What Do They Believe?

A Systematic Theology of the Major Western Religions

By: Andrew Rappaport

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What do Jewish people believe? What do Muslims believe? Do you have answers ready for a Mormon or a Jehovah’s Witness? Have you ever wished that there was a resource to review the systematic theology of other religions? Now there is one! Using mostly original sources, What Do They Believe? will help you to get an accurate understanding of what other religions believe. Michael Abd El-Massih, founder and executive director of Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry: "I was glued to your description of Islam and its teaching and kept reading and reading. Well done—you are an excellent writer and a researcher. I have read many books on Islam (at least 40 books or so, mostly in Arabic), and I can testify that the subject is well researched." This book will quote original sources accepted as authoritative in each of the major Western religions or material generally accepted by most in that religion. People often study different religions in order to refute them. This book will attempt to explain what the belief systems are within the context of the religion, not the Christian context. The areas of focus will include the following: • View of Authority (Scriptures) • • View of God (Trinity) • • View of Sin (Man’s Spiritual Condition) • • View of Jesus Christ (Deity) • • View of Eternal State (Heaven and Hell) • • View of Salvation (How Does One Go to Heaven) •

Informative but Dry

Let me start by saying that this is a good book. It is very informative and thorough. But it isn't good as an audiobook. There are too many references and too many parenthesis contained to make this a book a good audiobook. And I hate to say that because, with a handful of edits, it would have been a great audiobook. I will probably buy it as a hardcopy though because the information was very good.

I have listened to virtual voice before and been impressed and I will say that it was essentially well read by a computer. But there are certain nuances to reading that the computer didn't catch and whomever edited the book didn't bother to hear. For example, if one is referencing a page range in an attribution it might look like "see Daniels, History of Islam pgs. 100-110," but this virtual voice read that as "see Daniels, History of Islam, pgs 100 minus 110." I can see how the computer interpreted that, but what starts out as humorous turns into irritation after about the third time. And there were others as well.

Bottom line - good book but not good audiobook. Virtual voice decent, but not great.