God is what we make it?

Question

he exists and is what we make it?!

Answer 1

No God except in peoples imagination

Answer 2

Well, without having to believe in God, we still do know what is right and what is wrong, and we try to live our lives the best we can. I am open to the existence of God, but maybe not in one's life: after all, I make my own life and God doesn't intervene in it. And should I meet God after my death, then I can show him that I have led my life the best I could.

Answer 3

If god is, and we mean god as in the creator of the universe, how can WE make him anything? however if you mean how we understand god is another matter. Is it possible that god lets us know loud and clear what life is about, it's just us that complicates it? and i'm not really talking about religion. I mean the world around us. If god is all powerful, how can we put a limit on what that is? is it not possible that it means everything AND nothing? what you think?

Answer 4

Take the story of the blind men and the elephant. Three blind men are all presented with an elephant. The first feels the tail, and says, "An elephant is like a rope." The second feels the wind from the flapping ear, and says, "An elephant is like a fan." The third feels the leg and says, "An elephant is like a tree." None of them are wrong, but none of them are right either. Each of them perceive from their own experience what the elephant, or "God", is. Since no one will ever be able to present proven evidence of whether there is an unknown entity, we must all keep in mind that none of us are right or wrong, and that we have no right to damn the belief's of other people, whether or not they differ from our own. Personally, I choose not to dwell on the subject of a God. It's a waste of my life, the only one I have, to worry about something that may not even exist.

Answer 5

In some ways you are right, you have the freedom to choose what you want to believe. Theologically God is what the Bible says, fundamentalist christians make this clear. Being told what to believe is how some countries work, but not this one. So God is what the Bible makes it, and we have our own interpretation of that.

Answer 6

The Hindus have over 4000 gods, so you can have a god for everything if you want. But the real - I Am God, the God of Creation, is what he is, and nothing we say, think or do will have the slightest bearing on him.

Answer 7

Yes. In religion, it fashions a god that it can handle, and can be dictated by its constituents. Some are fashioning idols made of woods or stones to be prayed, kneeled by its religious members. etc.
But Christianity is not a religion. It is a life live in Christ after understanding and believing that He arose from the dead and will die no more. That it can be theirs also, those who accept Him as their Lord God and Saviour, and can have eternal life.

Answer 8

Well certainly.
You decide whether or not he exists to you.
You decide whether or not he is one or many.
You decide whether or not he is for peace or war.
Et Cetera!

By choosing which faith you believe, and to what extent you take their holy scripture word for word, or a loose translation, is what God ultimately becomes.

Unfortunately we can't prove what/where/when/who he is, and because of it, we are forced to determine for ourselves whats what around here.

Good luck trying to nail down one belief, its not easy or simple in any aspect.

Answer 9

yes god is what we make it eg. take the word good drop an o and u have god take the word devil drop the d u have evil so we are good in general or evil and cruel which one do u come under be honest.

Answer 10

The fact is that we know, we all know. And when we know we also know that we do not know all that is there, and even all that can be known. Our knowledge is in fact relative and associatively referential. I know you I a way, for instance, just because as I know other people around me, and then I know other people with a constant reference to myself, as I know myself with reference to other people around me who are like mirrors to by being. Then my knowledge of how good I am in life is relative. It is relative to my position in life, and also to my environment.

With this type of knowledge we see only what is visible and the rest we speculate, imagine and dream about. And how far we can speculate, and how good our dreams can get? They can be only as good as perception of an immediate world around us allow them to be. I can dream of an ideal person, for instance, for my life, because I know normal limits to a normal person in the world, as I have seen many people. I can reasonably idealise him or her within certain limits of my fancies. But when it comes to defining the supreme, the absolute, where there are no limits, my knowledge crumbles and logic falls apart like a house of cards.

I can build a house with limits. I can run a race with distance in view. I can get rich and know how rich I am. I can have friends and know how good they are. But I cannot build anything, any dream, a concept or a notion that has no limits. Whatever is limitless in my mind is not man made; it is innate to my nature.

My own being gives me realisation of a supreme being beyond all limits that I can believe in. The limitlessness of the concept of God make me believe in the grandeur of the His being, and the fact that I can experience this myself make me feel that I bear some essential link with Him that is essential in my being.