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From Wikipedia: Criticism of Warren's "Purpose Driven Life."
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Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 12:16 AM by Democrats_win
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purpose_Driven_Life

"One complaint from a Lutheran perspective is that Warren fails to present the evangelical Christian gospel accurately--failing to accurately represent the nature of sin, repentance and hell, as well as the blood sacrifice of God's son Jesus as the means to be forgiven by God for sins and which allows man to have a relationship with God.<5> Some critics accuse him of absolving his readers of moral responsibility by making Satan into an all-pervasive godlike figure contrary to both orthodox theology and psychological soundness,<6> and some contend that when citing Scripture, Warren jumps from one Bible version to another, cherry-picking whichever paraphrase or translation supports whatever point he attempts to convey.<7> The practice of using translations selectively is defended by others.<8> Yet another common complaint pertains to Warren's statement that "Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took forty days"<9>--a claim which critics affirm to be both overly broad and contradicted by Scripture.<10>"

edit: typo correction.



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