what is god?

Question

most everyone knows about the christian view of god. i would like to learn about other religious or non-religious views about what exactly "god" is.

if all your going to say is "God is my savior" shut the hell up and go evagalize somewhere else.

only serious answers please.

Answer 1

GREAT Q,,,

SO glad you used WHAT as opposed to WHO.

I'm an irreverent Reverend, and my beliefs are very personal,,,as I'm sure everyone elses are, but I offer this,,,even to those detractors of my statement.

GOD, however you name the essence or define the meanings for you personally, is just that.

A comfort zone, a THING to believe in when little else is believable, a place to place BLAME when no other rationale exists.

I suggest also, with no real offense meant, that the topic cannot be truly debated to any logical, satisfactory conclusion,,,AND acceptance, tolerance of others, is the correct way. What one percieves in that word, or it's defining properties cannot be denied as false by any other, of a different view point,,,IE: GOD, Mohammed, Buddah,,, Are one in the same, depending on ones culture, structure in learned attitudes, and as long as IT"S OK with each of us, it should be OK with all of us.

So sayeth Steven Wolf

Answer 2

God is a concept, and a rather abstract one at that. Even Christians have a hard time defining "God", and as you pointed out, will normally resort to cliched' definitions and statements. Whether a religion believes in one god or many gods, the idea is that gods are beings with power beyond human comprehension or in some cases god is an omnipresent consciousness. Besides being an easy explanation for things the people in a particular civilization or religion cannot understand, God is also hard to define scientifically. By definition, God is uncomprehendable by the human mind, so it is IMPOSSIBLE to truly prove the existence or nonexistence of any "God". Arguing over God is ultimately futile, for each and every human attaches a different personal value to the concept.

Answer 3

It seems to me, based on observation that there are two Gods. The first is of human construction. Humans need to feel in control. So we have created a belief system that comforts us and allows us to feel as though we have some control over the uncontrolable and some explaination for that which we don't understand. Random good stuff happens and when it does we call is a blessing from above. Random bad stuff happens and when it does we call it evil or a trial.

The second is perhaps a universal construction. It is difficult for me to believe that the beauty and majesty of the universe is an accident. Although the creator of that has little to do with our daily lives.

It seems to me that our lives are about 15% to 20% ran good stuff and 15% to 20% random bad stuff. We can have an impact by our actions on the remaining 50% to 60%.

Answer 4

Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Zeus, Osiris, Baal, Buddha, Ganesh, the light bringer, Olelbis, etc all names man has called god over the years and through different cultures.

Religions come and go but seeing how most people are ego centric we have to believe that this is the one and true God and all the others are rubbish. I am sure in a thousands years we will look back on our quaint and silly religious beliefs in the same light that we look at the Greek or Norse Gods.

Answer 5

God is a definition. Usually, in the most broad sense, it refers to a higher power. However, in a more specified sense this higher power can be tailored to a number of things. A higher power can be the laws of thermodynamics, which brought upon the current stage of the Universe since the big bang. While God, as a seperate concious entity, somewhere in the Universe that leads souls to a "afterlife" is another definition.

My definition of God is: There are many definitions of God, most broadly, that of a higher power.

I beleive in many gods, such as lightning, and such..I beleive there may be something along the lines of the definition of the christian God, which involves a seperate entity in the Universe...such as an alien life-form that bends space and time...and that Earth may just be an intergalactic TV show...but I think an afterlife is unlikely.

Answer 6

God is the one who created you, the one who created me, and everything else here in the whole wide universe. God is infinite, God is the alpha and the omega.

If you want a description of God, then imagine this, we are like ants compared in magnitude to the universe, thats how big God is.

And to all those who say there is no God, i ask you then, who created and started everything? even the BIG BANG should have been started by someone if you think about it. God's wisdom is infinite, thats why we will never be able to comprehend everything,

Answer 7

The word god is the description of something that our limited mind cannot grasp. Our mind is small but it cannot go beyond its periphery.So we are just contented to believe and (If our belief is very strong it becomes faith) follow what other people say. This movement of believing is born of fear(what will happen if I die) or the idea that everybody is believing why can't I. So for me the word god is the creation of a limited and a very afraid mind. I think to understand the truth about the mystery of life is to uncover the limitation of our gullible mind.

Answer 8

I think God is man's attempt at a physical manifestation of universal truth. All the laws that govern matter lead to one coherent order of things that in turn guide our moral conceptions. If we sufficiently remove ourselves from our own individualized culture and examine the human race as a species, we can find an underlying truth that transcends geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries. I believe God is our description of this truth. It is an improper or insufficiently broad understanding of those things that are common to all of us that leads to culture clash and an overly specific and personalized conception of God.

Answer 9

if you want to know who God is, you have a lot to do, its more than any other form of project you could ever lay your hands on if you have not yet discovered him, go and read letter to a young poet, letter 7, go and read the Holy Quran with a open mind and only pray that you discover it, cos those words are phylosophical only for those with brain, those words are poetry, only those with perceptions understand,
so if i were you i will think of all those nemerous stuffs science hasn't find a solution to, where the sun come from daily and returns to ask about your childhood and birth, if you are really courious with an open mind you will find out, He exist in all you do its only that you are not yet artistic enough to discover that,
anyway God is Supreme acording to religion and scriptures but do you know he lives in you.....
find out

Answer 10

Saw this on WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? :

"Describe God? You may as well ask a fish to describe the water in which it swims."

I think God is a smile on the face of a baby,
Maybe God is the power to create God in our own image.
God is the ability to walk in beauty.