What are some of the causes of spiritual depression? The answer, as we noted in the previous chapter, seems to lie in something Luther once said to the humanist Erasmus: ‘Your thoughts of God are too human.’ Echoes of this charge are found here, too. “ ‘To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One … Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The