[Smartass]

“Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.”

[Salvation]

Modifying Christ just won't work, will it?

1

^{1 2} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2

He was in the beginning with God.

3

³ All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be

4

through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;

5

⁴ the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.