“Human language is necessarily inadequate whenever men speak about God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. But there is creaturely inadequacy, a holy limitation, revealed in virtually every word of Scripture, and then there is an impudent inadequancy. The thing which differentiates the two is not the element of anthropomorphic images (which are ubiquitous and unavoidable), but rather an ethical and aesthetic difference. Certain creaturely images of God are worthy of Him, and others are not. His grace in forgiving our sins can readily be compared to the healing of leprosy, but it cannot be compared to a really good decongestant. His salvation is like living water, and not at all like zippy Diet Dr. Pepper. the inability to those in the Openness of God camp to see how their portrayal of God clanks, is, at bottom, a failure of the imagination” (“The Loveliness of Orthodoxy” in Bound Only Once, p. 24).
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