'A God who was only holy would not have come down to us in
Jesus Christ. He would have simply demanded that we pull ourselves together,
that we be moral and holy enough to merit a relationship with him. A deity that
was an ‘all‐accepting God of love’ would not have needed to come to Earth
either. This God of the modern imagination would have just overlooked sin and
evil and embraced us. Neither the God of moralism nor the God of relativism
would have bothered with Christmas.'
(Tim Keller)
