Introduction

If we think of God as a person, that might seem to mean that he thinks things over and does his best to figure out what to do. But even on this picture, something's not quite right - it doesn't really sound like God. We just arrived at the idea that God isn't a person, but starting from a rather non-Christian way of thinking about God. Traditional Christian theology has a different notion of God. It says not only that God is different from us, but also that he's different from us by being higher up on the same scale. This suggests that his power and our power are, at least potentially, in competition,. He must decrease so that we might