人格神(英语:personal god)或人格女神(personal goddess)是可以作为一个人[1]而不是作为一种非人格力量,例如绝对的“一切”或“存在的基础”的神灵。
在亚伯拉罕宗教的经文中,上帝被描述为个人的创造者,以第一人称说话并表现出愤怒和骄傲等情感,有时以拟人化的形式出现。[2]例如,在摩西五经中,上帝与他的先知交谈并指示他,并被认为具有意志、情感(如愤怒、悲伤和快乐)、意向和其他人类特征。个人与上帝的关系可以用与人类关系相同的方式来描述,例如基督教中的圣父,或苏菲派中的朋友。[3]
皮尤研究中心2019年的一项调查报告称,在美国成年人中,70%的人认为“上帝是一个人们可以与之建立关系的人”,而15%的人认为“上帝是一种非个人的力量”。[4]国家意见研究中心2019年的一项调查报告称,77.5%的美国成年人相信人格神。[5]皮尤进行的2014年宗教景观调查报告称,77%的美国成年人相信人格神。[6]
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"The man who realizes God as a friend is never lonely in the world, neither in this world nor in the hereafter. There is always a friend, a friend in the crowd, a friend in the solitude; or while he is asleep, unconscious of this outer world, and when he is awake and conscious of it. In both cases the friend is there in his thought, in his imagination, in his heart, in his soul." Inayat Khan, quoted from The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
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- Jain, Vijay K, Acarya Pujyapada's Istopadesa – the Golden Discourse, 2014-03-26 [2021-08-25], ISBN 9788190363969, (原始内容存档于2021-11-03)
- Sangave, Vilas Adinath, Aspects of Jaina religion 3, Bharatiya Jnanpith, 2001 [2021-08-25], ISBN 81-263-0626-2, (原始内容存档于2022-03-16)
- Rankin, Aidan, Chapter 1. Jains Jainism and Jainness, Living Jainism: An Ethical Science, John Hunt Publishing, 2013 [2021-08-25], ISBN 978-1780999111, (原始内容存档于2022-03-17)
- Jain, Vijay K. Ācārya Nemichandra's Dravyasaṃgraha. 2013 [2021-08-25]. ISBN 9788190363952. (原始内容存档于2022-04-14).
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