“It is both possible and common to embrace the one God, the God revealed in Scripture and in Jesus, and then go off and make an image of him that cuts him down to a size that fits what we want in God. Making an image of God, even the God who is speaking to us from Sinai or the cross, reduces God to our idea of him, or who we want him to be, or a way that we can use him. Once we have an image of God we don't have to deal with God. An image is impersonal, and we don't have to have any relationship with what is impersonal.”