The God
of the Atheist

The normal "idolater" creates a version of God to which he can snuggle up. In his mind, he creates an all-loving, kind, and forgiving God. He leaves out the fact that the Bible tells us that God is holy and just, and will by no means clear the guilty. He passes over verses such as "Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though they join forces, none will go unpunished" (Proverbs 16:5). Then once he has created his benevolent image of God, he bows before it, and it is to that image that he brings his prayerful petitions. The problem is, his god doesn’t exist. But that is of no consequence to him, because the idolater can easily find a church that preaches the attributes of his idol.

The atheist does the exact opposite of the regular idolater. He constructs his idol with material from the Scriptures, and he may even call it a "Megalo-maniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." Then, once he has made his idol, he flatly rejects it. And so he should. The image that he has made of God, is evil. It is without love and mercy.

And so the atheist has the same result as the idolater. The image only exists in his mind--in the place of imagery...in his imagination.

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