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In Jewish tradition, Hashem/Elokim ("Lord God") is undifferentiated and utterly Singular... This ideal "Echad" ("One"; singular, unique Unity) tolerates no differentiation ("a jealous God"), and no qualities knowable to us (beyond Singular All-Inclusiveness).

The theology is flawed even upon a cursory examination. God is one AND also has distinct parts. For example, the scriptures refer to His hand. It does not matter that this is metaphorical. If the Unity claim in your friend's argument where true, even metaphorical references to God's parts would be building idols in the mind.

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Joshua 4:24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that you might fear the LORD your God forever.

Intelligent Design requires god to apply a structured logic to the world, in order to force evolution.

It does not require that God's "logic" be limited to our comprehension of it. His "logic" can and must be superior to our logic.

Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
[9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

no qualities knowable to us [other than sinularity] ???

What about the many titles of God? His qualities are knowable by the very text which your friend claims to validate his wrong ideas. God is Holy, Pure, Faithful, Gentle, Kind, Strong, Patient, and on and on. It seems your friend is hiding from God behind a veneer of religious speculation.

Funny you should mention the "Hand of the Lord"! It seems that the "First Hand" made the letters!

Stan Tenen shows how all the Hebrew letters can be made by projecting this "hand" onto a two-dimensional surface. When we talk about these things, we have to use models and projections of higher-dimensional things into the world as we understand it. That is not making idols, unless you worship them.

Let's take the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 on the mount. Clearly that's an advanced xerox machine at work from a higher scientific technology. Note the 3D "fabber" just announced at Cornell University.

Arthur Clarke's Third Law : a sufficiently advanced technology will seem like MAGIC to a less advanced technology. Alien technology is obviously far in advance of our 300 year young science, they've had billions of years to perfect it.

The laws/tools/equations/theories of science are NEUTRAL, ANYONE can discover them. Are you so self-centered that you thnk YOU are the geatest genius in the universe? Pride goeth before a fall..

Then there's the SERMON on the mount. Clearly there is a cosmic PETA group that produced our lord Jesus as an in vitro implant in the host mother Mary. And here that GOD-PETA philosophy is being TOLD to you, from billions of years worth of knowledge, wisdom, understanding. And there is SO much you could learn from the shroud of Turin.

You can deny it in your satanic arrogance, or come to realize that YOU will be judged upon how YOU accepted or rejected that sermon. Opportunity knocks but once, temptation leans on the doorbell.

In revelation it is said that there is a WAR in heaven, is it only a spiritual war, or a REAL war, a star wars war as a cosmic battle line advancing across the cosmos. Soon the earth will be a smoking crater, who will be there to save you from the flames? And what is the FIRST commandment?