The first time I encountered Rosaria Butterfield was through her book Secrets of an Unlikely Convert. That book was enlightening and it was refreshing and incredible to hear her “unlikely” conversion story.
Well, she has delivered again with her new work, Five Lives of Our Anti-Christian Age, published by Crossway.
This book covers, as you would guess, five lies that people believe these days that are filled with anti-Christian thinking, propaganda, and ideologies. Those lies are: homosexuality is normal; being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical Christian; feminism is good for the world and the church; transgenderism is a normal; and modesty is an outdated burden that serves male dominance and holds women back.
Butterfield begins with a punch to the ribs:
We foolishly believed that we could reinvent our calling as men and women, defy God’s pattern and purpose for the sexes, and somehow reap God’s blessing. God’s plan for men and women, the creation ordinance, is first found in Genesis 1. And it is central—not peripheral—to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
From the get-go, Butterfield makes it known that the world has abandoned the principles of Genesis 1, beginning with what God’s plan is for males and females, and connecting that with the gospel itself—which is right.
She went on:
When we level creational differences between men and women, foolishly thinking that there is no vital difference between men and women, we disobey God. The disunity of our day reflects God’s cutting down to size the tower of gender and sexual confusion that we have foolishly built.
Regarding the second lie—“being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical Christian”—she comments:
Unbiblical spirituality welcomes people exactly as they are or, at least, makes this promise. This is a religion that elevates being a “good” person over giving your life to Christ.
There are several issues she holds nothing back on, including the topic of “gay Christians.”
She observes:
“Gay Christians” (an oxymoron if there ever was one) teach that you can’t repent of who you are, how you feel, or even what you desire. They believe that homosexual orientation is morally neutral, separate from one’s sin nature, cannot be repented of, and rarely changes over a person’s lifetime. This is a lie.
In the end, she does a wonderful job of exposing the culture’s lies that have been believed upon by so many, while pointing to the hope of the gospel; for that is the only answer to these lies.
Get this book!
I was given this book for free by the publisher in exchanged for an honest review.
Blake Long 
Leave a comment