2006-11-12 18:25:47 · 30 answers · asked by SARLA J 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-11-12 18:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by ZenPenguin 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God can variously be defined as:
the proper name of the one Supreme and Infinite Personal Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, to whom man owes obedience and worship; the common or generic name of the several supposed beings to whom, in polytheistic religions, Divine attributes are ascribed and Divine worship rendered;
the name sometimes applied to an idol as the image or dwelling-place of a god.
God is the deity believed by monotheists to be the supreme reality. He is believed variously to be the creator, or at least the sustainer, of the universe. Theologians and philosophers have ascribed a number of attributes to God, including omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. He has been described as incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the greatest conceivable existent. These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars, including St Augustine, Al-Ghazali, and Maimonides. Freud regarded this view of God as wish fulfillment for the perfect father figure, while Marxist writers see it as rooted in the powerlessness experienced by men and women in oppressive societies.
All the great medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, attempting to wrestle with the contradictions God's attributes seem to imply. For example, God's omniscience implies that he knows how free agents will choose to act. If he does know this, their apparent free will is illusory; and if he does not know it, he is not omniscient. Similar difficulties follow from the proposition that God is the source of all moral obligation. If nothing would be right or wrong without God's commands, then his commands appear arbitrary. If his commands are based on fundamental principles that even he cannot change, then he is not omnipotent.
The last few hundred years of philosophy have seen sustained attacks on the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence. Against these, theists (or fideists) argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk. There would be no risk, they say, if the arguments for God's existence were as solid as the laws of logic, a position famously summed up by Pascal as: "The heart has reasons which reason knows not of."
2006-11-14 04:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Rahul 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOt what,but Who. He is your Creator who loved you somuch that he gave HIs only begotten son Jesus Christ to die as a ransom in your place. Jesus therefor reconciled you to God [if you believe in Him and have accepted him into your life as your Lord and Saviour.
God is omnipotent, almighty, all- glorious and the sole Creator. He is the only God, all others are fake. He is Spirit and resides in heaven. He is the sovereign and supreme Rule and Owner of everything.
If you need any further information, read the Bile and start with Genesis and end with Revelation. then you will know who God is.
2006-11-13 02:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by godshandmaiden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a Spirit, God is Love. He is the all sufficient one.
I Cr 13;8a11-12-6
2006-11-13 02:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a good question...
The supreme God of all creation. He is known as "God" or "Father" to the Christians, and as "El" or "Yahweh" to the Jews. This assumes the Qur'an is true in saying that "our God is the same as your God". Christians and Jews might not always be inclined to agree with this. See the article "Is Allah the God of the Bible?
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who is adored in worship, who creates all that exists, who has priority over all creation, who is lofty and hidden, who confounds all human understanding. It is exactly the same word as, in Hebrew, the Jews use for God (Eloh), the word which Jesus Christ used in Aramaic when he prayed to God. ...
2006-11-13 02:46:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a word. Yes! God is a word.
If you're Christian/Moslem/Jew, then you oughta know that according to the scriptures "In the begining was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God".
So, now what do you think God is? Isn't "He" just a word?!?!?!
2006-11-14 07:18:30 · answer #6 · answered by The Maulvi Who Sold His Maruti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is All That Is; God is Cause, creating only what is real, and nothing unreal; God is energy, mind, spirit; God informs Itself in and as all appearance, yet God does not create in physical terms...the physical is our own projection, (not creation) using the perfect mind of God, as creations of God.
God is love...without opposite...peace...without opposite...joy...without opposite.
2006-11-13 09:29:32 · answer #7 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT IS GOD ?
G=The Generator(Lord Brahma)
O=The Observer ( Lord Vishnu )
D=The Destroyer( Lord Shiva)
(Brahma Vishnu Maheswara)
Brahma the Creator
Vishnu the observer of life from cradle to
grave yard
Maheswara the controller of deaths
2006-11-13 06:06:57 · answer #8 · answered by panugamti r r 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is the Supreme soul ,whereas we all are diff rent souls.We remember that supreme soul by so many diff rent and wonderful names ie, Shiva, Allah, Jehovah etc.HE is the creator director of this Human- world -drama.Like all other souls,HE is also Point of divine light but unlike other souls HE is beyond the cycle of birth and death,and HE is the source of all the Divine qualities (Peace, Prosperity ,Purity,Bliss,Knowledge,Love,Power etc.)
By meditating on HIM, we can get these qualities.
2006-11-13 07:46:54 · answer #9 · answered by agni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An empty, meaningless, incoherent word.
One might as well ask "what is an unie?"
As George Smith wrote:
Aquinas applied such terms as “knowledge”,” “life,” “will,” “love,” “justice and mercy,” and “power” to the concept of God, and these qualities are clearly positive in nature. But we still have serious problems. Most of the positive qualities commonly attributed to God are of secondary importance because they refer to God’s personality rather than His metaphysical nature as an existing being.
Wisdom, love, knowledge, power—these may be fine qualities, but just what are they qualities of? What is the nature of the being possessing them? Affirmative theology, if it is to rescue God from the oblivion of the unknowable, must accomplish more than list secondary characteristics.
2006-11-13 02:32:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A power that surrounds everything, a spirit.
But it could also be a creation of the human imagination designed in this way so as for him to have somewhere to turn when in trouble.
Who knows!
2006-11-13 02:30:23 · answer #11 · answered by parapligiko A.E. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋