Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.