More Than a Carpenter
by Josh McDowell

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Book Review: This book gets life-changing RESULTS!
Summary: 5 Stars

While in the US Air Force, I was stationed on Guam, where a friend of mine had a copy of this book, which he had borrowed from a friend. He explained a little about it and told me he really enjoyed reading it. He said that his own faith was greatly increased. I thought that sounded pretty good, so I asked him to let me borrow it. I did, it was awesome, my own faith grew tremendously,and I couldn't help but to tell another friend of mine all about it. So, this next friend borrowed it, he thought it was great, it made a great impression on him (he was a newborn Christian, at the time, and 12 years later he still has a very close walk with the Lord), and then a friend of his borrowed it! So, finally we had to get the book passed back up the food chain, from friend to friend to friend to friend to friend, just to get it back into the hands of the original owner (I can only assume that he hadn't borrowed it, too). That was around 1989 or 1990.

12 years later, I was thinking about how great of an impact that little paperback book had on me and was telling my wife how grateful I was to have ever come across it. She decided to buy 18 copies of it for me, for Christmas. So I gave copies to some family members and friends from work.

A recent incident was a few months ago. One night as I was leaving work, I decided to give a copy to a guy who is a supervisor (not mine), but because the lights were being turned out and everyone was expected to leave for the night, I didn't have time to write a note to him explaining where the book came from and why (like I wanted to), so I just left it on his desk. The next day he was sent to a different floor of the building, so I didn't see him again until 3 weeks later, when I was also moved to the same floor. When we first saw each other, I had forgotten all about giving him the book. I noticed that he was far more chipper than in the past and he had a plastic Jesus on top of his computer monitor. Here was a guy who, not too long before, I'd seen wearing a Metallica t-shirt and sometimes could get edgy over seemingly trivial things. A couple of minutes later, I remembered leaving that book and went and told him that I was the one who left it and explained how I didn't have time to leave a note. At first his eyes got big, which made me think for a second that he was angry with me; but then his face really lit up with happiness and surpise (that it was me). He said, "That was the best little book I have ever read in my life!" He couldn't stop thanking me and said that his whole life has changed and that book had a lot to do with it. Since the last time I had seen him, he had been baptized and even married! He said that he now attends church services 3 times a week, too. He thought for sure that either his wife or one of her friends had left it for him to find. But, of course, she insisted that she did NOT! So, finally the mystery was solved for him. Now, I can't wait to buy some more to give away, as I believe the Lord leads me to do so. I already have a few more people in mind that I think would really like it and benefit from it.

The book is easy to read and understand, not too long, and just gets right to the point. The point being that Jesus claimed to be More than a carpenter. He dogmatically claimed to be God. Either he was lying, was delusional, or else he was telling the truth. Only one of those 3 options allows for one to say that he was a great teacher. So, if someone wants to say that they don't believe that Jesus is God, then they should not also say that he was great teacher (as a lot of people do).

It's explained that the odds of one person fulfilling all of the Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah to come, as Jesus did, is so mathematically improbable, that it is obvious that Jesus IS who he said that he is (It would require a whole lot MORE faith, and of the BLIND variety, to believe other-wise, after learning this). McDowell has a mathematician to give an example of what the odds are of one person fulfulling them all. The example given is something like, if you filled the entire state of Texas with coins 8 feet deep and only 1 had a special mark, Jesus would have had to have picked that 1, on the 1st try.

I think this book is kind of like NIKE shoes. JUST READ IT! :-)

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