When we treat God as a slot-machine, as granter of our wishes, conditional in his ways (if I do this, he will do that), as God of ‘love’ without holiness or justice, then he ceases to be God, bereft of any feelings, distant and impersonal, a tin god whom we can manipulate, who is blind to our mistakes, yes even blind to the bad motives of our wishes… Any god like that whom we have tamed in our own heads would be a god we have made in our likeness, a cruel and limited demigod limited in that decorated statue, powerless to give solution to our problems, unable to subdue evil and transform it as instrument for our own good. He would be a god of chances, of ‘swerte’ and ‘malas’. I won’t put my faith in such a god.  “While the thoughts of great numbers are led astray in the midst of ceremonies, priests, human lucubrations, pontifical fables, philosophic reveries, and are driven to and fro in the desert of this world, evangelical faith rises to heaven, and falls prostrate before Him who sitteth on the throne… Lord, to whom shall we go if not unto Thee? Let others follow the devices of their imaginations, or prostrate themselves before traditional superstitions, or kiss the feet of a sinful man. O King of glory! we desire but Thee alone.”  —J.H. Merle d’Aubigne, French minister and historian (1794-1872)
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When we treat God as a slot-machine, as granter of our wishes, conditional in his ways (if I do this, he will do that), as God of ‘love’ without holiness or justice, then he ceases to be God, bereft of any feelings, distant and impersonal, a tin god whom we can manipulate, who is blind to our mistakes, yes even blind to the bad motives of our wishes… Any god like that whom we have tamed in our own heads would be a god we have made in our likeness, a cruel and limited demigod limited in that decorated statue, powerless to give solution to our problems, unable to subdue evil and transform it as instrument for our own good. He would be a god of chances, of ‘swerte’ and ‘malas’. I won’t put my faith in such a god. 

“While the thoughts of great numbers are led astray in the midst of ceremonies, priests, human lucubrations, pontifical fables, philosophic reveries, and are driven to and fro in the desert of this world, evangelical faith rises to heaven, and falls prostrate before Him who sitteth on the throne… Lord, to whom shall we go if not unto Thee? Let others follow the devices of their imaginations, or prostrate themselves before traditional superstitions, or kiss the feet of a sinful man. O King of glory! we desire but Thee alone.” 

—J.H. Merle d’Aubigne, French minister and historian (1794-1872)

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