So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered. Geoffrey Wood
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I think the reason why we don’t trust God is because we don’t see Him as any different than our other information. When we look at the Bible we only see the parts we feel we can trust and we don’t see the parts that aren’t viable or applicable in our lives. The Bible is just about everything that is out there in the world. It is all of the information that has come to us from God and it is all of the information that came from us.

So it becomes one big, long agreement between God and man, God and man together. I think if we put God in a box with all of our other information, He would be treated like every little bit of information within our hearts.

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