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	No Personal God
		To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
		In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests.
		I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar.
	www.einsteinandreligion.com /personal.html (496 words)

	The Buddhist Attitude to God
		God is generally considered as being concerned with the welfare of his human creatures, and the ultimate salvation of those who follow his dictates.
		God is therefore a person of some kind, and the question whether such an entity exists or not is fundamental to all theistic systems.
		The use of the term "God' to denote an abstract reality by monotheistic theologians who have no theory of karma is difficult to justify; one suspects that this is merely a device to explain away the contradictions that arise from the notion of a personal God.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /buddhist_attitude_to_god.htm (3204 words)

	Personal God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the case of the Christian belief in the Trinity, God is a personal being in manifested in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
		Jehovah, the jealous God of the Torah, was the personal God of the Jews.
		In medieval theology, God was frequently envisioned as behaving like a king, haughty and unconcerned with the fate of his vassals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personal_God (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: God
		Discusses the root-meaning of the name "God", which is derived from Gothic and Sanskrit roots.
		The world is essentially dependent on God, and this dependence implies (1) that God is the Creator of the world -- the producer of its whole substance; and (2) that its continuance in being at every moment is due to His sustaining power.
		The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three truly distinct Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06608a.htm (221 words)

	God
		God himself must speak to humankind if he is to be known rightly, or even at all, and therefore faith, as a response to divine Revelation, is the only path to a true knowledge of God.
		Although free from unworthy and uncontrolled emotions, God is caringly related to the poor, the unfortunate, the lonely, the sorrowing, the sick, the victims of prejudice, injustice, anxiety, and despair.
		God's transcendent holiness is biblically balanced with the teaching of his immanence, which signifies that he is wholly present in his being and power in every part and moment of the created universe.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/god.htm (15925 words)

	God Realization Personal Experience of God
		To think, by your not killing the pests we are doing service to "God" is wrong for the pests have their own limited Life and if they are a nuisance to us (the most advanced species of the World) they must be annihilated lest we may suffer at their hands.
		God is not a being and is formless.
		God is the center point from where all creation started and all things in the Universe are connected to it by a divine string.
	www.godrealized.org /story_of_my_personal_experience.html (1737 words)

	God
		Thus God is not only in the heart of all, he is the prop of all, he is the source of all, their abiding place and their end.
		The order of the great multitude of worlds is maintained by the mere presence of God in the same manner as the needle moves in front of a magnet, and as the moonstone emits water, the water-lily blossoms and the lotus closes in front of the moon.
		In the mere presence of God, who does not have even the least volition, the living beings, who are engaged in innumerable activities, are embarking upon many paths to which they are drawn according to the course determined by their own Karmas, finally realise the futility of action, turn back to Self and attain liberation.
	www.hinduism.co.za /god.htm (2827 words)

	A Study of God as Personal: God the Father
		The concept of the personality of God is the measure of religious maturity.
		God is the bestower, conservator, and destiny of personality.
		God bestows himself upon his spirit children and makes personal contact with mortals by means of his prepersonal fragments.
	www.ubfellowship.org /archive/readers/doc197.htm (1015 words)

	All Religions Lead to God? Can One Discern the True Religion?
		For God to put so much time and care into the design of the universe and life, it would seem logical to conclude that God really cared about His creation, and would be personally involved in it.
		A God who did not care about his creation would never be expected to spend 14 billion years of development just so that humans would have a nice place to live for a few thousand years.
		Jesus Christ is God Himself, who came to earth, led a sinless life, and died on the cross as a sacrifice to take the sins of mankind.
	www.godandscience.org /apologetics/allreligions.php (1187 words)

	onegoodmove: A Personal God
		God or Nature are one and the same, labels for the same concept.
		Whilst Einstein was not a beliver of a personal God, Newton in contrast was not only a believer, but in his time one of the foremost authorities on religion, he regularly translated religious texts from latin to english.
		Belief or non-belief in a God appears not to hinder discovery of the natural laws of the universe.
	onegoodmove.org /1gm/1gmarchive/2007/07/a_personal_god.html (1952 words)

	The personal God
		God must be a person, then, in that he decrees beforehand, makes choices among the children of men (I loved Jacob and hated Esau) and has a fixed plan for the future, throughout eternity.
		The personality of God is manifested in the preservation of the Universe.
		God, the supreme and most high, is the Commander of the angelic armies (1 Kings 22:19; Luke 2:13; Revelation 19:14) and of the armies of Israel (1 Samuel 17:45).
	www.tecmalta.org /tft130.htm (1436 words)

	The Validity of Belief in a Personal God
		Persons who used the latter phrases plainly did not intend to deny that German princes are opaque to light, or that Charles II was sometimes inclined to be a little careless about the higher spiritual values.
		I think that we ought to confine the word 'God' to the theological and the popular senses of it; and that, unless we have reason to believe in the existence of a God or Gods in one of these senses, we ought not to say that we believe in the existence of God at all.
		Whether there be in fact a personal God or not, it seems to me that we have no good reason to believe in the existence of such a being.
	www.ditext.com /broad/vbpg.html (7064 words)

	It's Happening Global Discussion Forum - Describe your personal God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
		And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
		God is a trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
	www.itshappening.com /printthread.php?t=82840 (3023 words)

	A Personal History of God
		A God who watched each of us and was able to intervene at any time was an oppressive, even insane presence, surely a serial killer for permitting serial murder to exist in the world.
		Statements such as "God gives you what you need," or (when a girl in Hebrew school ran away, then died in a fire) "God called her" or "God moves in mysterious ways" were unbearable.
		God, she seems to think, should be a beacon, drawing us out of ourselves, while a personal God, created in our own image, may be greedy, dishonest or racist like us, and therefore confirms our complacency.
	www.spectacle.org /1095/god.html (2933 words)

	the god of religion, god of philosophy, ∓ god of mysticism
		"God" is usually thought of as a sort of person up in "heaven", who creates the entire universe and all beings in it out of nothing, and then reveals Himself to humankind through a sort of cosmic rule-book, a Bible or whatever.
		So the God of Philosophers is often so abstract as to be meaningless, just as the God of religion is so petty as to be ridiculous.
		Unlike the "God of philosophy", this is not an unknowable principle, but rather one's own innermost Self (or "not-Self" as the case may be).
	www.kheper.net /topics/religion/God.htm (567 words)

	Personal God
		The idea of the personal God is found in John 4:23 where the inspired writer writes, "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him."
		When a person seeks a relationship with God, it is an attempt to establish a direct link between God and the seeker.
		God is not too busy or important to establish this link with the seeker.
	www.chicago-cog.org /personal.htm (272 words)

	What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God?
		God, our heavenly Father, has always desired to be close to us, having a relationship with us.
		God sent His Son to take on our sin, be killed, and then be raised again, proving His victory over sin and death.
		And God is the one who sent Jesus to do it; they are one in the same, and both deserve all of our honor, praise, and worship.
	www.gotquestions.org /personal-relationship-with-God.html (802 words)

	A Personal God
		God could have created a systematic spiritual supercomputer in which justice would be pre-programmed as a natural outgrowth and response to all actions, for good or for evil.
		Even if God was omniscient, man would not need to know and be aware of this fact, and Rambam would not need to list God's omniscience as a principle that is needed to relate to God and Torah in this imaginary system that we are suggesting.
		May we all merit not only to feel God's personal love and concern in judgment, but God's beautiful blessings and rewards as the result of a positive verdict for long life, peace, and good tidings for us and for all of Israel.
	aish.com /torahportion/kolyaakov/A_Personal_God.asp (1821 words)

	Ask God Your Personal Question \| Heavenletters Beta
		While we encourage everyone to try their own hand at asking God questions (and invite you to take a Godwriting Workshop), we also want to give help when it is asked for.
		Dear God, there is one area of my life where my heart feels a lack of Your fullness, and I want so much to have this area be the fullest expression of love.
		Dear God, there was a preliminary court hearing yesterday that went very badly for me. The court said the prenuptial agreement MAY be invalid, which, in any case, means I now have to turn over my financial records to this man and his attorney, and they will put together their claims.
	www.heavenletters.org /askgod.html (948 words)

	That God Truly is a Personal God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For a person who believes in a higher power, there are normally two conflicting directions for the believer to go when he queries the attributes of that higher power.
		I am convinced that God, seeking to express himself in us, instilled within us a free will, a spirit of creativity, the capacity to love, a propensity to be amazed and curious, an insatiable hunger for peace, and an ever-flowering yearning for joy.
		God is love, and God is extremely, passionately engaged in our daily hopes and joys, for wherever there is such a personal act as genuine love, there is the almighty God.
	members.aol.com /jacoblouis/personalgod.html (1225 words)

	Matt: Beyond the Personal God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		God is the oneness of the cosmos, the interconnectedness of all there is. But "God is a name that we attach to this oneness.
		God is the oneness that is no particular thing, no thingness, Nothingness with a capital N. Ayin is not empty or barren; it is fertile and overflowing, engendering the myriad forms of life.
		Those who believe in a personal God who knows and cares have to rationalize earthquakes and fire and the death of children---or else insulate themselves from whatever facts threaten to deface their fragile portrait of God.
	www.jrf.org /jrf-oldsite/matt.html (4151 words)

	A Personal God
		If God being a member of the community was not a very evident fact of life before the birth of Jesus, it is certainly clear from the New Testament that in taking on the form of a man, the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, has indeed joined Himself to our humanity.
		It was a person (not the person she had thought), yet also a thing, a made thing, made to please Another and in Him to please all others, a thing being made at this very moment, without its choice, in a shape it had never dreamed of.
		God, the Creator and Judge and Master of the community must inevitably move decisively to judge, to heal and to restore that community.
	www.ldolphin.org /personalgod.html (3031 words)

	Ishta Devata or Personal God
		God can be worshipped and prayed in the form of a chosen deity (Ishta Devatã) in the temples and in home shrines.
		Ishta Devata is that aspect of God which a follower of Bhaktiyoga chooses for worship and contemplation.
		God and the Gods of Hinduism was created and published by Himalayan Academy, 107 Kaholalele Road, Kapaa HI 96746.
	hindunet.com /god/ista_devata/index.htm (339 words)

	On prayer; purpose in nature; meaning of life; the soul; a personal God
		He was irreverent about various aspects of formal religion, speaking about the millions of people who prayed to God in many languages, and remarking that God must have an enormous clerical staff to keep track of all their sins.
		The question of God had arisen in the course of a discussion in a literary group, and some of the members decided to ask eminent men to send their views in a form that would be suitable for publication.
		I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
	www.sacred-texts.com /aor/einstein/einprayr.htm (1830 words)

	Allah is Not a Personal God
		The God of Israel is a Personal God who is known and loved by millions.
		The concept is reminiscent of the Jewish belief that God's true name, whispered to Moses at the burning bush, is unknown and too awesome to comprehend.
		God is a magnificent figure to emulate -- to strive to become even a little like God.
	www.ldolphin.org /impersonal.html (1640 words)

	Personal Spiritual Growth
		The Lord God gives us a mental, emotional, and spiritual peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7) He has many more blessings for us that are brought through the Holy Spirit.
		Not one gift is superior to another and they all come from God for the purpose of building up the church, helping it to function more effectively, and bring us closer to Him.
		He is the true God and eternal life” (1 John 5:20).
	www.allaboutgod.com /personal-spiritual-growth.htm (576 words)

	Booklet > Who Is God? > The Personal Nature of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The one who became Jesus Christ, declared to be on the same plane of existence as God the Father, was born as a human being and perceived by and through the physical senses of human beings—particularly His early inner core of disciples, including the very one who wrote these words, John.
		John wrote that the Word, who was with God from the beginning, lived among them in the human flesh.
		God the Father is the undisputed Head of the family.
	www.ucg.org /booklets/WG/natureofgod.htm (1611 words)

	Tisha B’Av and a Personal God
		God stands back and allows the world to run its natural course, and He will only interfere when absolutely necessary.
		It is at these times that we must muster the strength to continue to believe in a God that is involved in the world, in a God who cares, while at the same time not trivializing or lying to ourselves about the immensity, and hence, incomprehensibility, of the tragedies that we have experienced.
		And hence, the destruction of the Temple, far from being a sign of God’s abandonment of the Jewish people, is in fact as sign of his relationship with them.
	www.hir.org /torah/linzer/tishabav.htm (1173 words)

	Personal and Impersonal God by C.Jinarajadasa
		Though a Mohammedan will admit that other prophets of God have appeared before, and reverence is given especially to Jesus Christ, he asserts that the Prophet Mohammed is the last of the prophets, and it is therefore our duty to follow the last whom God has sent.
		They are definitely "anti-personal" in their idea of God, and some go to the extent of proclaiming that the Masters are against such a conception.
		That is why I say that there must be some kind of a root of personality in the Absolute, in the same kind of a way that in the tiny seed of a great banyan tree the tree is latent inside one cell.
	www.theosophical.ca /PersonalGod.htm (3895 words)

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