as He is in Himself and those that distort the reality of God as He is in Himself. Scripture is authorized to do this as God’s self-revelation. Therefore the task of theology, which is the study of God, is to allow the biblical view of God to rise to a greater level of clarity, and in so doing, call into question all distortions to the contrary. The degree to which this is successful is the degree to which God can use theology to facilitate the resolution to the cosmic controversy. Unfortunately,