Matt McAvoy Book Review

John’s measure of truth leans very heavily toward the premise that unconditional love and acceptance are much higher on the scale, whilst vengeance, intolerance and sin measure very low, one’s personal capacity toward one end or another affecting their own personal score.  To simplify this concept, good, positive spiritual energy scores highly, whilst negative spiritual energy scores low, meaning that those gospels preaching God’s wrath have a very negative influence on our religious enlightenment – a wrath that John himself might actually incur by suggesting these books be removed from the Bible for their negativity.  As a benchmark, Jesus and Buddha will score at 1000, whilst the average human in modern society is less than 200.

I have to be honest, I’m not a religious person and this scoring system meant very little to me.  As far as the “proof” of it goes, I suppose you would have to ask a person of faith, because in my own opinion proof and faith are mutually exclusive concepts.  I would never, ever ridicule or challenge a person’s religious beliefs, and certainly not when reviewing, but in this case I can’t really comment on the faith or truth aspects, as I am inappropriate to do so.  What I can comment on is the quality of the book and the writing, which are tremendously good.  I note that John writes in a variety of genres, both non-fiction and fiction, and to tell the truth I really wish he had sent me one of his fiction books, and hope that he does one day, because I like his writing style.  He has an articulate, easy style – even if I perhaps struggled a little to grasp the concept of muscle testing (though I personally believe this may be more about its validity than John’s ability to articulate it).

Be warned, though, if you are anything less than a moderate you may find some seriously offensive triggers in this book, such as the “truth” score of abortion and homosexuality, among other “negative energy” factors.  To those who aren’t devout this may seem somewhat contradictory to the whole ethos of the scoring criteria, but I would also say don’t draw conclusions about this until reading the book.  My personal view is that it will appeal primarily to very traditionalist New Testament, Good News Christians.