Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.
The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.