the way of guidance for “the faith lived,” I still think the principal deficiency in a celibate life is the lack of this very insight. I’ve said to people many times that, short of receiving some miraculous revelation or ecstatic experience, you cannot really know what God is like until you’ve had your own children. It’s not for nothing that God has revealed himself as “Father,” and Jesus as “bridegroom.” When you’ve been one or both of those yourself, with most people the answer to the question will be immediately forthcoming: “What would you do to win their love, or save them from…whatever?”
“Why, anything at all, of course.”
“And would you ever stop trying?”
“Never!”
So it must be with God…else this whole life is a farcical counterfeit…