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.