Abstract
Even when we paint a picture of God with our favorite colors, “Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,” we must beware of casting God in our image. It is risky to speculate about the nature of God on the basis of what we presume about human nature. Fortunately, we have Scripture to guide our thinking about God and humans. Yet Scripture can be remarkably difficult to interpret, as millennia of Judeo-Christian theological debate have demonstrated.
