001) IN MAN'S IMAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 6

001) IN MAN'S IMAGE

OBSERVATIONS BY BRITISH MINISTER. “We have been allowing ourselves to worship a God made in the image of all the social.' cultural, political, ecclesiastical influences and systems which have formed the background of our world." said the Rev F. A. Cockin. Canon of St Paul’s, in a recent address. “We have come to identify the maintenance of them with the fulfilment of His will. Wo have come lo think of their possible.breakdown as equivalent to the frustration of His whole plan. And now when we are faced with the imminent probability of that breakdown, we have nothing left to worship but a God who must be nearly as sceptical and disillusioned as ourselves. Well there is no need to look very far for a more than adequate corrective of all this: for on this issue the Bible is perfectly clear. It is emphatic in its insistence that while there is a close personal relation between God and man. that man is made in the image of God. that doos not justify us in what Heine described as 'returning the compliment' and presuming to interpret, the nature oT God in terms of our own. 'God is not a man that He should lie: or the son of man that Ho should change His mind.’ 'My thoughts are not as your thoughts; neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.’