In giving the above brief sketch of the known universe my object
was to suggest that the Creator of a universe of such scope and
grandeur must be a Being of vast power and the loftiest dignity.

Now, the Christians claim that their God created this universe--
not the universe He is described, in His own inspired word, as
creating, but the universe revealed by science; the universe of
twenty millions of suns.

And the Christians claim that this God is a God of love, a God
omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal. And the Christians claim
that this great God, the Creator of our wonderful universe, is
the God revealed to us in the Bible.

Let us, then, go to the Bible, and find out for ourselves whether
the God therein revealed is any more like the ideal Christian
God than the universe therein revealed is like the universe
since discovered by man without the aid of divine inspiration.

As for the biblical God, Jahweh, or Jehovah, I shall try to show
from the Bible itself that He was not all-wise, nor all-powerful,
nor omnipresent; that He was not merciful nor just; but that, on
the contrary, He was fickle, jealous, dishonourable, immoral,
vindictive, barbarous, and cruel.

Neither was He, in any sense of the words, great nor good. But,
in fact, He was a tribal god, an idol, made by man; and, as the
idol of a savage and ignorant tribe, was Himself a savage and
ignorant monster.