Who is God?

Pod Bhogal  |  Features  |  The Third Degree
Date posted:  1 Mar 2011
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‘God is Bob, Steve, or any of those generic killjoys that you run into at the pub. Not only are they constantly judging you, they prevent you from having fun. No drinking to excess, no banter, no sin. Worst of all, whenever you decide to chat to a woman he swoops in and stops you. In other words, I don’t want to go to the pub with Bob’ (anonymous student, London).

Is God really like Bob? One suspects that said student is not alone in thinking that God is just one great big cosmic killjoy. According to the gospel of Bob, God is rule maker and sin is rule breaking. The — rather unattractive — solution is rule keeping and salvation is just avoiding an almighty whacking. Who’d want to worship a cosmic headmaster like Bob?

Yet the 200 plus Christian Unions in Britain exist to preach the gospel of Jesus. A message of good news about God, who was in eternity (before any rules were given), a Father loving his Son.

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