Book Reviews Rating 1-5 Stars:

Bones of Contention
by Marvin L. Lubenow

This book is subtitled “ A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils”.  

Bones of Contention is a semi-technical read and very informative.  If you are seeking for a scientific  treatise on the truth about the fossil record, this is it.  This book  truly describes the evolutionists scrambling for scientific permission to reject belief in God.  Their dubious “faith” is exposed in a chapter euphemistically titled, “A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups”

Every supposed “missing-link” is summarily dispatched to the garbage heap of fraud or negligence.  This is a systematic plucking down of the evolutionist stronghold as relating to “human evolution”.  The findings?  There is absolutely no evidence that man evolved from anything. In fact, the evidence, when correctly deduced exhibits exactly the opposite.  And exposes the fact that all every “scientific fact” is either contrived, or outright fraudulent.  

This book also addresses the “new problem” for evolutionists, that is, the racists factor.  Thus their mad scramble to prove the “African Eve” theory.  It is no secret that the end of Darwinian evolution must needs be a racist one.  This is evident and has already been played out in history.  Hitler is not the only example.  Even in the US, the influence of eugenics was a direct result of the teaching and belief in Darwinian natural selection.  That was a travesty.  

Read Bones of Contention.  You will marvel at the truth of Romans 1.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:  21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,    –  Romans 1:19-22

The Christian Family
by Larry Christenson

All in all a good treatise on the roll and responsibility of a Christian Family.  Much can be gleaned from Christenson’s presentation.   

While Christenson addresses many issues which need to be addressed in this age, there is some concern about his view on holiness and separation.  For instance he readily admits the necessity of obedience in his statement, “God has made the well-being and happiness of the family absolutely dependent upon the observance of His divinely appointed order.”  But then denies that order in his apparent acceptance of such things as dating, frequenting the movie house, etc.  He appears to sometimes be confused as to what “observance of His divinely appointed order” is.

He tells the story of a woman who was thinking to go to work outside the home because of the family’s need of extra finances.   His counsel to her was that her children needed her at home more than they needed the extra money.  This is true enough, but what is the center of  motive here?  At her husbands return home that day he expressed concerns and decided it was not the right thing to do for her to go to work.  From here I quote from the book.

“That seemed a clear confirmation of God’s will,” she said later, “and I accepted it...”  The worry left.  She saw clearly what Jesus had to say about it, and she let Him take charge of it.

Did they come to the right decision?  Yes.  Did they take the right train?  No.  Surely, a woman should remain in the home but not because someone expressed the needs of the children or that the husband had “bad vibes” about it.  Is this what “Jesus had to say about it”?  A woman should remain in the home because the Bible plainly states so.

4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,   5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.      Titus 2:4-5

My advice?  Read the book.  Maybe you could stop with Part One and leave Part Two for the Charismatics, and other liberal “Christians”.  Real Christians will find much out of order, out of “His divinely appointed order” particularly in this section.

To be sure this is by no means the tone of the whole book.  He does establish Biblical roles as to the father and husband, mother and wife, and the children.  As stated much good, Biblical teaching, principles and precepts can be gleaned from Christenson.  

I gave “The Christian Family” three stars because Christenson does seem to shoot himself in the foot on occasion.

The Christian Family is a good read, if read with caution.