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Holy blood glory to the heroes zip5/16/2023 The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him-and of her. It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity. Tozer wrote concerning the desperate need for the church to revise its concept of God due to a very distorted conception of Him: Consider what some of those men of God have to say about studying the attributes of God. Throughout history, great men of God have devoted themselves to the study of God’s character and encouraged others to do likewise. It is a study which could transform your life. My hope is that this lesson will stimulate you to begin your own personal study of the attributes of God. Finally, we will see how the attributes of God impacted the lives of two great men of old, Job and Moses. We shall first consider the testimony of some great men of God before looking at some of the practical benefits of such a study as taught in the Scriptures. This lesson attempts to demonstrate the importance of studying the attributes of God. The purpose of this series is to explore the excellencies of God, to realign our thinking about God with those divine characteristics revealed in the Scriptures. We desperately need in our time to radically revise our thinking about God. But even more distressing is the shallow, inaccurate view of God held by professing Christians. Bemporad seems to believe our theology needs to adjust to our desires, rather than recognizing that we must adjust our theology to who God really is.Īlthough I am hardly surprised by them, I certainly do not agree with the views unbelievers hold of God. I think he is basically saying: “Men believe in the kind of God they wish to believe in and reject the kind of God they dislike.” He seems to place little emphasis, if any, on the description of God found in the Holy Scriptures. ready to serve you.” Disturbingly, however, Rabbi Bemporad also includes the concept of God’s wrath as a childish idea. Among these is the thought that God is a “cosmic bellhop. Some “childish” ideas about God are wrong and should be rejected. To a large extent, atheists seldom reject a credible God but usually ‘reject some stupid way of thinking about God,’ the authors say, calling some ideas about God ‘so ridiculous they are not worth believing.’ While I can agree with some of the author’s ideas, overall I must differ with him. From reading only this article, Bemporad seems to be saying that we must forsake what we have learned about God as children and think of God in more adult terms. The religion section of the Dallas Morning News recently contained an article entitled, “Letting God Grow Up.” 1 Rabbi Jack Bemporad, a leader in Jewish-Christian dialogue, has co-authored a new book, Stupid Ways, Smart Ways to Think about God.
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