If you belive in God as a concrete entity (like in Christianity or Islamism)?

Question

What or who do you think made God in the first place?
If you think this question is not properly formulated, please explain, but don't simply criticize me for asking. Thank you

Answer 1

Come on Yaar please do not restrict God to be Concrete or Non Concrete, Omnipotence probably also mean to have the potence to be Concrete and Non Concrete... right ... ? "Ekam Sath, Viprath Bahuda Vadanthi" ... Probably, The Truth is only One and different people and scholars interpret THAT differently ... going further ...

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Answer 2

Good question though often repeated in different forms - and interesting answers. In Judaic religions (which include Christianity and Islam) I believe God is presented as a spirit more than a physical entity, although in all the so-called Holy Books you'll find it presented in so many different characters (jealous, angry, loving etc) and forms, it's confusing at best and otherwise a ridiculous. The concept requires that the adopted "god" pre-existed everything. I've never felt the need, or inclination for any such belief in the supernatural, and find it incomprehensible why anyone else would. For me the reality I see (however faultily) is numinous enough, and enough to deal with. Some obviously intelligent scientists believe in God. But, as I learned through Mensa, there are many different forms of what we might label "intelligence" - so no cogregation convinces me, personally. Ultimately we are all open to conviction (right or wrong - like the world is not flat as it appears to be) through reason or evidence WE find conclusive. And we are all potentially open to rationalise what we want to believe. For some, mere belief is convincing; and convenient belief can always be "rationalised" as untestable on normal grounds. Sad, but that's people for yer! Look at George Bush.

Answer 3

God is certainly not an entity for the simple reason that no entity (as we define) can have all those attributes which we associate with God, such as omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.

Therefore, so far as we are concerned, God is just a concept that we can imagine, but not realize or understand really. The concept is born from our imagination. Since we do not understand timelessness, we keep looking for a first cause in the cause and effect chain and when unable to ascertain such first cause, we took to imagination sans logic and created the concept of God.

The God we believe in can not have a concrete existence. We do not know the real God - our God is just our concept which is no concrete entity. The real God may have created us, we can not know for sure, but what we know for sure is that our God is created by us through our belief and imagination.

Answer 4

I think the question is improperly formulated for a couple reasons:

Neither in Christianity nor Islam is God considered "concrete." Both religions regard God as being infinite and limitless--he is greater than all of creation and cannot be contained within it. The reason why they believe God is the creator is because they view him as the original cause--the ultimate source of everything. Nothing could have created God because God is what all nature originated from. Look at it this way: if God was made or created somewhere along the line, then that isn't God (God would be whatever that came from).

Secondly, you refer to Islam as "Islamism," which is incorrect. =)

Answer 5

Nothing is required to make anything "in the first place." We tend to think this way because our limited minds have difficulty comprehending any type of causality other than linear, with increasing entropy.

Another way to look at this issue is this: nothing that exists or does not exist is required to make sense to human beings. We're not that important. If something like a god or a universe can exist without being created, and we can't understand how that can happen, that's just our tough luck.

That's an excellent question. I'll be interested in seeing some of the other answers, too.

Keep asking such questions. We could use more of them around here.

Answer 6

Although I doubt "God" as a concrete entity myself, I could follow that logic and answer it this way:

There is every evidence that all the accounts of concrete "God" were made by human after they are able to communicate invented ideas. It follows that our notion of "God" was created by human beings, as cultural phenomenon(s).

As for the descriptions in the books and the real existence of "God", none of them are proven yet. Only through very weak inductive reasoning could we propose that some higher conscious may exist somewhere in the universe -- or as the whole universe.

Answer 7

If you believe in God as expressed in the Old testament, than God is everpresent and all powerful. There was no "Before" God. Ostensibly, one the things God created was time. Before the universe was set in motion, there was no time. Remember, space and time are not separate entities. Before God created the universe there could be no time. Can God create a rock too big for God to move, could God invent a time where there was no God? These kinds of paradoxes are similar to Zen Koans. If you think about them, you may find yourself closer to the mystery that is everything, but even if you find an answer, it won't be expressible in limited human languages.

Answer 8

I believe in god as a concrete entity.
Most churches have a concrete or plaster god that was made by a factory somewhere in China.

Answer 9

Here in our world everything has a beginning and an end.
We have only seven colors (and variations thereof.)
We cannot imagine a new color, a new scent.
But everything we see may not be everything there is.
Perhaps outside of this world time as we know it doesn't even exist.
Perhaps "time" is a game that People play.
Perhaps there are colors we have never seen.
Perhaps there are scents we've never know.
Perhaps God has always been God...

Answer 10

Like all creation concepts, the ultimate source will always remain unknown. The only thing you can do is ignore it. Me, I ignore the whole concept because I have discovered that God is unnecessary.He has no place in the natural universe and if one bears in mind, that we all live in a lifeboat, he has no place in human affairs.

Answer 11

It is beyond our (human) brains' ability to comprehend that God always existed and that he is not subject to the laws of physics. With luck our brains will evolve sufficiently to grasp this concept maybe if we are still around in a couple of millenia
Scientists already tell us that there is a place in the universe called Singularity , maybe God lives there.