[MarkBsnr]

***I am using "personality" to show that God is "of or relating to a person". That person is identifiable and knowable to a certain extent. That person is also rational.*** Anthropomorphizing, aren't we? Answers.com says that: Dictionary: personality (pûr'sə-năl'ĭ-tē) n., pl. -ties. The quality or condition of being a person. The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person. The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person: Though their personalities differed, they got along as friends. Distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing: won the election more on personality than on capability. God isn't a person; Jesus was and had His own human personality. The Holy Spirit sure isn't a person. ***What are you saying? Is it that God revealed the truth to Peter, and then Peter used his free will to verbalize it?*** No, I'm saying that Peter had the truth revealed and then chose to act upon it. Belief without action doesn't mean much. He didn't choose to not act, and he didn't choose to forget it or dismiss it. ***So, I would agree (I think) with you that this knowing has nothing to do with free will.*** Belief is something that we do; like love or hate. ***I refuted that with showing that free will did not concern coming to believe.*** Without the Grace of God, noone will believe. With the Grace of God, we CAN believe.

[Forest Keeper]

FK: ***I am using "personality" to show that God is "of or relating to a person". That person is identifiable and knowable to a certain extent. That person is also rational.***

Anthropomorphizing, aren't we? Answers.com says that: Dictionary: personality (pûr'sə-năl'ĭ-tē) n., pl. -ties. The quality or condition of being a person. The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person. The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person: Though their personalities differed, they got along as friends. Distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing: won the election more on personality than on capability. God isn't a person; Jesus was and had His own human personality. The Holy Spirit sure isn't a person.

No, we are not anthropomorphizing. We are recognizing that God is a personal being and He created us also as personal beings. If that is not true then you cannot relate to God on any meaningful level. He would be irrational and subject to random chance choices. It would indeed be irrational for us to follow such a being. Do you say, as a Catholic, that your own faith is wholly irrational?

The first two sentences of your dictionary definition are fine. The rest of it relates to humans and their failings. When you deny the personality of God you also deny the Catechism:

198 Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last,1 the beginning and the end of everything. The Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father is the first divine person of the Most Holy Trinity; our Creed begins with the creation of heaven and earth, for creation is the beginning and the foundation of all God's works. (emphasis added)

If the Catechism recognizes the FIRST Divine person, then it also recognizes that Holy Spirit is a person. That totally contradicts what you are saying.