Originally Posted By: samwik
Is that what people mean when they talk about a "personal God?"


A 'Personal God' is simply about the difference in Theism and Deism.

Deists believe that an intelligence created the universe, but has no particular interest in it. I have heard it said that it is like a god that winds up the universe like a clock and then leaves it to wind down on its own.

Theists believe in a creative intelligence that is interested in the universe, all the way down to every individual the universe produces - e.g. the verse 'I knit you together in the womb'.

Blacknad.