Church Voices

This group of comments saddens me greatly because it is indicative of a general attitude found within the church which views God as an unapproachable deity that is closer to Islamic theology of the ineffable Allah than it does a heavenly father.

Consider this comment from that same thread:

Ultimately we (all people) live under the threat of eternal death if we worship improperly, do we not?

Or this one:

The Bible does not say God is “love, love, love.” It does say, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.”

And then consider this:

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Luke 13.34

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8.38-39

The scriptures describe God as father, Christ as brother and husband. Any theology that fails to relationally connect His people to Him in this way is a theology that is devoid of Christ because it is through the sacrifice of Christ that we have been added to his family and are able to approach the throne of grace.