Think of the attributes of God. They all comprise the nature of the one God. If we eliminate or ignore any of those attributes, we come away with something that is less than God. For example, if you take all the justice, judgment and hatred of sin out of the nature of God, you have nothing left but a soft God. And those who have taken love and grace out end up with nothing but a God of judgment. Take away the personality of God and you have nothing but a mathematical God like the God of the scientists. All these are false, inadequate conceptions of God.
Our God is a God of justice and a God of grace; and while He is the God of righteousness, He also is the God of mercy. And. while He is a God of mathematical exactness, He is also a God that could take babies in His arms and pat their heads and smile. He is a God that can forgive and a God that does forgive.—A.W. Tozer, Living as a Christian, 215
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