How is a personal god different from an anthropomorphic god?

[Pizza]

LOL, such a staller.  Your troll-fu is weak.

He said, stroking his neckbeard as a thin film of Cheetos dust coated his mantits.

If you're not going to adding thing, please just leave the thread. No, one is holding your hand making you post in this thread.

[Pizza]

Well, the thing is that we ARE a part of nature, i.e. nature acts through us, not from us.  So a personal God would have feelings-- and would need to have something to have feelings ABOUT.  It would need a will-- and would need some reason to choose one action over another.

In other words, a personal God fails to infinite regress pretty much right away.

That's an interesting way of looking at because apologists normally argue for a necessary being that is cut off from the universe by being necessary and not dependent on anything external to god's nature.

[Delicate]

He said, stroking his neckbeard as a thin film of Cheetos dust coated his mantits.

If you're not going to adding thing, please just leave the thread. No, one is holding your hand making you post in this thread.

[Pizza]

Whatever.

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I'm wondering where the line between weak atheism and a thinner nuanced non-classical view of a personal cause is? Let's say the traditional family of arguments for the existence of a personal cause fail to support the classical theistic view but instead support a personal cause that is very much not like a human being. How is that different from any form of atheism?

[The Grand Nudger]

He said, stroking his neckbeard as a thin film of Cheetos dust coated his mantits.

Completely spent after 3 pages?  Work on your stamina.

[Mudhammam]

Do you realize that belief in God for both Christians and Jews predated Jesus?

Clearly.

So how can Jesus represent the origin of anthropomorphic deity ascription for either tradition?

What part of God's procession of love, the spiration known as the Holy Ghost, impregnating a girl and having God's only begotten son, did they fail to teach you in Sunday school? Or that the Jewish and Christian Gods sit on a throne (metaphorically or not), awaiting the day that the Messiah or God's son, arrives upon earth in the form of a man (pretty sure they meant that literally), for the first or second time depending on which group of silly believers we're talking about, at which point each person will be judged and sent to the equivalent of Homer's Isles of the Blest or Hades, did you miss? Must I really have need to continue or do you simply not consider such shoddy storytelling "bad anthropomorphism"?

[Pizza]

Do you realize that belief in God for both Christians and Jews predated Jesus?

Clearly.

So how can Jesus represent the origin of anthropomorphic deity ascription for either tradition?

What part of God's procession of love, the spiration known as the Holy Ghost, impregnating a girl and having God's only begotten son, did they fail to teach you in Sunday school? Or that the Jewish and Christian Gods sit on a throne (metaphorically or not), awaiting the day that the Messiah or God's son, arrives upon earth in the form of a man (pretty sure they meant that literally), for the first or second time depending on which group of silly believers we're talking about, at which point each person will be judged and sent to the equivalent of Homer's Isles of the Blest or Hades, did you miss? Must I really have need to continue or do you simply not consider such shoddy storytelling "bad anthropomorphism"?

Most Christians seem to know nothing about the history of theology and philosophy of religion. Sunday school is dumbed down kiddy theology taught by know nothings. So Delicate's replies aren't surprising.