THE PERSONALITY OF GOD.
As the denial of the personality of God, as set forth in Chapter, has been warmly assailed by Orthodox professors since the work was issued, and as that dogma constitutes one of the principal pillars of the Orthodox faith, I propose to examine it a little further in the light of reason and science. I will present other absurdities of the doctrine in the form of questions.
1. If God is an organized personality, what should we assume to be his form, size, shape, and color?
2. How large is his body?
3. Does it occupy more than one planet?
4. If not, how can he be present in other worlds?
5. What is his physical type—Malay, Mongolian, Anglo-Saxon, or African?
6. What is his complexion—white, black, or tawny?
7. What is the color of his eyes and hair?
8. What are the dimensions of his body and the length of his arms and legs?
9. What is his position—lying, sitting, or standing?
10. How is his time occupied?
11. And as personality implies sex, and one sex not only implies the other sex, but creates a necessity lor the other sex, we are driven to ask, who is God's wife, and where is she?
12. Are they both on the same planet?
13. And have they ever been divorced? Or is he still a bachelor?
14. And as sex also implies offspring, we desire to ask, how many children have they had?
15. And whether they are all boys?
16. And, as personality also implies parentage, this brings up the question, who was God's father, grandfather, etc.
17. And as personality implies the susceptibility to anger, and the Bible-God is often represented as getting angry, and anger has been shown to be a species of insanity, would not this imply and prove that heaven is ruled by an insane God—an omnipotent luuatic?
18. And would not this virtually make heaven a lunatic asylum, and consequently a very unsuitable and disagreeable place to live in?
As all these and many other absurdities are involved in the assumption of a personal God, it is difficult to see how any reasonable being can swallow the doctrine.