improved on. In this aspect, God is an “It.” He is as unapproachable and as immovable as the universe around us which He has created. It is possible to enter into a relationship with pure power, but the resulting relationship tends to be one-sided, more like that between a master and his slave. The slave’s knowledge of the master is limited. He is trained to act on orders without questioning them, to obey without scrutiny. Many relationships with God look like exactly that. People who have this sort