Book Review: The Human Right by Rice Broocks

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most important message that mankind needs to hear. The gospel tells us why we are considered sinners before a holy God and why we need a Savior. The gospel tells us that we are enslaved by sin and can be set free from sin by Christ.

Some would even calls this a human right. Rice Broocks calls it the ultimate human right, which is the subject of his latest book, The Human Right: To Know Jesus Christ and to Make Him Known. Broocks is the author of God's Not Dead, which looked at the logical reasoning for the existence of God, which inspired a movie by the same title, and the author of Man Myth Messiah, which looked at the existence of Jesus Christ. This book looks at the gospel and why it is important for all of mankind to hear this message.

As I read this book, there are things I did agree with Broocks on such as how he defined the gospel and even the importance for the church to proclaim it. The more I got into this book, the more I saw that it was making the gospel a social issue. The book is titled The Human Right, which begs the question, does mankind have a right to hear the gospel. Yes, the church does have the responsibility to share the message of Christ to everyone, but this is a message no one deserves.

We are sinners and deserve judgment and hell, which I did not see Broocks denying in any part of the book. I did not see any indication of universalism in the book as well. However, he does suggest that hearing the gospel is the right of all mankind and the church will do an injustice if we do not. You see why I think this book was turning proclaiming the gospel into a social issue.

I had some good expectations with this book considering I did enjoy the other two Broocks has written. Yes, God's Not Dead is better than the movie version. This book was very much like "Spider-man 3," the worse of the trilogy.

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