[Mad Dawg]

Amen. Scripture reveals to us a personal God. And the alternative is unthinkable.

Well, ultimately boring. All the neat stuff about Forest Keeper is at best irrelevant in the non-personal God view, I think.

I'd guess the basic Manichean deal ends up with a god whose worship involves the extinction of the self. And, of course, we have similar language when we talk about dying in Christ and so forth.

But "similar" is not "same" and the difference is HUGE.

[Forest Keeper]

I'd guess the basic Manichean deal ends up with a god whose worship involves the extinction of the self. And, of course, we have similar language when we talk about dying in Christ and so forth. But "similar" is not "same" and the difference is HUGE.

True enough. :)