Learning to Walk with God like Enoch
Filled with advice for Christians to welcome God’s love into their lives, How to Walk with God like Enoch is an assertive religious guide.
Emmanuel Omere’s evangelizing guide How to Walk with God like Enoch calls for the rejection of worldly concerns, instructing born-again Christians to build a loving bond with God.
Presenting walking with God as a metaphor for perfect Christian practice, as exemplified by figures including Noah and Enoch, the book asserts that God wants to be close to people, but that a lack of personal focus in humans sometimes prevents this. It prescribes a range of familiar exercises to heal this rift, including daily prayer, complete reliance on faith, and being prepared for the Rapture, asserting
There is no doubting the fact that God loves us. Amazingly, in spite of our frailties, God’s agape love towards us never wanes. God can never stop loving us. Therefore, the least we can do to appreciate His love, mercy, favour and kindness to us is to love Him in return.
If people trust in and return this love, the book suggests, they will feel the effects of God’s closeness on their lives.
Contradictions arise because of the book’s tone, though. It sells itself as being about building a loving relationship with God, but its language is aggressive. One chapter focuses on being sure of one’s salvation, embellished by a distressing personal story of Omere cutting a woman out of his life because of potential temptation. Further, fear and obedience are mentioned as often as love. And the benefits of submission are illustrated with unconvincing anecdotes about luck or a general lack of discord, and with the story of the just outcome of a trial.
Further, the book’s Christian theology is limited. Its arguments lean most on the Hebrew Bible, not the New Testament. And while there are brief discussions of the necessity of taking Jesus as one’s savior and about the Sermon on the Mount, the book’s advice on loving one’s neighbors and searching one’s heart is sparse. Instead, repenting of one’s sins becomes the major theme of the book, sans nuanced reflection on the roots of one’s past behaviors and the harm they might have caused.
The book’s formatting is also inconsistent. Its biblical quotes sometimes appear in bold print, but sometimes not. Grammatical errors, as with a lack of spacing between words, are also frequent and distracting. And the prose is straightforward but repetitive, resulting in a slow and monotonous progression.
How to Walk with God like Enoch is a familiar manual for the faithful that focuses on obedience and daily practice.
Reviewed by
M. W. Merritt
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