Why Do We Try to Make God Human?
“…then God relented concerning the disaster that He had planned to bring upon them; and He did not do it.” There is something profoundly striking about this ancient verse from the story of Jonah. It presents us with an image of God that feels unexpectedly intimate, perhaps even fragile. We see a deity depicted in remarkably human terms—capable of feeling the heat of anger, devising plans for…















