Comets, Jews and Christians: Scientists and Bible-Believers Confront the Greatest Threat to Our Survival

by John Hulley

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963091700
• ISBN13: 9780963091703
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Root & Branch
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

Mind-Bending Stuff

After meeting John Hulley personally and discovering a rapier wit and dry sense of humor behind his beard of biblical proportions, I decided to give his book a shot. I was not disappointed. In straightforward style, Hulley presents statistics regarding the possibility of an earth-rocking asteroid collision. He admits it's not likely, but it is possible. With this possibility lurking in the cosmos, scientists and astronomers are already on the lookout for dangers and solutions. Hulley proposes in the second half of this book that Jews and Christians may be the key to scientific breakthroughs and progress. In essence, the moral codes and biblical ethics which support these two groups may lead to the salvation of mankind. Some may balk at his assertions. Others may laugh. Those who are willing to be objective will find some mind-bending stuff here, ideas worth weighing in their historical context. If you like to think outside the box, if you care about our planet, then "Comets, Jews and Christians" is a book worth reading. The writer is no quack. He is a highly intelligent man, a Harvard grad, with former positions in the US government and the World Bank. He'll challenge you with his concepts.

Religion gets practical

In volume one of what promises to be a series of explosive books, researcher John Hulley first utterly convinces his readers that they are living in a cosmic "shooting gallery" -- liable to be wiped out at virtually any moment by a wayward comet or asteroid. For those familiar with astronomy, the extensive references to such collisions in the past, and/or involving other planets in our solar system, is not news.What IS news, however, is the way in which Hulley connects this most "worldly" of worldly matters to the Bible in general, and to the people -- Jews and Christians -- who make the Bible the focus of their lives, in particular. It is Hulley's contention -- well-supported by scriptural references -- that one of God's primary purposes in "choosing" a group of people to call His own was to provide the planet and the life on it with a guardian... an agency able to defend it against global dangers... a group of people spiritually and intellectually equipped to see the "big picture" and act on that vision.But what will be most surprising to many readers -- and perhaps objectionable to some -- is Hulley's argument as to who these people are, and how that guardianship is to be put into practical effect.Drawing on 40 years of ground-breaking research that covered both ancient history and modern statistics, Hulley makes a compelling case for his central point: that these "guardians of humanity" include not only Jews who are known as such, but Bible-believing (as opposed to Bible-quoting, or Bible-exploiting) Christians. In a tantalizing hint at the end of this first book, Hulley promises to prove in future volumes that these Christians are in fact descendants of the "Ten Lost Tribes" of Judaism, that their history and destiny have been divinely supervised all along, and that it is now time for them to shoulder the burden for which they were created.Hulley's book is an eye-opener in many ways, and should be read by all those who feel they are travelling through life "blind" -- unaware of their purpose here.