Divine or Distorted?: God as We Understand God

by Jerry Seiden

God is good! Jerry Seiden wrote "Divine or Distorted?: God As We Understand God" because of the transformation that took place in his own life as a result of working the 12-Steps of Alcoholics... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941405192
• ISBN13: 9780941405195
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Recovery Publications
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Very Healing Book

This book was so helpful to me in terms of coming to grips with a loving, compassionate God instead of the judgmental , harsh one of my childhood. I highly recommend this book to anyone searching for God in their life.

God the father not father the God

Divine or Distorted is a writing that really helps define the misconceptions about our perceptions of God. I feel a lot of people look at their fathers and misinterpret the concept of a Heavenly Father. I had a friend who said she couldn't pray Our Father which are in Heaven, because if God was anything like her father she didn't want anything to do with him. This book Divine or Distorted helped me put the right perspective of who exactly God is and why we get bogged down with wrong perspectives of him through our parents, church and our fears. When my father died my sisters and brothers all stood in a circle holding hands and prayed the Lords Prayer and I really got choked up when we said Our Father which art in Heaven, because I really felt at that time it was true. My father was in heaven, but my Heavenly Father was already there to greet my earthly father when the time came. Father in deed! And Father with the deed to the Universe and my soul. When I looked at my earthly father in the casket I felt like no matter how good a man he was that he was disappointed with me and I could never please him, but I know now that My Heavenly Father loves me no matter what and he forgives me. There are a couple of the stories that really stand out in this book. `What's wrong with you?' made me cry with it's example of how our short comings bring the wrath of our earthly fathers, but God still loves and forgives us. `The boy who could do anything' made me happy to read how one boy was encouraged by his loving father as a child, which gave him the courage to achieve higher goals in life. `Birthdays lost' was an adorable fable like story with a lot of truth in it. It shows how we can be fooled into thinking other people have more control over our lives than God. We need to quite listening to the wrong voices and listen to God. This one is easy to make us laugh at the stupidly of some people, but does give us some pause to see if we are just as gullible as they are. I recommend this book very much. It is both entertaining and enlightening.