a person, place, or thing
2006-12-27 05:39:39 · 28 answers · asked by shadowinn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is a spirit. He is not a place or thing. God is a person, not in the physical sense but as an individual that has moral values. Man was created in the image and likeness of God.
2007-01-04 03:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by seapc_laos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cool question, not so easy to answer.
God should not be conceived of as a person, place OR thing exactly, because all of these are too small-scale, and carry implications like God is "out there" somewhere, like something physical. I guess if I was forced to choose, I'd say "thing," because that's the least clearly defined term. Like the Tao te Ching says, "The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Eternal Tao." No word can encompass the reality.
That being said, let me try it...
God is the totality of everything: Time, Space, Light, What Is, What Is Not. Everything that exists is a manifestation of Him (I use this pronoun for convenience, not because God has gender). If you think about time and space as a whole, then from outside this whole everything that ever has or will happen is one simultaneous moment. God is that moment, and everything in it. He is completely and perfectly self-aware and He contains all that is. All of our experiences are part of His "Universal Mind" which completely grasps and comprehends the totality of it all because it IS the totality of it all. God is all minds. The unfolding of our individual lives are the God experiencing himself.
Human beings have the unique power to think about God as an abstract entity (and about themselves as abstract entities), which makes us a unique tool whereby God experiences himself. This is what it means to say "man was created in God's image."
There are lots of frameworks for thinking about how God manifests as Creation. I think the easiest to grasp is something like this: Everything is one thing, vibrating at different speeds. The slower the speed, the more physical the thing.
The Norse concept of the 3 Norns and the world-tree, Yggdrassil also are a good image, but this is a little harder to convey.
2006-12-27 16:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sir N. Neti 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
a place
2006-12-27 13:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by Sean 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God is Love
2006-12-27 13:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by BubbleGumBoobs! 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We can only partially comprehend the notion of God's existence. To do so, we must use human concepts to speak of God: "without beginning or end"; "eternal"; "infinite", etc. The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was.
To us, the notion of time is linear. One second follows the next, one minute is after another. We get older, not younger and we cannot repeat the minutes that have passed us by. We have all seen the time lines on charts: early time is on the left and later time is on the right. We see nations, people's lives, and plans mapped out on straight lines from left to right. We see a beginning and an end. But God is "beyond the chart." He has no beginning or end. He simply has always been.
Also, physics has shown that time is a property that is the result of the existence of matter. Time exists when matter exists. Time has even been called the fourth dimension. But God is not matter. In fact, God created matter. He created the universe. So, time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity.
Eternity is a term that we finite creatures use to express the concept of something that has no end -- and/or no beginning. Since God has no beginning or end, He has no beginning. This is because He is outside of time.
2006-12-27 13:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Depends how you really look at it; the Holy Trinity; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? The Son meaning Jesus; well Jesus was a "person" wasnt he? I dont know about the Father because God is really, just God; the Creator/Almighty. But you might be able to classify the Holy Spirit as a "thing".
2006-12-27 13:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by I Hate Liberals 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You are God and I am God. Only the weak bow down to this omnipotent white haired Myth. Allowing the Spirit which is You to become Decayed and useless, Chained as a slave to the "Holy Book". We are all Gods. Self-Supremecy is the key to godhood.
2006-12-27 13:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by Ironman396 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He is spirit. Think of the wind, in fact the Hebrew for Holy Spirit is translated as Holy Breath. He holds three offices in that of Father, Son and Holy spirit and each office has their task to perform, and all of it has to do with the betterment of our life here on earth. Study the scriptures and you will learn all that you need to know.
2007-01-01 16:33:53 · answer #8 · answered by Peace W 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is a person.
2006-12-27 13:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by Preacher 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God is the end result of a failed search for truth by a very shallow mind.
2006-12-27 13:49:39 · answer #10 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋