No matter how you look at it if there is a God he must be made of something, what is he made of?

Question

He must also be no more than energy reactions.

Just as we are no more then chemical electrical reactions.

Answer 1

He used to be made of wood, but these days, just cheap plastic. He's a Chinese export, put together by cheap labor.

Answer 2

If you can invent a satisfying answer for your question then you have just invented a God. And any God you can invent is smaller than the human mind, and cannot be true. He isn't anything the human mind can invent.

You can know what God isn't rather than what God is.

He is not finite in time or space. He is infinite.

He is not made of matter or substance or energy or anything you can comprehend.

Those of you who come in and put ticks against the thumbs down obviously hate answers given by anyone who believes in God. I want to ask you what kind of God is it that you hate in order to do this?

The kind of God you have invented to hate isn't the kind of God that the believers believe in.

If I tell you God loves you and wants to know you and bless you for the only reason that he made you and that he made you to be loved by him. Would you believe this?

If you say then, "Bullshit!" and "Ahh, I'm sick of these people who believe in God when he doesn't exist!" then you have to prove to us He doesn't exist. Then you have no answer to the existence of the Universe and the order in nature and the fact there is an explanation for everything that exists. The most inexplicable fact in the Universe is that things are explicable.

I'm writing this as a Physics teacher of 12th Grade whose students go to MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cornell and all the top Universities. And many of them are deeply religious.

If God is the maker of energy and matter, and the one who set off the Big Bang, then he is NOT made up of things he create.

I feel that we exist like Hamlet in Elsinore, with free will other than what Shakespeare created him to say. If Hamlet could ask one day, "Where is Shakespeare? I don't believe in him. I try to find him in all of Elsinore and couldn't find him." What would you tell him?

Answer 3

A minor modest explanation of what God is (from: http://www.hanefesh.com/edu/What_is_God.htm)

- God is the Creator of everything
God is Holy and Perfect. Everything in the universe was created by God, and only by God. Judaism completely rejects the dualistic notion that evil was created by Satan or some other deity. All comes from God. As Isaiah said, "I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil. I am the LORD, that does all these things" (Isaiah 45,6-7).


- God is Incorporeal
Although many places in scripture and Talmud speak of various parts of God's body (the Hand of God, God's wings, etc.) or speak of God in anthropomorphic terms (God walking in the garden of Eden, God laying phylactery, etc.), Judaism firmly maintains that God has no body. Any reference to God's body is simply a figure of speech, a means of making God's actions more comprehensible to beings living in a material world. Much of Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed is devoted to explaining each of these anthropomorphic references and proving that they should be understood figuratively.

In Judaism it's forbidden to represent to God in a physical form. That is considered idolatry. The sin of the Golden Calf incident was not that the people chose another deity, but that they tried to represent God in a physical form.


- God is Neither Male nor Female
This followed directly from the idea that God has no physical form. God has, of course, no body; therefore, the very idea that God is male or female is patently absurd. We refer to God using masculine terms simply for convenience's sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; God is no more male than a table is.
Although we usually speak of God in masculine terms, there are times when we refer to God using feminine terms. The Shechinah, the manifestation of God's presence that fills the universe, is conceived of in feminine terms, and the word Shechinah is a feminine word.


- God is Omnipresent
God is in all places at all times. He fills the universe and exceeds its scope. He is always near for us to call upon in need, and He sees all that we do. Closely tied in with this idea is the idea that God is universal. He is not just the God of the Jews; He is the God of all nations.

God can do anything. It is said that the only thing that is beyond His power is the fear of Him; that is, we have free will, and He cannot compel us to do His will.

God knows all things, past, present, and future. He knows our thoughts as well.


- God is Eternal
God transcends time. He has no beginning and no end. He will always be there to fulfill his promises. When Moses asked for God's name, He replied, "Ehyeh asher ehyeh". That phrase is generally translated as, "I am that I am", but the word "ehyeh" can be present or future tense, meaning "I am what I will be" or "I will be what I will be". The ambiguity of the phrase is often interpreted as a reference to God's eternal nature.

Time is in this universe - whatever created this universe has to exist outside of time (Einstein).


- God's Involvement
God is aware of everything that takes place, including every thought that is entertained by every human being. Nothing can exist without God bringing it continually into existence. The fact that anything exists, whether it's a rock in the street or ant #8162 in this particular ant hill, is a revelation of God's constant will and awareness. Nothing happens without God's will.


Hope this helps and God bless!

Additional: And someone stated this above, God was not made. He is eternal and transcends time and space.

Answer 4

In my mind's eye, I met Him once. He was a glowing sparkly pillar of light in a room filled with light, very gentle and peaceful and giving me everything I needed. He appeared to be pure energy, yet there was intelligence so vast that it was overwhelming. There was peace. very peaceful. Not like static-y electrical snapping angry energy, more like water, but not. Geesh, I'm not making myself very clear. He was visible emotion, and that emotion was peace. Darn. Clear as mud, eh?

Answer 5

Hes some one trys rule us the right way of living.He knows what life about,he die in pain..So if he can save us that pain he went throught he will.hes there when we asked for his help, God can only save so many from death. and its hard save the one,s don,t want be save.I don,t know what god made of, only you and i will know ,When its ower time to meet him, Be very happy he ask us to his lovely home ,Were there no pain or killing,Just love,and if we are good we can be Angels come back down to earth , help others as we were help.

Answer 6

Plasticine

Answer 7

Spirit.

"He must also be no more than energy reactions."
How do you know since no one can study spirit?

Answer 8

Attempting to comprehend God is not going to get you very far. Christians (if they are truly honest with themselves) will admit that they can't explain or comprehend Him.

That would be where faith comes in. It is the ability to believe something beyond your minds limitations.

Answer 9

Wish fulfilment.

And Higgs bosons, of course.

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Answer 10

God is a spirit. He is energy in its purest form. His substance is not of this dimension.