Lies We Believe About God -

William Paul Young

Simon & Schuster

2016

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 1471152383

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5 (Perfeito)

This book doesn’t offer easy answers.
It pokes where religion said “don’t touch.”
It whispers grace where shame used to shout.
It flips sacred cows and burns false altars — all while holding your hand like a gentle, wounded friend. 🙏🔥

Paul Young doesn’t set out to teach theology.
He’s here to blow up the lies we didn’t know we believed.

Lies like:
✖ “God loves us, but doesn’t like us.”
✖ “God is good. I’m not.”
✖ “Sin separates us from God.”
✖ “God is disappointed in me.”
✖ “Not everyone is a child of God.”
✖ “The Cross was God’s idea.”
✖ “Hell is separation from God.”
✖ “God only wants to use me.”
✖ “God is in control.”
✖ “God is more ‘He’ than ‘She.’”
✖ “God loves me for my potential.”
✖ “God is a Christian.”
✖ “Death is more powerful than God.”
✖ “God is a magician.”
✖ “God blesses my politics.”
✖ “God wants to be a priority.”
✖ “God started my religion.”
✖ “God requires child sacrifice.”
✖ “God stands far from suffering.”
✖ “God is One alone.”
✖ “Sin ruins everything. Forever.”
✖ “You need to get saved.”
✖ “God is disappointed when I fail.”
✖ “God is like Santa Claus, watching and rewarding.”
✖ “That was just a coincidence.”
✖ “God doesn’t care about what I’m passionate about.”

And so many more.

In place of those lies, this book offers something scandalous:

✔ A God who doesn’t flinch at your questions
✔ A love that doesn't withdraw when you mess up
✔ A relationship that outlasts doctrine, shame, even death
✔ A faith that breathes, bleeds, and makes all things new 🕊️🌍

This isn’t a book about getting the right beliefs.
It’s about being undone by love.
Love that refuses to give up on you.
Love that doesn’t wait for your performance.
Love that enters the pain, the doubt, the real.

Final thoughts?
If what you believe about God isn’t making you more loving,
more human,
more whole —
you might be believing a lie.
This book? It’ll help you find the truth underneath. 📖🖤