Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Gender of God -- More or less than a person? Message-ID: <499@bunker.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 17:29:04 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.499 Posted: Thu Aug 16 17:29:04 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 11:34:19 EDT Lines: 19 Rich Rosen remarks: I thought god was "depersonalized". AHA! If I thought that, I wouldn't be interested in God, either. The term "depersonalized" suggests something less than a person. Perhaps a better term would be "superpersonalized." If you think that humanity is the best (or most intelligent, or most powerful, or most whatever) that there is, then it follows that anything (God included) would be less than human. But if you think that humanity is imperfect, and that there is therefore the possibility that something better exists, then something (such as God) could be more than human. God has feelings, too. Gary Samuelson bunker!garys "What is UNDER the brick?"