You say this God was dreamed by human genius. Be it so. Make Him a creature of fancy. What then? The man who made, or dreamed, or otherwise projected such a God must be the author of some other work of equal or approximate importance. Produce it! That is the sensible reply to so bold a blasphemy.
Singular if man has made Jehovah and then has taken to the drudgery of making oil paintings, and ink poems, and huts to live in. Where is the congruity. A man says he kindled the sun, and when asked for his proof, he strikes a match which the wind blows out! Is the evidence sufficient? Or a man says he has covered the earth with all the green and gold of summer, and, when challenged to prove it, he produces a wax flower which melts in his hands! Is the proof convincing? The God of the Bible calls for the production of other gods—gods wooden, gods stony, gods ill-bred, gods well-shaped, and done up skillfully for market uses; from His Heavens He laughs at them, and from His high throne he holds them in derision.
Again and again I demand that the second effort of human genius bear some obvious relation to the first. We wait for the evidence. We insist upon having it; and, that we may not waste our time in idle expectancy, we will meanwhile call upon God, saying, “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven!”—PARKER.
