| Yeah, it's good to have a kind of "canon" as they call it, with a writers' Bible, for continuity and consistency purposes. Especially for longtime viewers who are dedicated and quick to pick up on little things. I really enjoy the show. Really.
As for:
2. Good and evil exist.
We have seen Good manifest itself in the form of a person to Joan, but not Evil yet... if that will be Satan or another "dark adversary". I think they will eventually do it but I hope not in a Touched By An Angel way (I cannot relate to that show as much and JoA has such a unique style going for it in dealing with universal themes like suffering).
7. God is not a person and does not possess a human personality.
However, God is perceived to have a human personality depending on the form he/she takes to Joan. There are several references to this... such as God telling Joan he is snippy because "snippy" is what she understands. Not because that's what he is (because he is on an omniscent, omnipotent level) but because that's how Joan perceives God on her limited, mortal level. Likewise with other mortal limitations, such as the observation that other people get impatient with grocery store clerk God while he multitasks on the phone to bag groceries and call Joan... NOT because he is an inefficient clerk, but because this is how the humans are perceiving God (and yes, that is just SO out there and hard to explain).
One of my favorite analogies is like, you know, it's like physics to a bird. A bird can experience fundamental forces like gravity and feel the wind blowing and obviously know there is a difference between flying and resting on a branch, yet it cannot explain those states as well as human beings can -- and even in that perspective, our breadth of knowledge is unimpressively miniscule compared to the omniscence (there's that word again) of God and what we have to do, like it states in the show, is to keep on growing and making choices and going on with our lives despite all the discouragement and adversity. We'll be a lot worse off if we mope and wallow in our insecurities!
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