The Lord shave with a razor (Is. vii, 20). I [God] will cure them (Jer. xxxiii, 6). And he [God] buried him (Deut. xxxiv, 6). Thy God which teacheth thee (Is. xlviii, 17). Musical instruments of God (1 Ch. xvi, 42). He [God] wrote upon the tables (Ex. xxxiv, 28). Thy book which thou [God] hast written (Ex. xxxii, 32). O Lord, I have heard thy speech (Hab. iii, 2). The Lord is our lawgiver (Is. xxxiii, 22). The Lord is our judge (Ibid). For God is the king of all the earth (Ps. xlvii, 7). He [God] is the governor (Ps. xxii, 8). God himself is ... our captain (2 Ch. xiii, 12). The Lord is a man of war (Ex. xv, 3). The Lord hath opened his armory (Jer. i, 25). The Lord shall blow the trumpet (Zech. ix, 14). I [God] myself will fight (Jer. xxi, 5). He [God] will whet his sword (Ps. vii, 12). He [God] hath bent his bow (Lam. ii, 4). God shall shoot at them (Ps. lxiv, 7). Rocks are thrown down by him [God] (Nahum i, 6). I [God] will kill you (Ex. xxii, 24). Thou [God] art become cruel to me (Job. xxx, 21). I [God] sware in my wrath (Ps. xcv, 11). I [God] have cursed them already (Mal. ii, 1). Thy God hath blessed thee (Deut. ii, 7). The Lord repented (Amos vii, 6). God did tempt Abraham (Gen. xxii, 1). O Lord thou hast deceived me (Jer. xx, 7). He [God] hath polluted the kingdom (Lam. ii, 2). He [God] is mighty in strength (Job ix, 4). With him [God] is wisdom (Job xii, 13). I [God] was a husband (Jer. xxxi, 32). The only begotten of the Father (John i, 14). The sons of God saw the daughters of men (Gen. vi, 2). The love that God hath to us (1 John iv, 16). These six things doth the Lord hate (Prov. vi, 16). The joy of the Lord (Neh. viii, 10). It grieved him [God] at his heart (Gen. vi, 6). The Lord pitieth them that fear him (Ps. ciii, 13). I [God] feared the wrath of the enemy (Deut. xxxii, 27). The Lord ... is a jealous God (Ex. xxxiv, 14). The fierce anger of the Lord (Num. xxv, 4). With the Lord there is mercy (Ps. cxxx, 7) Vengeance is mine ... saith the Lord (Rom. xii, 10). While many of these texts are simply metaphorical allusions to a Deity, as a whole they clearly reveal the anthropomorphic conception of God that prevailed among Bible writers generally. This God was represented as a being of power and glory, yet a being possessing the form, the attributes, and the limitations of man. He was a colossal despot--a king of kings. The God of the Bible is a product of the human imagination. God did not make man in God's image, as claimed, but man made God in man's image. Man is not the creation of God, but God is the creation of man. This God who was supposed to have created the universe out of nothing has himself gradually been resolved into nothingness in the minds of his votaries, and to-day, enthroned in the brain of Christendom, there reigns a mere phantom, "without body, parts, or passions" PART III. MORALITY. CHAPTER XXV. THE BIBLE NOT A MORAL GUIDE.