Botrus Mansour. Pasadena, Calif.: Hope Publishing House, 2011. 101 pp. (Paperback).
Author Botrus Mansour is a lawyer who became headmaster of a Baptist school in Nazareth, Israel. The first part of this book tells of Mansour’s life as an Arab evangelical Christian living in the Jewish state of Israel, then turns to a series of complaints, some (perhaps all) possibly well justified, beginning with the author’s contention that Christians in other parts of the world ignore Arab Christians who need their help and support.
The author does not stop there, but moves into a challenge to Western Christians’ view of Israel, writing that “the difficulty comes from a common view among many evangelicals that the current state of Israel is a fulfillment of prophecy foreshadowing the Second Coming of Christ,” then goes on to question whether the Palestinians, then, are viewed as just an obstacle to God’s plan.
It may have been helpful if the author had attempted to show his interpretation of the Scriptures that led him to his conclusions, but he did not. This is where he will probably lose many evangelical readers.
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