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The Vintage Club
by Darin Gibby
**Received this book in a Goodreads Giveaway**
The book overall was a good book in terms of writing, action, and suspense. My one-star rating is because I don't feel right about giving it anything higher due to some of the content. Let me explain:
The premise is that the Vintage Club members believe that the wine Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper gave eternal life. That they could find the grape seeds or particular grape vine from which the wine was made to create the elixir to live forever (on Earth, might I add, which is grossly short-sighted). I'm not sure of the author's intent in writing this book- whether he actually believes the 'legends' presented in this book or if he was just writing a creative story. But I have issue with what the book depicts. For starters- they say Jesus was a god, not God, which goes against everything the Bible teaches...
Plus they're missing the best part of the Gospel! God sent his Son to earth to live the perfect life we never could and die the death we all deserve so that we could spend eternity with them in Heaven. Christ's sacrifice and our salvation is not based on us- whether we're good enough, loving enough, self-sacrificing enough, wise enough. No, it is a gift we don't deserve and can't earn. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" and "whoever comes to me I will never cast out." (John 14:6; 6:37) There is only way to eternal life and if you desire it, He will never turn you away. And it is not through the bread and the wine that we obtain it, but "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) What great news for us- we don't have to do good works and cross our fingers that they outweigh our sins! He died "once for all" (Romans 6:10) and we need only to accept his gift!
Regardless of his intent in writing this story, I think it demeans Christ's sacrifice to even pretend that Jesus, eternal life, and the Gospel is anything other than the truths Scripture tells us. And for that, I give one star because I can't rightly recommend a book that twists the truths of the Bible- regardless of motivation.
The book overall was a good book in terms of writing, action, and suspense. My one-star rating is because I don't feel right about giving it anything higher due to some of the content. Let me explain:
The premise is that the Vintage Club members believe that the wine Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper gave eternal life. That they could find the grape seeds or particular grape vine from which the wine was made to create the elixir to live forever (on Earth, might I add, which is grossly short-sighted). I'm not sure of the author's intent in writing this book- whether he actually believes the 'legends' presented in this book or if he was just writing a creative story. But I have issue with what the book depicts. For starters- they say Jesus was a god, not God, which goes against everything the Bible teaches...
Plus they're missing the best part of the Gospel! God sent his Son to earth to live the perfect life we never could and die the death we all deserve so that we could spend eternity with them in Heaven. Christ's sacrifice and our salvation is not based on us- whether we're good enough, loving enough, self-sacrificing enough, wise enough. No, it is a gift we don't deserve and can't earn. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" and "whoever comes to me I will never cast out." (John 14:6; 6:37) There is only way to eternal life and if you desire it, He will never turn you away. And it is not through the bread and the wine that we obtain it, but "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) What great news for us- we don't have to do good works and cross our fingers that they outweigh our sins! He died "once for all" (Romans 6:10) and we need only to accept his gift!
Regardless of his intent in writing this story, I think it demeans Christ's sacrifice to even pretend that Jesus, eternal life, and the Gospel is anything other than the truths Scripture tells us. And for that, I give one star because I can't rightly recommend a book that twists the truths of the Bible- regardless of motivation.