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by David Turell , Friday, July 19, 2024, 18:03 (50 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: God is not schizophrenic, my personal views of Him are as explored and answered in the other thread.

dhw: As on the other thread: You believe he is benevolent, and you believe he is not human in any way. This can only mean you believe in two different gods; two different beings in one = Jekyll and Hyde = schizophrenic, or whatever medical term you wish to use to indicate this form of mental disease.

You want positivity in beliefs. It doesn't exist, except 'God is a personage like no other person'. That is Adler's logical starting point in 'how to think about God'. One God can have many viewpoints humans take. My split views don't split God!!

DAVID: I'm not embarrassed at taking two views.

dhw: You don’t seem to realize that you are making statements that contradict each other:if it is possible that your God has human attributes, you can’t say that he is not human in any way!

That is why Adler tells us to apply any attributes in an allegorical way. We cannot know how they apply to a non-human God.

DAVID: Your highly humanized God is like none I have ever met before.

dhw: You complained that you had never met a God like mine. Clearly you failed to meet the Gods of deism and of process theology, and equally clearly you have never met a God like the one you now believe in, who is benevolent but not benevolent, wants to be worshipped but can’t want to be worshipped, is a perfect but imperfect designer, probably has human attributes but is not human in any way etc. And to cap it all, these are now your beliefs but they are not your beliefs.

I certainly know deism and progress theism. That God I've met is Adler's, in His philosophy of God.