The True God Relates Creation, but Doesn't Burn It Up

Dostoyevsky said that the only true christian was christ, and his criticism was essentially saved for the dogmatic structure of the church. He also had wonderful things to say about christ as a figure. I think the institutions deserve a certain amount of sympathy, even though i'm very concerned that they're degenerating in a manner that doesn't look easily forestallable. It's so beautiful to me, in those seemingly abstract formulas about the two natures that come together in jesus without mixing, mingling and confusion. That's what the atheist, quite rightly, old and new, ourr objecting to is precisely that false understanding of god.