What is God?

Question

I have read the previous answers to this question and am curious for new feedback. Here are some other questions that go with it. Does infinity exist? Did good and evil exist before man made them? Does God need to have a personality?

Does infinity exist? Does god need a personality? Did good and evil exist before man? is it possible god and existence are the same thing?

Answer 1

That depends upon who YOU are. Some people use God as an excuse for bigotry, hatred & murder. Some see God in everyone & everything. Some people use God like a wheelbarrow, to assist them in dumping all of their problems on others. There are as many variations of God as there are blades of grass on the face of the Earth.

I'm one of those that sees God in everyone & everything. :-D

Infinity does exist... it exists in the mind of God, which is unfathomable to all human thought and language.

God, by nature, *is* GOOD. It took Man to create EVIL.

God lives through each & every one of us. When seen in that respect, God is ALL personalities... and infinitely impersonal.

Answer 2

The idea of a supernatural sentient entity, and the 'religious' experience in general, has a scientific basis. Nueorscientists have pinpointed that part of the brain that triggers our raw emotion, our deepest feelings and, yes, our 'religious' beliefs. It's the primitive limbic system, one of the last remnants of our distant reptilian past. Consider the following:

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.

Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

With that premise, there can be no further discussion about god's personality. Regarding the good and evil question, you answered your own question. Man came up with the concept of good and evil, the animals didn't.

Regarding infinity, since we're talking the distant past as well as the distant future, therefore we can make certain statements. We only know what we can observe. Infinity, by definition, is something that we haven't observed. Our observations go back only a tiny fraction after the big bang and forward a finite distant. We don't know if there'll be a Big Crunch, will black holes dominate, will it continue on for ever. The mere talk of big bangs, galactic distances and the size of the observable universe, renders human history meaningless.

Answer 3

God is a fairy tale almighty being humans have created to help them cope with death and the hardships of life.

It gives them hope and an outlet for the things they can not cope with....

Does infinity exist? Sure it does, as long as there are possibilities there will be infinity....what does not exist is 0 [zero] or nothing


Did good and evil exist before man made them? Good and Evil are nothing more than names man gave what is polar opposites, so yes it did before man called it good or evil


Does God need to have a personality? Sure, since man created God it has whatever personality man decides it should have, hence the many faces of God in the many religions on earth....God has the personality of his woreshipers

Answer 4

In nature there is no force that could aptly be labeled either good or evil. These words represent concepts formed in the minds of humans in an attempt to to understand and predict events and consequences based on the presumed intent behind either calamitous or fortuitous events and observed phenomena. "Intent" is the key, and to infer that, one has to infer or postulate the identity of the "intender."
Various groups of people over the ages have devised versions of what this intender could or should be like, most of which have some sort of human characteristics, and some of which resemble both humans and animals in their makeup. These versions of the "intender" are what we now refer to as Gods.
They necessarily have a personality as the motives that are ascribed to these Gods for the actions they appear to have intentionally performed can only be understood or predicted by assigning character and personality traits to these various Gods - traits that conform to their observed behaviors and to the presumed purposes for their existence in the universe.

As to the existence of infinity, if you are referring to an imagined lack of either a beginning or end to the existence of our perceived universe, we have difficulty conceiving that there could have been nothing before there was something. The concept of a purposeful being fits into this conundrum well as a form of explanation for how nothing might have been transformed into something, while at the same time assuring us that we were not meant to know more than that Godlike entity has found ways to tell us about the nature of our beginnings.
But could infinity exist without there being a God involved in allowing us to exist and contemplate its meaning? There is no certainty that we as humans can ever answer that question more fully than to postulate that there has never been "nothing" because there has always been "something," and that where time is concerned, the past and present are again human concepts for the measurement and prediction of change, and where in fact the time is always now.

Answer 5

God is a construct of man. Man has a need to explain things that are not understood and out of his control. Man's need for this explanation of events arose prior to the scientific method.

Why did the lion eat my child? God's will.
Why did the rains wash our village away? God's will.
Why did the locusts eat our crops? God's will.
And so on.

It's a reasonable response to events out of our control, but the failure to allow religion to adapt to new tangible understandings of nature and human behavior have created a stagnant religion paradigm.

To the best of our current understanding, infinity does exist because we can't imagine the edges of our universe. The real question is whether or not the universe is round like the earth is round; it's vastness relative to our technology has prevented us from exploration that could result in a circumnavigation of the universe. Just a thought.

Good and evil did not exist until defined as such by man.

God is a construct of man, as i said before, therefore, He needs to have a personality to remain in our mental grasp.

Answer 6

God is a theory, that is the one common thread among the many religions across the earth.
Infinity does exist, look at Pi.
Good and evil did not exist before man because man is a philsophical species, and does not rely on natural selection like other species.
God doesn't need to have a personality, but I suppose if he/her does exist, then they have a sense of humor.

Watch "Dogma" from Kevin Smith. It will make you wonder.

Answer 7

God is a hypothesis that needs critical research.

Infinity does exist as long as conscious beings entirely wiped out in this planet or in any many other possible planets.

Good and evil exist only in human brain and DNA.

God does not need to have a personality; It is omnipotent but blind.

Answer 8

I believe that God is the formless, genderless, omnipresent, eternal energy source which is the process of life itself. Not a being, or an old guy with a long white beard and flowing robes sitting in a throne in some heaven in outer space somewhere. We are each an individuation of God, created of the same matter as God. Together we are the sum (son) total of God.

Answer 9

God is the title of a personality who exists in a form of life higher than humans,
who is limitless in power.
His Name is Jehovah.

Infinity exists. You just can't measure it.
just like you can't measure 0.
you can understand 0, but you can't measure it.
like too, you can't touch water without being though the surface.

good existed always with God, all he does is good, and proper.
The idea of evil is always possible
but it got started in pratice with Satan,
so yes, it started before man got involved with it.

God does have a personality. as far as need?
who knows exactly
you may say that an inanimate object has a personality.
its hot, its cold, its soft, its hard,,,
whatever, it has charastics.
We humans, don't need to be able to taste and enjoy food,
but we do,
we don't need to see in color,
but we do.
God's personality is wonderful, is loving, is kind,is just.
IT is really ashame that people distort him in so many ways,
if you want to get to know him, read his word, Daily,
meditate on what you have read,
Don't be afraid to reject thinking that is contrary with what is written.
thats why he had it written, instead of passing it orally.
I encourage you to seek out Jehovah's witnesses in your area if you are wanting to know more about God.

Answer 10

If we can imagine that single cell in a body would think...That which it can observe is brothers and sisters around. It cannot see big picture of living body, right?Only gossips about it coming from brothers and sisters.. would you recognize our existence now? Infinity existing in and out..everything can represent an infinity in holographic view. Cosmos and single cell God and human, for God created humans as his image and likeness...right? God is impersonal...we are adopted meaning of personalities first unknowingly creating them, then performing them . ..out of spectrum of personalities we creating image of God as our likeness. That created monster behaving exactly as we are divided on thousands personalities and faces, good/ bad, love/ hate and so on. God does not create a duality...we crafted it.