The Godhood of God

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The Godhood of God! What is meant by this expression? Ah, sad it is that such a question needs to be asked and answered. And yet it does, for a generation has arisen that is well nigh universally ignorant of the important truth which this term connotes. That which is popular today in the colleges, in the pulpits, and in the press, is the dignity, the power, and the attainments of man. But this is only the corrupt fruit that has issued from the evolutionary teachings of fifty years ago. When Christian theologians accepted the Darwinian hypothesis, which excluded God from the realm of creation, it was only to be expected that, more and more, God would be banished from the realm of human affairs. Thus it has proven. To the twentieth-century mind God is little more than an abstraction, an impersonal “first cause” or, if a being at all, one far removed from this world and having little or nothing to do with mundane affairs. Man is a “god” unto himself. He is a “free agent,” and therefore the regulator of his own life and the determiner of his own destiny. Such was the devil’s lie at the beginning—“Ye shall be as God” (Gen 3:5). But from human speculation and satanic insinuation we turn to divine revelation…