A review of the book BEWARE OF HYPOCRISY

I agreed to review a book for Mike Morrel at Speakeasy.com in exchange for receiving a free copy of the book.  Of course the TITLE of the BOOK in what intrigued me and the subtitle "Who is Teaching Us What?". Its a very small book (just under 60 pages and not full size) and I ready it fairly quickly.

I'm going to break it down for you concisely to save time and effort on your end.

PROS: He covers some important history of the church stuff and how doctrines were formulated.
He points out that the church has done some really stupid stuff as far as making stuff up to fill in the blanks where scripture doesn't really spell it out.  Mostly he used the Catholic Church as his target of criticism in such issues as infallibility of the pope, Christology, indulgences, etc. He talks about how some scriptures were added to text later in the life of the church. I agree with that skepticism.  He is intelligent and thinks things through.

CONS: the author is a little more fundamental that I am. Literal applications of certain scripture is difficult for me to swallow. He prefers the King James Version and its my least favorite.  He is pretty hardline on Marriage & Adultery sections, although he makes an argument based upon scripture and Jesus' message compared to old testament.  I think some issues need to be viewed in light of new information.

Overall its worth the read and I did learn something from it.  I just wouldn't say its a must read or paradigm shifting in nature.

~npp