Book Review of "The World-Tilting Gospel" part 2

Dan Phillips' first book, The World-Tilting Gospel, is an engaging book.  I addressed this in the first post of my feeble book review.  In this post I want to review chapter 1, Knowing God and Man.  Here Phillips addresses a combination of the doctrines of man (anthropology) and sin (hamartiology) from a Godward perspective.  The position set forth on this pages is rare these days.  The author reminds us that one's presuppositions regarding self-awareness and self-image have consequences.

Phillips describes three common but deficient views of people and sin.  He follows this section with the Biblical view that we are all Jacob at heart.  His explanation of the text of Jeremiah 17:9 is helpful, handling the texts (both English and Hebrew) quite well.  While doing so he warns the reader of the deleterious dangers of self-diagnosis.

With clarity, Phillips writes of the Bible: It is God’s unalloyed, inerrant disclosure of Himself, and His diagnosis of the human condition. What the Bible says, God says. [Dan Phillips (2011-07-14). The World-Tilting Gospel (p. 37). Kregel Publications. Kindle Edition.]  He then pursues the Biblical data from both the Old and New Testament.  Without this view of man and sin, we are left to our own subjective,  erroneous, and dangerous opinions.

Thankfully the author does not drop the issue at this point.  He explains how things got the way they are in chapter 2, What Happened in the Garden.