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'Personal nature of God we see through Christ' 

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Not the one you replied to, but Pagan understanding of God at its height is basically the Force. No point in talking to it, other than go with it's flow.

Jews/Israelites saw God as with a voice, the One who gives Commands. But otherwise, the understanding of God remains the same as with Pagans, that God is a force that cannot be comprehended. But He is definitely 'Living' in some way.

God becoming Man through Christ reveals to us that God is not just the Universal force, but also Person, in that He chose to become Man, a Person---that Particular over there, that Individual over there, sitting and having a meal with common and sinful men. Talking and intermingling with folks who are outcasts, and lift them up instead of thrashing them for unable to follow the 'flow' to the letter, which Paul calls the 'Law', ancient Taoists call, 'the Tao', and in philosophy, Moral or Natural Law.

He had revealed Himself to the gentiles as Living, and to both gentiles and jews, Someone to commune with, in other words, connect with. And when He encounters the individual outcasts, He saw through them the Person behind, instead of a hollow shell that could not follow simple commands, and then lifts them up.

And this cannot be seen from any literature prior to Christ nor of any religion prior to Christ. All they have to say is pity that we could not become gods, and are just subject to the Universal woes.

There literally was a shift after Christ had come, although gradual.

You can see the remnants of the Ancient past by the way when man can't see a person behind in East Asia. No coincidence there at all. Look at the cruelty there. That's how 'high' pagans look like in a modern setting. The low pagans would be tribal areas.