Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Lovingly thoughtful treatment by seeming enemy of the Bible.

Peter Gomes largely expresses his love of Scripture, though, at times, he ascends the soapbox to defend personal behavior or bias. Mostly expressing insights that make even a staunch conservative rethink well-known passages, his hermeneutic on those portions of the Bible which contradict his practice does, however, become juvenile. All in all a powerful treatment which causes one to either reinforce previously held beliefs or alter preconceptions based upon new analyses. And, isn't that what thoughtful writing does