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I agree with the main character of Marilynne Robinson's novel "Gilead," who says, "Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense".

Figure #21 - Representation of the Smiling God from a slab found in the patio of the New Temple (no.2, fig.2).

For Kerouac, who sought comfort in God from a life riven by alcoholism and depression, religious themes like the Crucifixion and the Resurrection "were not a joke," Mr. Brinkley said.

So Jack Miles is quite right, in his new book, "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God" (Knopf; $26.95), to suggest, a little blasphemously, that the story of the New Testament is the story of a self-rescue — a rescue by God from a calamity that God had created.

In the time of Euripides it was used conventionally for the epilogue, at which point a god descended from heaven to sort out the complications in the plot, a convention that became known as deus ex machina ("god from a machine").

I'd love to see a place for Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things, in which an evangelist takes the word of God from a collapsing Earth to an alien planet, a book as unusual and as beautifully written as you might expect from the author of Under the Skin; and for Marlon James's Jamaican tour de force A Brief History of Seven Killings.

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In "Narnia" he offered a way to pretend — by depicting a God who is so explicitly not a God from an ordinary human church.

It "made me feel as if I was hurled by God from an imaginary paradise where I had no right to be in my uncleanliness".

Sometime, during that night he passed into the arms of GOD from an unknown heart condition.

Example: There I was, a Christian learning about God from an Atheist.

Arius taught, in accordance with an earlier subordinationist theological tradition, that the Son of God was a creature, made by God from nothing a finite time ago.

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