How to Think of God as a Person Like Us

If God is a fully actual being with no admixture of potentiality, then perhaps it's difficult to think of him as a person like us. To be a person is to be an individual being with a rational nature; thinking and acting rationally is all about actualizing potentialities. We grasp ideas, which means actualizing our potentiality to grasp them. We reason from one thing to another, which means de-actualizing our potentialy to think about the second thing. And we decide to do things, which means starting from not having settled on what to do to later settling on it. But God is always already there, and he needed no help to get there, and in