Benjamin Cain
Jul 3, 2024

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How could "the absolute" be especially personal? Why isn't that more likely a subjective personification, as in a human prejudice projected onto the inhuman source of the natural order? The absolute is an abstraction, like the rest of the classical theist's metaphysics, whereas God's personhood is a folk attribute that makes sense only on a less intellectual picture.

You're trying to have it both ways, but your analysis will naturally come apart at this seam. The more you stress God's absoluteness, the less personal God will seem since God will no longer be any kind of particular, meaning that he won't be knowable as anything. And the more you stress God's personal qualities, the less philosophically respectable your theism will be.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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