Sometimes when you're surfing, you find things that just need posting--a "coincidence," if you like.
Beware
of manufacturing a god of your own: a god who is all mercy but not
just, a god who is all love but not holy, a god who has a heaven for
everybody but a hell for none, a god who can allow good and bad to be
side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and
broad in eternity. Such a god is an idol of your own, as truly an idol
as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own
fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible,
and beside the God of the Bible, there is no God at all.
Beware of making selections from your Bible to suit your taste. Dare not to say, ‘I believe this verse, for I like it. I refuse that, for I cannot reconcile it with my views’. Nay! But O man, who art thou that repliest against God? By what right do you talk in this way? Surely it were better to say over EVERY chapter in the word, “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth”. Ah! If men would do this, they would never deny the unquenchable fire.
J.C. Ryle (1816-1900), Fire, Fire!
(Thanks to Conservative Black Woman)
UPDATE: The "Jesus" described by Liberation Theologies is most certainly an idol, as is the little-g god worshiped by Liberation theologians such as James Cone, prophet of Black Liberation Theology. Of course we remember Cone's god: the one who will get revenge on the "white enemy." And of course we remember who BLT's most famous adherent is.
