The Personal God by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 12, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 49.

The Personal God

By Editor

The tendency of theology of the present time is to remove from mankind the idea of the Fatherhood of God. God is not a person, but a great indefinite something pervading all nature, everywhere in general and nowhere in particular. A noble friend, a scientist, said to us the other day, "I do not think of God as being anywhere." We asked him this question, "Do you know of any manifestation of energy, or force, or power, which does not proceed from some center, some source?" Of course he could only say that he did not; that there must be a center somewhere. With God is the fountain of life and energy. And the great omnipresent God is somewhere as He is nowhere else. He is the personal God—a loving Father.