God According to God

A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

By: Gerald Schroeder

Narrated by: Tom Parks

In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Fans of Jack Miles' God: A Biography, Francis Collins' The Language of God, and Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible will find much to contemplate in God According to God.

©2009 Gerald L. Schroeder (P)2020 Tantor

Brilliance

I could not stop listening! Dr. Schroeders’ work is compellingly comprehensive. A renown academic scholar of the sciences (primarily physics). Dr. Schroeder vehemently, and unapologetically includes the dissenting arguments of his scholarly peers past and present. His lifelong rabbinical teachings, acumen, and love for Torah weaves two distinctive platforms into a “oneness” most worthy of our attention.

Next to the bibke itself, my most important book

Its hard to overestimate the importance of this book in our world.

The most basic and deep questions we all, at least most of us humans ask, are here detailed, then answered, with specific physics, as is best understood today. This understanding may or may not change in the future.... there are a myriad of scientists trying desperately to prove Einstein wrong for example...but based upon what is believed to be known today, this book is the clearest and cleanest path towards understanding ourselves, planet, universe, and the existence and character of the being that created it all... we term "God", and He names Himself " יהוה".

New perspective but also missed perspective

I disagree with this particular author, in much of his deductions of why things happen to people like Abraham or his understanding of the Akida that is the offering of Isaac, he does provide some new insights that I hadn’t considered, but there are a number of things that I feel his perspective missed not only the ones above, but also the story of the Nephilim as the reason for the flood.
Abraham essentially names, the place that he offered Isaac in the amount of the Lord and shall be seen the Lord said that he would offer himself as a sacrifice, I think that if you are going to listen to or read this book, you need to have a great degree of biblical literacy to sift the true from the mundane.
Aside from all of the above, I disagree with his assessment of the creation at the very beginning of the book I believe the creation happened precisely the way the Lord said it did in Genesis one, and that evolution has nothing to do with it, and that we are not millions or billions of years old . Although the millions or billions of years old can be explained or reduced by the expansion factor, I still say it only took six days. I disagree with the idea that God can either make mistakes or learn, although I do agree with the assessment that God wants to commune with his people, and therefore has been turned away from his wrath by the intercession of Abraham or Moses or number of other characters in the Bible.
But he did give a disclaimer at the beginning, saying that if you want the biblical representation of creation that part of the book was not for you . If you are well-versed in scripture, it’s a worthwhile read. If you are not I would recommend other books.