LEANING TOWARD HERESY

    By A.W. Tozer
 

    The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken. . . thou
    thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.
                                                                       --  Psalm 50:1,21

        When large numbers of adherents in the Christian
    churches come to believe that God is different from what
    He actually is, that concept becomes heresy of the most
    insidious and deadly kind!

        When the Christian church surrenders her once lofty
    concept of God and substitutes for it ideas so low, so
    ignoble as to be utterly unworthy, her situation is tragic
    indeed.  Into the life and the practices of the church
    comes a whole new philosophy; and the sense of the
    divine Presence and the majesty of God is no longer
    known.

        Although "morality" is no longer a popular word in
    our world, it is apparent that such low and unworthy
    concepts of God's Person actually constitute a moral
    calamity for professed believers in great segments of
    Christianity.  The records of both sacred and secular
    history show that low views of God will surely destroy
    the appeal of the Christian for all who hold them!

        To all sinners, Jesus said, "You must be born again
    from above!" He knew that the gods begotten in the
    shadowy thoughts of the fallen sons and daughters of
    Adam will quite naturally be no true likeness of the true
    and living God!
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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.