"Are you trying to define God based on your 'God-Box'? Everyone has a God-Box, it is a little sphere that holds all of your views about what God should be, and what He should or shouldn't do. With Jesus, God was trying to brake through people's God-Boxes. He was trying to say, 'Listen up... this is who I REALLY am!'"
- Andy Stanley (as paraphrased from his talk Belief in God; It's Personal)
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There have been a few times in the past when people have tried to force their views of God on me, saying things like, "I don't think God would do that." The problem was that they were basing their view on their emotions rather than on Scripture. Or, they were trying to put the limitations of human beings on God, or bring God down to be more like a human being. Some of them had a very politically-correct god.
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