Re: Is Brahman a Person?
Originally Posted by
Pietro Impagliazzo
I really don't get why God needs to be a person so badly. I mean, being a person is something incredibly limited....
An infinite, all-knowing, all-pervading, all-powerful entity cannot be a person. That doesn't make sense. Because if a person is here, he's already not there. If a person is fat, he cannot be thin, and so on.
I have made this argument in the past. Why does the omnipotent God require eyes to see (does he have eye lids, can he not see when they are closed, etc.). By giving this God a human figure, we are also imposing human limitations on this God. It is a logical contradiction to say he looks human, but he is not (he has eyes, but he has no use for them!).
However, Philosoraptor, who has been the main force behind the anthropomorphic position on this forum is not basing his case on logic, but on his specific interpretation of the Shruti - which is the same as that of Vaishnava systems such as Ramanuja's and Madhva's.
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