Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

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This is Todd Pruitt, and I am with, as always, my co-hostss Carl Truman and Amy Bird.

We are safely ensconced in a bunker, highly protected, highly protected from prying eyes and prying ears, and so free to say whatever our hearts want to say.

And that's all about what we are here doing, just saying what's in our heart.

And so we want to talk about a few things related to what God is like.

One of the things that we see in contemporary culture is an attempt to perhaps shape God

to fit current cultural mores or personal preferences. I was just reading this morning,

a section out of the book of Isaiah, and one of the things that struck me was just how

different the God who is portrayed in the couple of chapters I was reading from what is oftentimes

recorded in popular Christian books, sung about in

popular Christian songs, and oftentimes preached about in current sermons. Not that Isaiah gives

us an entire comprehensive picture of who God is, but oftentimes it is those prickly bits that

we tend to avoid in the church today and thereby sometimes reducing God to something that's warm and accessible and cuddly.

There's a question we want to explore a little bit today, which is, is God our therapist?

And of course, you'll want to answer immediately no, but my question is, is it true that we are treating him more and more as a therapist, talking about him in therapeutic categories, singing about him in therapeutic categories?

And if so, what's the problem with that? Doesn't God

care about our emotional and mental well-being? Well, I think we would agree that he absolutely does.

But is there something about, oh, our approach to theology over the last 150 years or so that has tended to force upon God modern or contemporary

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