Define God?

Question

And don't give me a load of bulls*** about no one being able to define God. If you worship him, you can define him, if you don't, that's grand.

Answer 1

God is an excuse for a lack of individual, logical thought. And even if god did exist, why would you want to worship something so vain and nasty?

Answer 2

God, God the Father, God of Abraham - Issac - Jacob, the Great I AM:
Eternal being, without beginning and without end for whom Time is one eternal now. He has a body of flesh and bone (which we look like) however his body is perfected and suffers no sickness nor pain nor death. All powerful, all knowing.

As Father to all He has a plan for our happiness (see Gospel of Jesus Christ.).

a god: 1. an object of worship; can be in any form (people, objects, thoughts)
2. the thing you are most devoted to; God, money, t.v., sex, etc.

Answer 3

It is impossible to give you my definition because in your question, you have your own definition, when you refer to God as 'him'.
God is that which enables everything, it include you and I, every ant, every germ every bacteria, everything which is, and which ever was everywhere.
Other than that I cannot define God, god might be 'chance', God might be 'nature'.
I don't worship God, but I love this world and my life.


In view of your comments with your question, I will be interested whether you give the best answer to someone who has said that God doesn't exist, because that in my opinion would not answer your question. I am an agnostic.

Answer 4

"To every discerning and illumined heart it is evident that God, the unknowable Essence, the divine Being, is immensely exalted beyond every human attribute, such as corporeal existence, ascent and descent, egress and regress. Far be it from His glory that human tongue should adequately recount His praise, or that human heart comprehend His fathomless mystery. He is and hath ever been veiled in the ancient eternity of His Essence, and will remain in His Reality everlastingly hidden from the sight of men. "No vision taketh in Him, but He taketh in all vision; He is the Subtile, the All-Perceiving." No tie of direct intercourse can possibly bind Him to His creatures. He standeth exalted beyond and above all separation and union, all proximity and remoteness. No sign can indicate His presence or His absence; inasmuch as by a word of His command all that are in heaven and on earth have come to exist, and by His wish, which is the Primal Will itself, all have stepped out of utter nothingness into the realm of being, the world of the visible."
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 97)

Answer 5

Your question poses a false assumption: ie that you can define 0ne whom you worship.
(On a lower level I worship my wife but cannot define that!)

By very definition God is beyond definition. Any being within the grasp of the finite human mind would be less than that mind and could, therefore, not be God.

The nearest I can come is to say that God is love. God is like Jesus

Answer 6

# the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
# deity: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
# a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"
# idol: a material effigy that is worshipped; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"

Answer 7

John 4:24 - "God is a spirit"
1 Timothy 1:11 - "The happy God"
1 John 4:16 - "God is love"
Isaiah 40:26 - "Abundant in dynamic energy, vigorous in power."

It's all fairly straight-forward.

Answer 8

The ultimate Designer

Answer 9

A crutch.

More specifically, I think God is a human's manifestation of a higher power through which thoughts of despair, helplessness, fear, and other negative feelings can be transformed into hope, control and courage.

If a God truly does exist, I don't know that I could define it. God may be so profound and awesome that I might collapse and die merely in its sight.

Answer 10

The question "Who is God?" is a good question. It is better than asking "What is God?" This is because God exists, created us, loves us, is concerned for our being, desires to provide for us, and sent the Son to redeem us. If we were to ask "What is God?" we might be tempted to say that God is the infinite being, the creator, a presence, or something like that. In some respect, this would be true. But the first question brings us closer to understanding more of who God really is in His character and His love for us as revealed in the Bible.
The Bible teaches us that in all existence, from all eternity, there has been and always will be only one God. God was never created, is completely loving, completely just, completely holy, completely merciful, and that He desires the best for us. God is holy and He can have nothing to do with sin as the Bible says, "His eyes are too pure to look upon evil," (Hab. 1:13). This does not mean that God cannot see what someone does that is wrong. It is a way of describing how holy God is. God cannot sin. He is perfect.
In Christianity, God is a Trinity. This means that God is three persons, not three gods. Technically, the doctrine of the Trinity states that in the one God is the person of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each is not the same person as the other; yet there are not three gods but one. This is similar in analogy to the nature of time. Time is past, present, and future. The past is not the same as the present, which is not the same as the future. But, there are not three times. There is only one thing called time.
The reason the word "person" is used in describing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is because each exhibits attributes of personhood -- not in a body of flesh and bones, but in personality. In other words, each has a will, loves, speaks, is aware of others, communicates with others, etc. These are attributes of personhood and we see the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit each demonstrate these qualities.
Because of the Trinity, God can become flesh in the form of the Son, and still exist in such a way so that He can run the universe. Therefore, the Son can communicate to us on our level.
Following are a couple verses that hint at the Trinity.

Matt. 28:19, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."
2 Cor. 13:14, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all."
The Bible says there is only one God: "I am the Lord, and there is no other;
Besides Me there is no God," (Isaiah 45:5). Yet, the Bible teaches that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each called God.
Below is a very brief chart that shows that each of the persons in the Trinity share the same attributes that only God shares. But remember, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit each have wills, and speak, etc. Therefore, we say there are are three persons.

http://www.carm.org/seek/God.htm