Before The Flood edition by John Sherman Religion Spirituality eBooks
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An atheist journalist in San Francisco receives an invitation to tell the story of a young street artist claiming to be the Second Coming of Christ. Despite his misgivings, the reporter accepts the assignment and begins to learn more about this young man’s life. As he delves deeper into the story, the journalist slowly begins to believe in the boy’s sincerity, but the more he uncovers, the more unsettled he becomes as he starts to ask unanswerable questions – has this boy been sent from above? If so, has he come to save us from our sins or punish us for them?
Before The Flood edition by John Sherman Religion Spirituality eBooks
Extraordinary, well crafted story of what seems to be a new SON OF GOD come to prepare us for the last days. Disciples are all misfits and for some reason one is left wondering where the author got his inspiration. Added: Does he know something we don't? Tell us, John Sherman. Why are you not discovered yet?Product details
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Before The Flood edition by John Sherman Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
No matter what your background is, where you live, or whether you are religious or not, most people are fully aware that predictions about the end times have been around for as long as any of us have lived...and before that. Some call it the Apocalypse. The basic question is whether or not the world we live in will be destroyed, disappear... You may have read at least one or more books about it and certainly have gone through the period of those times when predictions have occurred, the last, I think, was 2012.
And, of course, we are still here... Still, there seems to be a need, a burning desire, even, to know what the future holds for humans... I've enjoyed a number of novels on the topic, but this one, I think, is my favorite so far...and, perhaps, the most realistic??? The setting in San Francisco, well, it seemed like right from today's news...is it?
This book would be considered to be written based upon the Christian Bible. A main character is a journalist, an atheist who was known for routine articles questioning or sarcastic toward Christianity, and also the son of an Episcopal Priest, so he was early versed in that book. But once he became involved in what happens, he took the time to study all of the world's religions and their "main characters."
Another main character is also a priest of the Episcopal Church, When they first met, she asked him to call her Beth...and then began to interview him, which he thought was quite funny since he was the journalist who was supposed to be doing the interview.
After they had determined that he would be involved, Beth began her story. Basically, any Christian reader will see an immediate parallel to the early life of Jesus. I'm not going to spend much time on that, except to say that, a baby boy was left at the door of Beth's church and when she had picked him up, three boys who looked like gang members said the baby was to be hers. Beth named him Manuel.
From the time he was brought to the first service, people from all races, the homeless and the rich, began to come...sitting by him first and moving outward...
All of the miracles of Jesus turning water into wine, healing...and more began before he was even 10. By that time, A man named Eli had met Manuel and explain to Beth that he had been waiting to meet him. All of those involved with the child had been dreaming of what was to come... Eli was much more capable of teaching Manuel, especially when they realized that he was begin to paint... Eli, also a painter, taught him everything and more... and it wasn't until he was killed that Manuel began to change... Manuel's choice of artistry had been using spray cans...and much of his work soon appeared on the walls in the mission area, but they soon became much darker, threatening of hell's fire, after Eli was killed.
In the materialistic world of today where name brands such as Calvin Klein are "must-wear" for young people, together with the latest electronic equipment, where gods of music and social media seem to rule, etc., it was to the poor--those diseased by drink and drugs or starving--who were those ministered by Manuel. It was when he wanted to minister directly on the street that it happened...
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Suddenly, Manuel had The Man's--Arius, in this novel--attention... and his followers began to be killed, one by one...
There was only one issue that bothered me somewhat in this book and it is near the end. But, the overall issue that came across was that Manuel was attacking a world that belonged to someone else. He had left his home and came to invade a world that was being handled quite well and totally responsive to Arius wishes. If you read it, I'll give you my opinion on this scene,if asked
I'm going to say this is almost a thriller, at least it comes across that way because of the later activities. Are you willing to see today's world welcome the end of the world??? Not an easy book to read if you believe...if not, enjoy a well-written thriller with San Francisco's mission area as the setting...
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This is a book about the second coming. It follows Thomas, a jaded reporter, addict, and preacher’s son, as he unravels the story around a mysterious boy named Manny. At first, Thomas’s primary source is Beth, Manny’s adopted mother, but Thomas’s compulsive need to know the truth pulls him deeper until he encounters Manny, his disciples, and those trying to destroy them. The ultimate conflict, though, is whether Thomas will allow himself to believe.
If you aren’t a fan of religious themes, this isn’t the book for you. If those don’t turn you off, then it’s a well written rendition of the second coming that does a better job than most of avoiding condescension and excessive sermonizing. That said, two issues keep the book from standing out. First, the story is straightforward and feels more inevitable than it does interesting. Second, its framing as a series of flashbacks and quasi-parables deprives the book of any sense of immediacy. Although individual scenes are enjoyable, the whole ends up being flat.
There aren’t any unexpected turns in the narrative. Manny is the second coming whose purpose is to eventually punish mankind for its sins, Thomas is an atheist-via-abuse whose finds his faith again, and Beth is the mother struggling with her child’s divinity. There are apostles, the devil, and trials which test Manny’s commitment and faith, but everything plays out how you would expect it to.
It’s a shame that’s the case, because the book is full of small, thoughtful moments that inject more compassion than one would usually expect in this kind of story. It’s far more about the struggles of faith than it is hellfire and punishment. In fact, the only self-righteous character is the devil.
The story’s framing robs the book of most of its vitality. Instead of riding along on Thomas’s shoulder as he went deeper into the rabbit hole, I felt like I was reading his diary. This put an unnecessary amount of distance between the reader and the story, and since Thomas is about as textbook a lost-his-faith-and-finds-it-again character as he can be, the author really couldn’t afford to frame the story in a detached way.
The problems with the novel are a shame because I feel there was a more interesting story to be told. If the author had been willing to subvert the second coming narrative instead of dressing it in new clothes, or had told it from a different perspective, he could have done much more with it. Unfortunately, because each segment of the story was a parable with a predictable outcome, no amount of good writing was able to make it engaging fiction.
If you want to read a well-presented religious story concerning the second coming that doesn’t deviate from your expectations, this novel is worth a gander. But, besides a few interesting moments, nothing stands out as new or particularly unique. I give it a 3/5.
I stayed up way too late last night finishing this book, but I couldn't put it down. I hope we get a sequel soon!
I downloaded the book on Thursday and finished on Saturday. Really enjoyed the characters and the thought provoking storyline. As a Christian, the Son of Man, Revelations and the return have always intrigued me and John Sherman has given us a great story to consider. Several of the inner stories were very surprising and made me think a lot about some of the current events happening in our country today. It was very hard to put down and I look forward to future works.
Rife with characters you can cheer for and with a plot at once gripping and uniquely its own, Before the Flood is tough to put down. I could relate easily to the protagonist, Thomas (a journalist assigned to cover the story of a young latino boy claiming he is the second coming of Christ), and to his skepticism at the start of the book. As I became more and more entwined in the story, I found myself wondering, as Thomas did, what to believe. I always think highly of books that inspire an inner dialogue...that spark questions you're left contemplating well after you've finished - Before the Flood does just that. An eerily captivating read. Highly recommend it.
Extraordinary, well crafted story of what seems to be a new SON OF GOD come to prepare us for the last days. Disciples are all misfits and for some reason one is left wondering where the author got his inspiration. Added Does he know something we don't? Tell us, John Sherman. Why are you not discovered yet?
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