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.