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This book describes the problem of sin and salvation in terms that relate to real life. Using the metaphor of abuse and recovery from abuse, the book outlines what sin as abuse is and the steps to recovery from it so as to make it clear that God is not an Abuser. Once we learn this truth--that God is entirely trustworthy, loving, and freedom-giving, we can be transformed and live in healthy relationships with others.

For centuries, the originator of abuse has worked hard to convince us that sin is anything but an internal process of victimization involving all our perceptions. By changing all the labels and turning reality inside out, he has gotten our indirect and unconscious allegiance to his principles and methods. By unmasking his rebellion, we may come to see what a terrible loss of freedom, self-worth, and integrity we have suffered....Like victims of a world-wide infant kidnapping, we have grown up in the wrong family. We assume that the way things are must be the way things should be—despite the pain, oppression, and fear we have experienced. For too long we have suffered from sin, until many of us think we are enjoying a wonderful life. Victims of life’s multiple wounds, we have come to glory in our scars as symbols of our toughness, resilience, and success. Yet we deserve the truth about this false family, this false reality that we have inherited.