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Title: Eli by Bill Myers ISBN: 0-310-21803-9 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (57 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A VERY Moving Story!
Comment: Bill Myers has a talent for writing that I haven't found in anyone else. This story is so very real, and so very deep. This book really brings Jesus home...to what it would be like if He had come to us in our day and time. Would you follow Him? Or would you, as many did, label Him as a cult leader? It is something that you find yourself wondering as you read this wonderfully written story. Bill Myers has successfully integrated the Gospel story of the Bible that many of us know so well into today's world. This could not have been an easy task...but Bill does it! This book just pulls you in and doesn't let go...so many emotions went through me as a read. The joy that is found in Jesus...the confusion, the sometimes difficult struggle that we have trying to follow Him...and finally...the utter realization of the sacrifice that He made for us...His death for our sins. Words cannot do justice to this book...BUY IT...READ IT! It WILL change your outlook...for the better. You will come away refreshed!
Rating: 4
Summary: Radical and Challenging Fiction
Comment: In ELI, best-selling author Bill Myers asks the question, "what if Jesus had been born 2000 years later?" The concept is familiar to readers of the book JOSHUA, but Myers' execution puts ELI at a higher level than JOSHUA ever reached.
ELI's story revolves around the character of journalist Conrad Davis, who is thrown from our world into a parallel reality thanks to a coma-inducing auto accident. Davis soon realizes, even though he is not a Christian, that everything about this new reality is the same, save for the fact that no one had the faintest clue who Jesus Christ was. Through his work and his ex-wife he happens upon a controversial figure named Eli, and soon parallels between Eli and the person of Jesus begin to appear. Conrad is taken with what Eli represents and he takes a leave of absence from work to become one of his followers.
What results is a modern day enactment of the ministry years of Jesus; specifically His passion week. Myers freely admits at the beginning of the book that this story is a work of fiction. But this fiction has the familiar ring and power of Biblical truth. Because in changing the setting of the story of Jesus, Myers has given it a contemporary and radical edge that strikes at one's preconcieved notions and ideas about the character of Jesus and the world He was born into. Though Myers does take some literary freedom in the translation, the end result is quite sound. I found it much harder to point a finger at the Pharisees and unfaithful disciples after reading this book because the story's concept forced me to put myself in their shoes and, in this modern situation, I realized that I wasn't sure that I would fare any better than they did.
In the end, ELI succeeds precisely because of that radical twist. The afore mentioned JOSHUA showed us that we, who are so comfortable with our ideas of Jesus, would probably find him just as much of an outlaw if He came today. ELI accomplishes the same thing but takes it further by forcing us to look at the bigger picture and apply the lessons He taught to our modern world in a surprising new light. In the story's end Conrad is forced to make a hard decision about Eli. The reader hopefully will be just as challenged in their walk with Christ. A fast-paced, thought-provoking read: Four stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good.
Comment: I liked the story and it made me look at Jesus story in a different way. Very good attempt.
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Title: Blood of Heaven by Bill Myers ISBN: 0310201195 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 10 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Fire of Heaven by Bill Myers ISBN: 0310217385 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Threshold by Bill Myers ISBN: 0310201209 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 10 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Face of God, The by Bill Myers ISBN: 0310227550 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: In His Image (The Christ Clone Trilogy, Book 1) by James BeauSeigneur ISBN: 0446531251 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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