The Nature of God: Conversations With An Atheist

To adopt an idea that God is all powerful is, as Touchstone rightly points out, to take on a rather awful burden.  All people are in the position of Pharaoh in Exodus, of whom God says, "I will harden his heart" (Exodus 4:21) so that one is punished for failure to do what God has not allowed one to do.

While I've read a tremendous amount of theology on this, I don't really see a way around it.

And I cannot agree that it would be just, or that such a god would be worthy of worship.

Notice a few things, though, that the Christian notion of God-as-love implies.

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John's Gospel In Sickness and Health, and oh, yes, Franklin Graham

Christianity isn't a religion in the marketplace of religions. Not in John. It's the means by which your religion, whatever it is, declares itself part of God's life in the world.... And while the claims of John's Jesus are still pretty sweeping and exclusive, so long as people are worrying themselves about who's going to hell, their quotations from John are shooting blanks.  They're not reading the book.  They're looking at the Disney film.

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Have Your God Call My God

Putting it another way, either God is totally impenetrable or God is totally penetrating. But you can't really find another option, epistemologically anyway.

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