Many people have a vague idea of God; they think of Him as a force, power, or influence. The New Agers think of God as a power, but Christianity presents Him as a personality! The movie Star Wars depicts Him as The Force; a kind of supernatural abstract thing. They speculate of a spiritual entity that has a universal presence, omnipotence, if you please.
Never confuse personality with visibility. Pantheism maintains everything is God, and God is everything. Thus God is identified with nature, and not independent and separate from it. And so God becomes an unconscious force working in the world. Therefore, substance alone has nothing to do with personality. It is impossible to fellowship with a force or influence.
Communion is between two persons, in this instance, God and man. For this to happen there must of necessity be: intelligence, mind, will, reason, individuality, and self-consciousness. Not just consciousness; an animal has that. Moses spoke to God as friend to Friend. And so do I, and so can you, dear child of God. “And He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me I am His own.”
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