Jerusalem Tomorrow

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One so often hears people say, ‘I just can’t handle it,’ when they reject a biblical image of God as Father, or Mother, as Lord or Judge; God as lover, as angry or jealous, God on a cross. I find this choice of words revealing, however real the pain they reflect: if we seek a God we can ‘handle,’ that will be exactly what we get. A God we can manipulate, suspiciously like ourselves, the wideness of whose mercy we’ve cut down to size.