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# More Than a Skeleton: It Was One Man Against the World

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Thrilling, Engrossing Read--Not for an uncritical thinker
  

*by P***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2003*

I can well understand why one reviewer thought this book a waste of time and money. That person had a preconceived notion about what the end times should be like. Instead, we should review all novels, teaching, sermons, etc. on the basis of the Bible, read in context.I can assure you though, it is NOT a waste of time or money. In fact, you will likely have trouble putting it down. I would have completed it in one evening if I didn't have to go to bed!This book is best read in context, i.e., after reading A Skeleton in God's Closet.Read, buy and recommend this theological thriller. You don't have to be a Lutheran or a protestant to appreciate it.The author is honest about his theological bias. He is a Lutheran Christian, an ordained clegryman in the conservative, confessional, and Biblically-based Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.The author refutes such authors like Hal Lindsay and the Left Behind series from a Biblical standpoint and a mature, well-thought-out theology that is in line with what has been historically taught in the church. The idea of a "Rapture" is foreign to Christianity pre-1830. The idea spread through travelling evangelists and study Bibles to North America.The author is correct in asserting that the majority of Christians who have ever lived, as well as a majority of Christians alive today, do not support the "rapture" as described in Left Behind and the theology called premillenial dispensationalism. Granted, majority numbers alone do not dictate theology, but they do cause one to wonder-was the church across the board wrong about the end times for 1,830 years? I think not.People are and can be easily deceived. Just because a novel or denomination claims to be Bible-based does not always guarantee that they are. Often, religious fiction is less "taken from the Bible" than "inspired by the Bible."The worldview presented in the novel is consistent with the historic Christian faith. It understands Bible verses in context, with due reverence for the literal and the symbolic, and draws meaning from the Christian Scritpures rather than reading preconcieved notions into so-called "proof passages."Look for Dr. Maier's other historical novels and excellent work on the early Church.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Could it be the Second Coming?
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2018*

After reading Dr. Maier’s Skelton in God’s Closet, I was so engrossed in it and it’s exciting story that kept me up until 3:20 AM and a draggy new day, the story kept going through my mind while I wrestled with the subject matter. Then I found the second book in the series “More Than. A Skeleton”. I immediately sent my IPad into overdrive to fend the Kindle version. I found it and in less than 3 days I had devoured it. To say it is a page turner is really putting it mildly. What a story! Dr. Maker not only has away with words, he has total command of the dictionary and Thesaurus, and now on to book 3 in the series, The Constantine Codex!  Thanks to my Pastor, I have a new genius author and favorite biblical historian that I can listen to on U-Tube.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    a lot to be desired
  

*by E***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2017*

Paul L. Maier's More Than a Skeleton (2003) is the sequel to A Skeleton in God's Closet. Unlike the first book that almost exclusively focuses on an archaeological discovery and it's implications for the Christian faith, this book deals only cursorily with archaeology while presenting another challenge to fundamental Christian beliefs. In this novel, protagonist Jon Webber and the world are surprised by the advent of a remarkable man: Joshua Ben-Yosef, whose words and miracles bear a remarkable resemblance to the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. But is this what the Second Coming is supposed to be like? Have Christians been misinterpreting the Bible for two millennia? And if he is the Lord come again, what does this mean for world-wide Christianity?Although the first novel was a fun adventure, the sequel has a lot to be desired. This is mainly due to the fact that, while the first book had a halfway believable plot, I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief here. The question of how Jesus will return has been one I've often pondered, and the book explores the possibility that our preconceptions about how it will happen may be mistaken. But the way that the book goes about dramatizing this issue just doesn't hold up. I hope the next book is better.Oh, and again there's still too much banter; Maier should just stop trying to make us laugh.

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