When I think back across my conversion from (almost) lifelong atheism to Christianity, it seems clear that the biggest barrier was that God the creator is a person.
Even in my youth I was prepared, even keen, to adopt abstract deistic principles, and assumptions about the directional or cohesive structure of reality...
But the idea of the creator as a person was an assumption that I ruled out - quickly, effortlessly - as obviously absurd, obviously childish.
Yet now I regard creator-as-person as an absolutely foundational and essential fact (and assumption).
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Thanks, and yes. The fundamental analysis of reality must be in terms of persons. It is persons who are performing that analysis. How then otherwise? Any notion that omits to treat persons - subjects of experience, substantial beings - as basic to reality must founder.
@Kristor - In my case it has taken a very long time to founder; and I still have to contend with ingrained habits of seeing reality abstractly rather than personally.
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