The Personality of God

I recently heard prosecutor Vincent Buglliosi  on the radio.  Bugliosi was promoting his new book Divinity of Doubt: The God Question  Bugliosi offers  up the old argument that the existence of evil/ suffering in the  world proves that God does not exist. 

Buliosi argues that God, if He existed, must by definition, be both all-powerful and all-good (all-loving). An all loving God  would not  allow suffering unless he was powerless to prevent it; an all-powerful God would not allow suffering if he were truly all-loving.  Therefore God does not exist.

But God, like people, is more than what He does or fails to do.   I am a person.  I am defined as much by my physical characteristics height, eye and hair color, etc.), interests (writing, collectables etc.), and values(Christian faith, family etc.) as I am by my actions or inactions.  It is these things that distinquish me from a chair,  an animal or other persons. This is my Personhood.

God too is a Person, who is, surprisingly exactly who Bugliosi says He should be.  God is distinquished from the creation around him because God is in fact All-powerful and All-loving, and the world is not these things.  If creation did not have evil/suffering, we would be unable to distinquish it from God.

The Christian faith is correct in that it recogizes the Personhood of God.  By contrast, Bugliosi, who claims intellectual superiority for agnosticism, can only imagine a god found in the most primitive forms of tribal animism.