[lupie]

We really have invented a god after our own image.

They want a god that caters to their feelings and their accomplishments and their desires. A god that follows them. It amazes me how much scripture twisting occurs to accomplish that. They don't realize that it is all about His glory, His worthiness, and our unworthiness. Only when we realize that and give Him the glory do we really get what we crave - peace with God through Christ.

[aruanan]

They want a god that caters to their feelings and their accomplishments and their desires.

If so, it's only because, according to John Calvin, all those feelings and accomplishments and desires, even the most evil and twisted, have been planned by God since before the foundation of the world and put into practice in such a way that there is no deviation between anything that happens anywhere in creation throughout time from the beginning to the end, from the flavor of the smallest quark to the motion of the universe as a whole, from the most benign thought to the cruelest genocide, and God's own design.