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    If worship can be fittingly directed at what surpasses hu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Trinity must be a person.

    If worship can be fittingly directed at what surpasses human conceptual frameworks, the inference from 'worthy of worship' to 'must be a person' fails.

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    • 1.Worship can be directed at natural phenomena (storms, mountains) without attributing personhood, suggesting personhood isn't a necessary condition.
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    • 2.Conceptual frameworks are human constructs; what genuinely transcends them need not fit human categories like 'person' or 'agent'.
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    • 3.Many religious traditions worship the impersonal (Brahman, the Tao, the Absolute) as worthy of devotion despite their non-personal nature.
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    • 1.Worship inherently involves gratitude, petition, or obedience—intentional responses requiring a conscious recipient, thus presupposing personhood.
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    • 2.Calling something 'worthy of worship' is meaningful only if it can understand or deserve that worship, which requires at minimum agent-like properties.
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    • 3.Impersonal nature-worship is metaphorical or aesthetic appreciation, not genuine worship, so it doesn't establish non-personal worship's coherence.
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