Human Effort In Salvation?

[crakjak]

Another from George MacDonald:

"...How terribly, then, have the theologians misrepresented God! Nearly all of them represent Him as a great King on a grand throne, thinking how grand He is, and making it the business of His and the end of His universe to keep up His glory, wielding the bolts of Jupiter against them that take His name in vain. They would not allow this, but follow out what they say, and comes much to this.

....Brothers, have you found our king? There He is kissing little children and saying they are like God...The simplest peasant who loves his children and his sheep were--no, not a truer, for the other is false, but--a true type of our God beside that monstrosity of a monarch.

...the notion that a creature born imperfect, nay, born with impulses to evil not of his own generating, and which he could not help having, a creature to whom the true face of God was never presented, and by whom it never could have been seen, should be thus condemned [to everlasting torment] is as loathsome a lie against God as could find place in a heart too undeveloped to understand what justice is, and too low to look up into the face of Jesus. It never in truth found place in any heart, though in many a pettifogging brain."

Tradition is evil, in it presentation of God.