Paula G. (Paulathegreat) reviewed on + 151 more book reviews
This is a cute book. The author intended it to show the wonder of the Nativity. The art is cute. The writing is mostly age appropriate.
However,
The book has some big theological issues that make it at least blasphemous.
1) Angels are not worshipped. In Revelations 22:8,9 John falls at the angels feet and the angel orders him to get up "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God.â In the temptations, Jesus clearly tells Satan that only God is to be worshipped. So angels do not sing the praise of other angels. This is blasphemy.
2) God in this book is called "His Majesty". This is not horrible, but it does make him distant and unapproachable.
3) The little angels in this story are motivated by self-promotion and position. The culmination of the story is not the birth of Jesus, but the knighting of the child angels to "The Order of St. Gabriel", which sounds oddly masonic in a bad conspiracy theory kind of way.
The author states "Lo and Behold [the child angels in the story] came into being as the result of being awakened during the night and feeling nudged by the Holy Spirit to write down what came to me. The story simply wrote itself as it flowed out of my pen, and I was amazed at the result!"
This sounds terribly like what the spiritualists say of automatic writing. As much as this book contradicts standard Christian theology, I would suggest Ms. Breeze-Green tests her spirits better. If the devil wrote a children's book he wouldn't make it overtly evil. He would merely replace worship of God with something that looks harmless.
However,
The book has some big theological issues that make it at least blasphemous.
1) Angels are not worshipped. In Revelations 22:8,9 John falls at the angels feet and the angel orders him to get up "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God.â In the temptations, Jesus clearly tells Satan that only God is to be worshipped. So angels do not sing the praise of other angels. This is blasphemy.
2) God in this book is called "His Majesty". This is not horrible, but it does make him distant and unapproachable.
3) The little angels in this story are motivated by self-promotion and position. The culmination of the story is not the birth of Jesus, but the knighting of the child angels to "The Order of St. Gabriel", which sounds oddly masonic in a bad conspiracy theory kind of way.
The author states "Lo and Behold [the child angels in the story] came into being as the result of being awakened during the night and feeling nudged by the Holy Spirit to write down what came to me. The story simply wrote itself as it flowed out of my pen, and I was amazed at the result!"
This sounds terribly like what the spiritualists say of automatic writing. As much as this book contradicts standard Christian theology, I would suggest Ms. Breeze-Green tests her spirits better. If the devil wrote a children's book he wouldn't make it overtly evil. He would merely replace worship of God with something that looks harmless.
