What about the possibility that our basic view of God is probably fashioned in the first ten years? My earliest impression of God, for example, was that He rained on parades. Which is to say that, for me, the God of the Bible was hardly the patron of fun. My childhood impression was that life was full of disappointments and that God liked it this way. From that I cultivated the notion that God probably did not want me to have a new bike, be selected first for the pickup baseball games at the corner lot, or enjoy the favor of the teacher in first grade. I realize now that this unfortunate view
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