None Greater BIBLES > NRSV New Revised Standard Version > Text The cabin's lone inhabitant was

The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and professor who had abandoned society decades earlier

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and the ecclesiastical politics of the day

Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority

None Greater BIBLES > NRSV New Revised Standard Version > Text The cabin's lone inhabitant wasFor too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level as if he is a God who can be tamed. But he is a God who is high and lifted up, the Creator rather than the creature, someone than whom none greater can be conceived. If God is the most perfect, supreme being, infinite and incomprehensible, then certain perfect making attributes must be true of him. Perfections like aseity, simplicity, immutability, impassibility, and