WHERE IS THE TRUE GOD?--A.W. PINK (1886-1952)

Brother Arthur W. Pink had a dedication to telling the truth. Here in two paragraphs he cuts to the truth regarding the true God. He had this gift of expression that has touched so many. It touched many while he lived, but so many more since his death in 1952. I read him often, and would advise you to do the same.

The “god” of this twentieth century no more resembles the Supreme Sovereign of Holy Writ than does the dim flickering of a candle the glory of the midday sun.  The “god” who is now talked about in the average pulpit, spoken of in the ordinary Sunday School, mentioned in much of the religious literature of the day, and preached in most of the so-called Bible Conferences is the figment of human imagination, an invention of maudlin sentimentality.  

The heathen outside the pale of Christendom form “gods” out of wood and stone, while the millions of heathen inside Christendom manufacture a ‘“god” out of their own carnal mind.  In reality, they are but atheists, for there is no other possible alternative between an absolute supreme God, and no God at all.  A “god” whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits nought but contempt.
 
From The Attributes of God  by Arthur W. Pink