No, I am not lying about a free book offer. I really do have a free book to offer you, and it’s called The Lie.
First, a bit about the book. I should begin by saying it’s not really a full length book. It’s a short story. It’s only 5000 words. Also, it is not a DTB…a Dead Tree Book. This means it is not printed on paper. It’s an ebook.
I believe that electronic publishing is the best and easiest way for authors to break into print. It’s easier and cheaper than self-publishing, and will soon dominate and revolutionize the publishing industry. What iTunes did for the music industry, and YouTube did to the television industry, ebooks will do for the publishing industry.
I wanted to learn the ropes of this process, and so started with something small and simple – a short story. The title of the story is The Lie.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Yet there was the President, on the television screen, finally revealing the truth that had been hidden for so many years.
“We are not alone in the universe.”
“Tell us something we don’t know,” I muttered. At this time yesterday, only lunatics, fringe cults, and mad scientists believed in aliens. Aliens were for movies, not for real life. But today, all that changed. Nobody actually saw any aliens, but what else could have done it? Oh sure, some of the religious nuts were saying it was God, that the rapture had finally occurred. But if it was the rapture, when God comes and takes all his followers to heaven, why were so many of the religious people still here? Many of them were wondering the same thing. So it clearly wasn’t God. And now, the president was confirming what we all knew.
Aliens had kidnapped about one-sixth of mankind. One billion people. Poof. Gone. Disappeared off the plant. It was a mass alien abduction, and the world was in chaos. Some were whispering that these people had been “harvested,” that they had been taken away for testing. But nobody knew for sure what had happened.
Now nearly the entire world listened as the President continued to explain what had happened…
In case you couldn’t tell, the book is science fiction… with an emphasis on the fiction. But it raises the question, if/when the rapture happens, what explanation will the world governments provide?
If you want to read the rest, the book is available on Amazon Prime.
I’ll review it for amazon.co.uk, if that counts. Can I cross post the review to my blog?
Eddie,
Sure, Amazon.co.uk is fine. And that’s fine about cross pointing the review.
Jeremy
would love to get a copy of your first book.
Absolutely. Coupons will be sent out nightly.
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Hilarious. But it counts! Coupon will be sent tonight.
So glad you’re doing this! Blogger’s books…are so great! And I’m pretty pumped to see your writing through sci-fi!
I don’t know about Blgger’s books being great. Ha ha. Most of us are just writer wannabes. Maybe it’s better to say we are writers in training.
Anyway, thanks for the comment. I’ll send you a coupon later today.
Jeremy, I would love to read your story. 🙂
Coupon is on the way!
I’ll read & review… sounds interesting
Coupon has been sent! Thanks for requesting it.
Love the concept.
I’m a big fan of the X-files and this would make the ultimate episode.
Seriously, a few years ago I came to the conclusion that there is just not enough scriptural backing for the whole rapture doctrine. However, this story of yours strangely brings me to doubt my view on the topic yet again.
Perhaps it’s my love for sci-fi and conspiracies. Whatever it is, I definately wanna see how the story ends.
Nice one Jeremy.
I’ll send you a coupon so you can read the rest. Remember, it’s just a short story. And it’s really not a story…well, you’ll see…
Hi jeremy,
Just wondering: do you believe the pre-trib rapture doctrine is biblical, or is this just pure fiction from your point of view (I e. Not grounded in biblical truth)? Just curious cause I’m struggling to discern for myself whether I think it has biblical support. Thanks,
Joey
I was taught the pre-trib view in Bible College and Seminary. N. T. Wright has been making me rethink it recently… So would I call it fiction? No … but am I certain of this perspective? I wouldn’t go that far either.
Gottcha.
Perhaps this isn’t the place to be talking about this, but I have a few questions I was hoping you wouldn’t mind answering –it would mean a whole lot to me, actually! It has to do with the christus victor theory of the atonement which I find myself moving towards . First, o really want to embrace it but am extremely frightened of what it “might” mean for my eternity. I have been taught that to abandon penal substitution is to abandon the Gospel and cut myself off from grace. I think it is only fear of condemnation,both temporal and eternal, that’s keeping me from more seriously pursuing it. I’ve been living in fear of displeasing God for a long time, constantly watching myself like a hawk where I’ve come to fear living in case I sin. Is tgere room in the cristus victor view to simply be human and live, and even to rejoice in being human , inspire of our falleness? How is sin defined apart from the law? How do we know what is and what isn’t sin? And does a person even need to believe in Jesus to be forgiven by God?
Please pardon my ignorance but I NEED to learn. Thanks my friend,
Joey
Great questions. As C. S. Lewis once said, “The important thing about the atonement is not HOW it works, but THAT it works.” Penal Substitution is a “how” issue. So is Christus Victor. In the past 8 years or so, I have come to move from Penal Substitution to Christus Victor. Don’t let anyone tell you that doing so endangers your eternal destiny. That way of thinking only shows one of the main problems with Penal Substitution (it uses fear as a motivator … but as John says, there is no fear in love … perfect love casts out fear).
Anyway, a full explanation of your questions would take quite a bit of space. But I recently published a book which answers most of these questions. Here is a link: The Atonement of God