http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/11/27/3641465.htm

God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others, and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his demands, sets up his own law, and judges the brethren and God Himself accordingly. He stands adamant, a living reproach to all others in the circle of brethren. He acts as if he is the creator of the Christian community, as if his dream binds men together. When things do not go his way, he calls the effort a failure. When his ideal picture is destroyed, he sees the community going to smash. So he becomes, first an accuser of his brethren, then an accuser of God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

God grounds reality and in the theological sense the goodness of the worlds life but does not answer specific why questions. If we need god simply in order to understand and accept our very reality, then our relation to god in particular circumstances will not be of need in the ordinary sense a desperate effort to make god supply this or that desired gratfication. We should be instead be capable of receiving god as pure gift, unexpected good news as energy absolutely uncontainable, me irreducible different, as God.

A mechanistic metaphysic is combined with a sentimental account of God, in this way the pagan assumption that god or the gods are to be judged by how well it or they insure the successful outcome of human purposes is underwritten in the name of Christianity. It is assumed that the attributes of such a god or gods can be known and characterized abstractly. But the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not the god that creates something called the problem of evil; rather, that problem is created by a god about which the most important facts seem to be that it exists and is morally perfect aswell as all=powerful – that is, the kind of god that emperors need to legitimate the ‘necessity’ of their rule.