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I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life Gregg ~ About the Author Gregg A Ten Elshof is professor of philosophy at Biola University La Mirada California His book I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life won the Christianity Today 2009 Book Award in the Christian Living category

I Told Me So The Role of SelfDeception in Christian Living ~ Then this book is really for you Scripture is peppered with talk of selfdeception and its poisonous effects on the pursuit of holy living Christians in the past thought long and hard about the ways we deceive ourselves They called on selfdeception to explain a wide range of problems in Christian experience

I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life by ~ Christian thinkers through the ages have had a special interest in the bearing of selfdeception on the Christian life and the pursuit of — or flight from — God and it has long served as a key element in the explanation of sin moral failure and the avoidance of God

I Told Me So The Role of Selfdeception in Christian ~ This was a really good book that served to remind me quite a bit of how dangerous and prevalent selfdeception is in the Christian life and how much we need to watch out for it in our own lives This book had everything it was short sweet and to the point

I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life ~ In some instances maybe in a cancer patient hope might be considered a selfdeception and yet that very “deception” is necessary to life And as for group dynamics consider these wise words “The occasion to have a safe and thoughtful discussion with someone who genuinely loves you and disagrees with you passionately is a rare and precious gift

I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life ~ Christians in the past thought long and hard about the ways we deceive ourselves They called on selfdeception to explain a wide range of problems in Christian experience Strangely though selfdeception has all but disappeared from our consciousness today We rarely admit to the possibility of deceiving ourselves in any area of our lives

I Told Me So Self Deception in the Life of the Christian ~ Second selfdeception is as Ten Elshof put it “an unexpected friend in time of need” Again Ten Elshof While the truth is often freeing it is not always so The truth can be utterly crippling and lifedestroying for the person not positioned to receive it

I Told Me So SelfDeception and the Christian Life ~ Most provocatively he suggests this is not all bad While naming its temptations Ten Elshof also offers a ‘strange celebration’ of selfdeception as a gracious gift In the tradition of Dallas Willard I Told Me So is a wonderful example of philosophy serving spiritual discipline A marvelous accessible and above all wise book”—