That religion and particularly Christianity presents itself on the basis of reasonable truth claims that are to be engaged and to be presented as persuasively as possible in a reasonable manner. His lecture at the Regensberg University was directed chiefly against ideological secularists on the one hand who want to radically divide faith and reason and directed against Christian thinkers who want to assert a kind of pure Biblical Christianity against the great achievement which is the synthesis of Greek philosphy and revealed truth. ...

Much more at the link.

Citing an earlier post (well worth reading in its entirety), Cobb adds:

The priesthood has a very difficult task, which is to reconcile their interpretations of the divine with their understanding of human needs. How do you dumb down the Infinite and put human beings into the middle of it such that their core moral values are lined up with what any priest or Church says is God's Will? Very difficult indeed, especially when human knowledge ebbs and flows.

If you take it as a given that God is indeed Infinite, then you have embodied in the mind of God, all the laws of the Universe - the very order of everything, whether or not we humans are able to understand it. God is purpose. God is the purpose of the universe. God is the source of human capacity to understand the Universe, such as we can, such as it is. So loving God is a difficult proposition. Unless you anthropomorphize God, you cannot 'love' God in anyway like you would love a human being.

This last point is really important, I think.

A few thoughts of my own. I am somewhat a purist about not anthropomorphizing G-d. Many respectable theologians have written eloquently to the effect that "G-d is also a person", and some people are uncomfortable with what they see as a touchy-feely, new-agey theology that prefers impersonal designations for the Divinity, such as Spirit, Way, Light, etc.

But if we allow ourselves to think of the Creator as "human", we will be disappointed. G-d is not human and does not behave according to human laws. Both our experience and our Scriptures tell us this.

So how are we to relate to G-d, especially if we believe that, in some meaningful sense, humankind is created in G-d's image?

I would suggest that we begin with, exactly, that idea. We begin, in other words, by building a relationship with G-d, and we grow by letting that relationship inform our relationships with our fellow human beings. As infants, we learn about the world around us: first, it is altogether overwhelming and incomprehensible to us. Next, it reveals itself to be a place of immutable and unforgiving laws: gravity makes us fall, heat burns us and causes pain. Eventually, we gain some understanding of these laws and, by working with them, some mastery over our own actions and our own world. Finally, when a strong wind uproots a tree, demolishing our car and wrecking our roof, we are reminded again that some things are absolutely beyond our foreknowledge or control, and we are called upon to seek answers on a deeper level. Throughout our lives we practice walking the thin line between action and acceptance. This is how we learn to live with G-d's will.

Along the way, we learn that there are other living beings out there - other humans very much like ourselves. As we mature, we develop social skills, empathy, and the capacity to love. We are confronted at every turn with the fact that other people do not always act in ways we think are "reasonable", and we are challenged to reconcile this "unreasonableness" with our own beliefs and feelings. If we are accustomed to thinking in spiritual terms, perhaps we maintain an awareness that we are all souls, all emanations of the G-dhead, and we all have a role to play in the unfolding of the cosmos. And hopefully this consciousness helps us to maintain the patience we need in dealing with others.

Humankind is created in the image of G-d. It would not be correct to say that G-d resembles humans, but it is correct to say that, in some utterly flawed, inadequate, and human fashion, we can resemble G-d.