In Brief...World News Review: Who Is God?
What does Scripture actually tell us about God?
According to a September 2003 Harris Interactive Nationwide Survey in America about how people view God, 48 percent thought of Him as a spirit that is able to take on human form, 27 percent a spirit power that doesn't take on human form, 10 percent didn't believe in God at all and 9 percent thought of Him as a human being with a body (USA Today, Oct. 24, 2003, Atlantic edition). Although Americans are 10 times as likely as Europeans to attend church on a regular basis, there is still no general consensus about His nature in the United States.
Across the Atlantic, the British are generally much less precise in the way they express their views. In Britain we hear and read of "devout skeptics" as people steadily turn away from organized religion by the thousands. Many of the intelligentsia talk of "a dimension of spirit that transcends the mundane" or "the sense of the numinous within the human spirit." God is often viewed as "the quest for goodness" or some such similar expression (The Times [London], Aug. 25, 2003). The personal God of the Bible seems far from their thinking.
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World News and Prophecy: November 2003
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John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
