God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.
Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.