The Great Lie:
What All of Hell Wants
You to Keep Believing
DETAILS:
Publisher: Truth Ablaze
Publication Date: September 12, 2022
Format: Paperback
Length: 190 pg.
Read Date: September 18-25, 2022
The great lie is that God is not everywhere and always present in his world.
What’s The Great Lie About?
Hibbs takes as his starting point that God is everywhere present in His world, and given his communicated nature—He is always speaking to us, through both the Creation and His Word. But since the temptation (and then fall) of Adam and Eve, the enemy wants us to think His presence is irrelevant (if He’s present). This is the Great Lie.
Hibbs spends five chapters establishing (or refreshing) the theological framework here—reminding us who God is and how He constantly is communicating to humanity, what the Great Lie is, and how we see it in Genesis 3 and worked out in the lives of some individuals as recorded in Scripture.
The second half of the book then looks at how that looks in our lives today—in the world around us, our words, our thoughts, and our actions. Then he looks at God’s response to this Great Lie.
So, what did I think about The Great Lie?
This pairs nicely with his In Divine Company, building on the idea of God’s communicative nature. This time, applying that in a different direction, but keeping the same central concern.
That alone made this book worth the read for me, I’d thought a little about how to apply thinking of God in those terms to other areas of life after reading the work on prayer, but hadn’t gotten as far as I should have. This book helps see the battle with sin through that lens—not in an exhaustive sense, but in a very real and helpful sense.
It’s incredibly practical and assuring while being grounded in thoughtful theology (as any Christian teaching should be as it aims for practically). This really doesn’t do anything new—Hibbs has no novel teaching. But he frames this in a way we’re not used to thinking about it—and that’s refreshing and challenging at the same time.
Paired with Hibbs’ characteristic clear prose and gift with language and illustrations, it’s a winner of a book. Check it out for sure.
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