How would you define god?
Please don't say "Salvation!" or "Love!" Neither is an adequete explanation, and is just a lame cop out.
What I mean is, what exactly is this supposed omnipotent creature? Where did it come from? What is it doing here? Does it have limitations? From where does its power come? et cetera.
Any thoughts?
2007-02-03 10:22:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Your god is an it.My God is a person."
My god is nonexistent. I'm an atheist. But I'm curious as to what you think your god is.
2007-02-03 10:29:14 · update #1
God....Hmmm well the best thing to say about it is that it's a 3-letter word. To the Christian it's a proper noun, the name of their deity. Yet to others it seems god is an adjective that tells something about a so-called supreme being. The word god was derived from an old-English word that says something worthy of worship. That means god is a word that needs unfettered devotion. That's why we have the quote, "Your money is your god."
Some belief system use the word god as a metaphor. So that means not all god-concept is a being with unlimited powers. For example, pantheism says that god and nature is the same. Personal gods in the other hand are the one who have all those omni-attributes that makes it an uber-being. Most personal god is created anthropomorphic compare to those non-sentient metaphorical gods. Other believe that god also evolved (Process Theology), while others don't know what a god is or will humans ever decipher what is a god (agnostics).
Does god have a limitation? Yet it has, in fact god can be killed.
In order to kill a god, it must lose all its believers, thus making this god-concept a product of mythology. That's what happened to olden gods in our history like the Greek and the Mayan gods and goddesses.
2007-02-03 11:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by John the Pinoy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term God is used to designate a Supreme Being; however, there are other definitions of God. For example: *Many religious and philosophic systems consider a God to be the creator of the universe. *Some traditions hold that the creator of the universe is also the sustainer of the universe (as in theism), while others argue that their God is no longer involved in the world after creation (as in deism).*The common definition of a God assumes omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence. ...
OR
The Plastic Ono Band is the band John Lennon formed after he left the Beatles.
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2007-02-03 18:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Know It All 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is the subjectivity of the quantum vacuum.
Every manifest reality emerges from complex torsion-wave interference patterns in the quantum vacuum, the "zero point field." Every wave interference pattern has two faces, an outward one (objectivity) which interacts with the world, superposing itself on other wave patterns, and an inward one (subjectivity) which is its "experience." In the simplest waves, this subjectivity is vanishingly small, but as they grow more and more complex, subjectivity blooms into sentience and self-reflective awareness. Ultimately the entire universe is one unfathomably complex wave-pattern, the self-consciousness of which is God.
2007-02-03 18:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is our heavenly Father, He always was and always will be. He created heaven and earth. He created Adam and Eve, they were the first humans. There were also other humans that God created, because God wanted many different races in the world. Look around you and see all the beauty of the world, it is sad that some people set out to destroy Gods creations!
2007-02-03 18:31:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gerry 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is the owner and the creator of this universe including us!
2007-02-03 18:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
god is a three letter word used to describe an imaginary existence that makes an easy answer for everything that ever happens - ever
2007-02-03 18:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created the heavens and the earth.
God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him, must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
2007-02-03 18:29:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It? you mean whom?Your god is an it.My God is a person.
2007-02-03 18:26:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thats one open question, No one can truley answer that
2007-02-03 18:33:16 · answer #9 · answered by A nobody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me, I am god. And I command you (and anyone else who reads this) to obey me and shower me with expensive presents.
2007-02-03 18:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋