(October 8, 2018 at 6:18 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: The problem with trying to boil a God concept down to some abstraction, as philosophers do, is that every god is said to be a being with consciousness and willfulness. Those attributes can't be reduced to mere abstractions.
This is certainly a problem for Bible literalists and people who pray for intervention in football games.
Is it a problem for the god of the philosophers? Would you like to look at God as described by a particular philosopher and work out how he deals with consciousness and willfulness?