Sometime long ago I believe the church in the west made a terrible error. They took a teaching that was much like a parable and called it fact. Now millions of people accept that error. Sadly that mistake has diluted who we think God is. We have Him seem less than He is and due to that we have little to offer the world though we serve a powerful and amazing God. A God who personally made a way for us to have relationship with Him, now and in the hereafter. One God Who loves us desperately.