who is God?

Question

Tell me of the image you have of God. Everyone has an image of who he/she conceives God to be and this affects the way we relate to HIm.

Answer 1

The creator of heaven and earth and all that is within.

He loves all of his children - that means you.

Be happy and God Bless ya.

Answer 2

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has innumerable forms because He has the potency to appear in any form He likes. He most often accepts a form which His devotees desire to see and worship. Down through history there have been a multitude of incarnations of the Lord and each of them are fully transcendental to the modes of material nature, ie., not bound by the laws of physics. To give an example, just prior to the present age, a little more than 5000 years ago, the Lord appeared on this planet in His original form of Krishna. Krishna's form is composed of complete bliss and knowledge. Every limb of His body can perform the function of any other part of His body and just by His will anything He wishes to accomplish automatically happens, since He is the controller of all energies. Rather than try and give a detailed description of Krishna for you, which wouldn't do Him justice, I will provide a link where you can read a description written by a God-realized person. The relevant pages are 28 - 31. http://www.krishna.com/e-books/Sri_Brahma_Samhita.pdf

Also, here is a link to a painting that very nicely depicts Lord Krishna, the form of the Lord I think of when I think of God.
http://www.krishna.com/repository/global/user/xml/0/2005/02/home.index.kc/gopal.jpg

Its easy for someone in ignorance to say that there is no God or that no one has seen God. If honesty is important, then to be honest they can say "I have not seen God". To know if no one has seen God would not be possible, so such statements are simply idiocy.

Answer 3

When I was young, all the pictures I was shown involved long, flowing, white robes, long, white hair and wise looking eyes. Like Santa Claus but not as jolly, and a good bit healthier.

These days I try not to associate God with a corporeal personification; more as a mysterious source of guidance and support who can communicate silently via signs and motivational urges.

You could say I'm talking about my own sense of right and wrong or denying my sense of responsibility but I always try to take responsibility for my actions and my conscience was created by God so that's his way of communicating with me. That and the guidance I get from my family and the clergy... for the best part.

Answer 4

All is relative - so, for me, it is something like imagination or dreaming. There are as many images of God as thinking minds. (If people cannot think for themselves, they are offered to buy a model, in the form of an existing religion).
The word "God" should not be monopolized by religions, but be utilised as a concept for something beyond our imagination.
Observing nature, we discover every day how wonderful this universe is, and how little we know of it. Something in nature is giving a direction to evolution - we are part of a gigantic vortex that moves up, concentrating, building more and more levels of energy, knowhow, making the base stronger, the top higher - development. Maybe God is that what we select as beyond our ambition, so incredibly beautifull that it is beyond our imagination, but that it is the mother of all our imaginations and deeds, making us and society develop.

Answer 5

I think our images/ideas of god are the product of a species that has not completely evolved yet. A bit like a cave man trying to perceive a nuclear reactor. God is beyond our understanding at our present level of evolution.

Answer 6

God is an emanation of the mind, and his name is an inheritance from ancient believers in someone who created this world we perceive with our senses.
I personnally think that what people call God is the reflection of our personal power with different levels depending on the individuals. The more independent your mind, the weaker the notion of God.
Our mind generates the notion of God to explain the unknown. The missing bit in our brain is the remebrance of where we came from, and that's why we endeavour to bring someone supposedly stronger than us to explain the unknown.

Answer 7

surely the question should, to a rational mind, be WHAT is god rather than who is god...

based on what reasons or logic does anyone even accept assertions such as "there is only one god" (why..do you want there to be more than one?), or "man was created in god's own image" (oh yeah what we need is more apes, 6 billion isn't enough) or "god is love" (quit ripping quotes from the bible)

or even something like "there is god". i seriously doubt that anyone can honestly say that they have seen or experienced "god". HONESTLY is the keyword.

and the people who cling on to the argument that it is the belief that counts never stop to think that that isn't really an ANSWER to whether there exists "god". it's only a justification or recommendation to randomly accept an unseen, insubstantiated theory that goes around...but interestingly enough, never comes around.

if god knew you believed in him, he'd laugh

Answer 8

God controls everything beyond my control. This is from my perspective. God changes (becomes less) as I get older and gain more independence from my parental control. When I start to remove myself from societies control, God becomes even less. When I live on a boat in the sea, outside of any Government's control God becomes even less. When I am on an island, in the middle of an ocean which belongs to no-one, I am dependent totally on the weather, the food the sea and the land provides, and the rain from the sky to produce my living. God therefore controls what food is on the island initially. As I learn to cultivate the land on the island, and breed the animals on the island for food, God becomes less.

When on this island, I ask God for help what is it that I would need God's help for?

I have plentiful food, sunshine, fresh water, and entertainment. If God is a man as you suggest, and I am a man living on this island, what is his purpose?

Let us suppose that I do not get lonely as I am used to being alone. Let us suppose that I know how to cook, and I know how to tie my own shoelaces. Do I need to open a hospital on the island? Do I need a fire brigade? Do I need a policeman? Do I need an ambulance? Do I need a local council to tax me? Does money have any concept whatsoever?

What is it that I would need a God for?

When God leaves you on that island for life, and lets you die there alone. Who is god?

I think in such circumstances God does not exist.

Answer 9

The Universal mind

Buddha said "It both is and is not; neither is,nor is not."

The Upanishads says "Not female, not yet male is it, neither is it neuter. Whatever body it assumes, though that body it is served."

Over and over again wefind confirmation of the fact that man can apprehend jis own being only insofar as he can make it visible in the image of his gods.

Every culture must create its own God idea rather than rely upon outworn tradition.

Answer 10

The greatest drug dealer of all time....why? Because he's the opiate to the masses.....he cushions us from the grim reality of our utter death and annihilation. He provideds the rose-colored glasses that gives us emotional support during the hard times.

But alas, the man behind the curtain is a sham, we must succumb to objective and grim reality.

Answer 11

God have no image in my point of view.He may be in a form of light or in a form of wind.