Status Updates From The Sin of Certainty: Why G...

“It is so easy to slip into right thinking mode that we have arrived at full faith. We know what church God goes to, what bible translation God prefers, how God votes, what movies God watches, and what books God reads, we know the kinds of people God approves of. God has winners and losers, and we are the winners, the true insiders. God likes all the things we like. We speak for God, and think nothing of it.”

Doubting God is painful and frightening because we believe we are leaving god behind, when in fact, we are only leaving behind ideas about god that we are used to surrounding ourselves with. The small God, the God within our control, the God who moves in our circles, the God who agrees with us.”