John,

I am grateful that you included the link to that article by Pastor Ron Gleason. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who stood opposed to the upcoming Mel Gibson movie for the very reasons which Gleason opposes it; it is a clear violation of the 2nd Commandment and an affront to the Sovereign Lord.

There were many salient and profound points which were made in the article, but there was one in particular that really struck me. It was a quote from Jochem Douma:

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I have had a number of conversations with modern Christians who essentially deny God's sovereignty. When I ask them to tell me what they think God is like, nine times out of ten, their description is pretty much of themselves. They have fabricated God in their image. Rather than allowing Scripture to form and inform what they believe concerning the nature of God, they have imagined a god like themselves, which, ultimately, since he is not the God of Scripture, is no god; he's an idol—for the spiritual destruction of the idol maker.
Perhaps this quote caught my attention over any of the others because I have found this to be true in my own life when speaking with so many people; not non-Christians only but unfortunately with those who profess to be followers of Christ. I'm afraid that the overwhelming majority of professing Christians in the Western World no little of the "True Living God" (see the discussion in our study on the WSC on this Board), but follow after a "god" of their own imagination.

Thanks again for bringing this up. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In His Grace,

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