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How is a personal god different from an anthropomorphic god?
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RE: How is a personal god different from an anthropomorphic god?
(December 29, 2015 at 7:52 am)Rhythm Wrote: Are you clear on what the term means, Del? A god needn't be a raingod to be an anthropomorphic god, right?
Of course. But anthropomorphic attribution works a certain way.

At the most abstract level, (1) Take x. (2) instinctively infer x is the product or extension of an anthropomorphic deity.

Almost exclusively, these bad anthropomorphisms are instinctive.

When you pay attention you find very little instinct at play in the origin of Christian theism.
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RE: How is a personal god different from an anthropomorphic god? - by Delicate - December 29, 2015 at 8:09 am

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