The difference between the ideas of God expressed in the Bible and those of many theologians is very wide indeed.
It is very strange indeed that anyone who had ever read the Bible--and believed it in the least--could have a conception of God as distant and far withdrawn from His creatures, when He tells us explicitly that He is "not far from every one of us," (Acts 17:27) that He is always within hearing distance, yes, even always within reach.
How many there have been,--and indeed how many there are, who think of God as a stern and unrelenting Judge, as much a god of bloodshed and war as Mars, or the idol Juggernaut! Very different was the conception of King David when he wrote the one 136th Psalm, beginning, "O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His mercy endures for ever." (Psalm 136:1)
Throughout the whole 26 verses that is the refrain of each: "for His mercy endures for ever."--Present Truth, April 29, 1897--Psalm 136:1.