I'm following this discussion with great interest, but had not intended to participate. However, Tony, I must correct you: "While DHW & David may scoff at the idea of anthropomorphic details of God's personality..." We have discussed this many times. A God without attributes is not, in my view, even worth bothering with. If I believed in him, he would be very much in our image ...a mixture of the best and the worst of our own attributes. After all, if he created everything, where else could such attributes have come from?