herwin's Journal: A Personal God

Another feature of most Christian faith is a belief in a personal
God--a God you can pray to and interact with as a person. The
problem is this is inconsistent with a belief in divine omnipotence/omniscience.
The Greek philosophers were aware of a version of this problem--a
perfect god cannot be affected by events in time. Here's the argument:
Einstein's theory of special relativity implies that there is
no preferred definition of 'now'-- any two events separated by
a space-like interval will be simultaneous for some accelerated
observer. Hence an omniscient God will be able to perceive both
locations simultaneously. This argument can be done a second time
for all points in a time-like relationship to the first, implying
that our space-time can be perceived simultaneously as a whole
by an omniscient God. Hence the Christian God is outside space-time,
making the existence of a personal relationship a dubious proposition.