Sunday 21 April 2013

GOD

'It's as if we have all Hiduized our Christianity - is your god more a god of bellicosity and war, or does he look more like the god of prosperity, or perhaps the god of social action? At least the Hindus aim for clarity by calling them by different names, yet we insist on using the same word - God - and identifying our priorities as his. We have taken a God of many names and hand-selected our favorite few. A vast and mysterious yet intimate and personal God has been reduced into something small and manageable and comprehensible. Whereas the Scripture says that we were created in God's image, we have remade him in ours.'
Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, p.346.