Please, no lengthy sermons. I do want an answer, just don't flood me with book, chapter and verse. Give me an answer in your own words. Thanks.
2006-08-09 07:06:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A detailed, precise and knowledgeable definition of God? Impossible. The religious collective has never been able to come up with a definition with which most everyone can agree. Why expect some anonymous yahoo on Yahoo to provide an answer that might in any way resemble the "correct" answer (if there even is one)?
2006-08-10 10:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
God is just another fake creation by man.
Humanity has created many Gods, for example – Gods of Olympus, Ancient Egypt, Babylon and so on. Most of us are atheists about most Gods humanity has created, except the latest craze, the current God in the Bible. Learned atheists have also rejected this version of a God, but some hard-core believers still hang on, presumably until a better image of God is created by man.
Faith in God seems to be nothing more than humans attempting to run away from reality, an excuse to avoid thinking and evaluating evidence. Faith is just an emotional escape and really just a substitute for opening your eyes to reason.
Believers talk about God creating man in his own image. It’s in the Bible so it’s fact – get a grip, get real. The facts suggest the exact opposite. Man created God in his own image. I’m sure humanity will disregard this God, as they have disregarded all previous Gods, it’s just a matter of time before humanity creates another God that better serves their emotions and image.
2006-08-09 07:11:43 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Oh wait, those aren't my words, they're John Lennon's...
Okay, for me God is a concept created by people who had little knowledge of the universe and sought to find answers. Also, it's a concept that allows people to feel better about death. Additionally, it's a concept that has been used to forces the masses into submission and to keep the powerful in power.
2006-08-09 07:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is pure spirit, an eternal independent self-excistant deity manifesting himself in the invisible and visible realms that he created. He is the Blue print or the Archtype pattern of the Universe. He is the ultimate source substance limits and bounds of all things known and unknown, the all in all and thats all.
2006-08-09 07:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by musicisme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is a spirit that has always been here, even before there was a "here". He is hard for us to understand fully, since we are creatures with beginnings and ends. Someone with no beginning and no end can be difficult to wrap our minds around. That's where faith comes into it. He created all that is. He created us with free will to choose to believe in Him or not, because He wants a relationship (communication and love) with us. He is spirit and our spirits are the part of us that goes on forever and are created in His image.
2006-08-09 07:19:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the totality of all things-- time, space, experience, life, everything. Everything that exists (or can exist, has existed, or will exist) is a manifestation of God. The characteristics of God are unity, transcendence,and self-awareness.
What does this mean?
- Unity means there is nothing that is not a part of God, including all the people who have ever existed, and all of their experiences.
- Transcendence is a harder concept, and requires you to think of Time as a whole. We exist within time, and so perceive ourselves as moving through it; but God exists outside of time and contains it. (ie: God transcends time and space.)
- Self-awareness means God knows everything about "himself." This includes all the events that occur in time or space, all the experiences and perceptions that anyone (or anything) has, everything, because these make up what God "is." It is this perfect self-awareness that is the source of God's love, because to do anything but love everything would require "him" to reject part of what "he" is. (I use quotation marks around "he", "him" etc. because I am using these pronouns for convenience. God cannot really be conceived of as having gender.)
2006-08-09 08:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by Sir N. Neti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is the creator. The Father who cares for you, the Son who died for you, and the Holy Spirit who lives inside you. Believe in Him. And follow the Word of God.
2006-08-09 07:13:18 · answer #7 · answered by deathkorp1590 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A marriage of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. The elements that female and male represent.
2006-08-09 07:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is simply this,
The Creator of everything on earth....
He is the Alpha and Omega
He is the one who loves us when no one else will
He is the one who sent is son to die for and you so we can live in Heaven instead of eternal damnation
He is the most complicated yet simple thing....
God is the one who loves you
2006-08-09 07:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by dancin4jesus316 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The unmoved mover. The cosmic clockmaker. God is beyond mortal understanding.
2006-08-09 07:10:19 · answer #10 · answered by Samuel C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋