Please give me your definition for what a 'god' is?

Question

Its hard to say if god exists or not if we don't have a clear definition of what you are talking about.

Nice wikipasting.

But you are just proving my point. There is no standard definition for what a god is. Its pretty much make up the rules as you go along.

No one can tell me what a god can and can't do, what he is made out of, where he is, why he is..
You people can't explain the concept of a god to someone how has never heard of it.

How can you say god exists when you dont even know what a god is?

God is everything, everywhere all the time?

So god is rape? god is child molestation? god is torture? god is children dying in a fire? you said everything everywhere..

thats why god needs to be defined, otherwise saying you love god and believe in him is just a nonsense statement. the word 'god' doesn't mean anything!!

Answer 1

God is ... an excuse to let others do your thinking for you. As Devo said, Freedom from thought is what I want. They must have known some theists.

Answer 2

Even Jesus admitted that we lack the capacity to fully comprehend and understand His Father. Jesus gave the best description you will ever find in The Apocryphon of John. Obsessing about defining or proving God only distracts us from the goal that has been set for us to accomplish in our lifetime. Just do it.

Answer 3

God is everything everywhere all the time. God is a spiritual being of love, kindness, peace and justice.

Answer 4

Gatherer Of Data

Answer 5

the kabbalistic term for G-d is Ein Sof - "Without End"

it kind of implies that there is nothing that G-d is NOT.

how can you define something that is everything? you would have to speak the words of every language, you would have to bark like a dog and blow like the wind, you would have to be eating everything from cheerios to escargot, you would have to be feeling everything from a soft breeze to a burning fire, you would have to be smelling something as sweet as roses and as awful as sewage, you would have to be praying and sinning, you would have to be giving birth and dying... and still you would probably be missing something.

Answer 6

God: noun, one of many thousands of mythlogical archtypes created by the human imagination. Most often created with human-like qualities.

Answer 7

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I dont know what is really a god.
I am experiencing a lot new things in the path of realisation.
Many opinions, ideas which was in my mind, now totally changed.
One thing I pretty sure that god or truth whatever it may be, it cannot be shown, only realised.
There is no answer for your question.
If anything is there it is not true.

Answer 8

That is for you to find out?
That is the purpose of what life is all about on planet earth.
Better hurry and find it out.
Here's a guiding star "A ticket to ride"
Will miss the boat without the ticket.
Will die laughing in my grave.
Luke 9.60

Answer 9

This is a strange world, and it appear to you according to your own desire, so if you tend to believe there is no God, then no proof is enough, but if your desire is true you can observe within your self, and yourself is the sole proof of the existence of God. How to testify it, is from three sources, one own intellect, understanding of Prophets and Revealed book on them. Following is the brief detail, hopefully you may not read it for one time only.

Meaning
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God means that there is a Creator, who creates the universe and things between them, most powerful and Supreme. God is generally regarded as the sole creator of the universe, The name "God" typically refers to the Abrahamic God, in Judaism (EL (god) or YHVH), Christianity (God or Holy Spirit), and Islam (Allah, The One Worthy of Worship).

There are broadly four concepts of worshipping or believing in (or in the name of) God, which is prevailing in religions, no matter whether they are major or minor religions, revealed or not, sects or school of thoughts, philosophy or intellect. These concepts are;

1)Singular; No deity (or associates) But God Alone is the only Creator, One Worthy of Worship. This concept is found in one religion only i.e. Islam.
2)Associates; Making association or partners with the real one God. Found also in major organized revealed religions e.g. Christianity.
3)Plurals; Gods and/or Goddesses (deity or Idols), mixture of imaginary and real characters, with or without real one God. Found in many religions e.g. Hinduism.
4)Opposites; No god (gods and/or goddesses (deity or Idols)). Apparently they worship no one or no religion, in reality they worship there own desires, hence there idols are more imaginary, hidden and complex. Concept found in many religions and sects, and in the thoughts of individuals e.g. Atheist.

So there are not so many religions on the earth, only four religions, having many shapes.

Conclusion
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As it is impossible to get all the thoughts and then reconcile it, the attributes so is personel, however it can be analyse logically and can be testify with sacred books.

Breifly:

He resembles with no one, alone, unique, absolute, supreme and the Creator. He has no body, He has created us so we may realize Him.

In depth;

He is the sole self subsisting, all pervading, eternal, and Absolute Reality. [8] He is the first and the last, the seen and the unseen. [9] He is transcendent in the sense that He in His full glory cannot be known or experienced by us finite beings beings that can know only what can be experienced through the senses or otherwise and what is inherent in the nature of thought or is implied by it. No vision can grasp Him. He is above all comprehension. [10] He is transcendent also because He is beyond the limitations of time, space, and sense content. He was before time, space, and the world of sense came into existence. He is also immanent both in the souls (inner) and the spatio temporal order (outter). Of the exact nature of God we can know nothing. But, in order that we may apprehend what we cannot comprehend, He uses similitudes from our experience. [11] He "is the light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp, the lamp enclosed in glass; the glass as if it were a brilliant star lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: light upon light !" [12]. Likewise for our understanding, He describes through revelation His attributes by similitude from what is loftiest in the heavens and the earth [13] and in our own experience [14] (our highest ideals). This He does in a language and an idiom which the people addressed to may easily understand. [15] These attributes are many and are connoted by His names, [16] but they can all be summarized under a few essential heads: Life, [17] Eternity, [18] Unity, [19] Power, [20] Truth, [21] Beauty, [22] Justice, [23] Love, [24] and Goodness. [25] As compared to the essence of God, these attributes are only finite approaches, symbols or pointers to Reality and serve as the ultimate human ideals, but though signs and symbols, they are not arbitrary symbols. God has Himself implanted them in our being. For that reason they must, in some sense, be faithful representations of the divine essence. They must at least be in tune with it, so that in pursuing them we human beings are truly in pursuit of what is at least in harmony with the essence of God, for they are grounded in that essence.

God is, thus; a living, self subsisting, [26] eternal, and absolutely free creative reality which is one, all powerful, a11 knowing, all beauty, most just, most loving, and all good.

As a living reality God desires intercourse with His creatures and makes it possible for them to enter into fellowship with Him through prayer, contemplation, and mystic gnosis, and lights with His light the houses of those who do not divert from His remembrance, nor from prayer, nor from the practice of regular charity. [27] His life expresses itself also through His eternal activity and creativeness. God is one and there is no god but He. [28] He is the only one [29] and there is none like Him. [30] He is too high to have any partners. [31] If there were other gods besides Him, some of them would have lorded over others. He has begotten neither sons nor daughters [34] nor is He Himself begotten. [35] And how could He be said to have sons and daughters when He has no consort ? [36]

He is "one" worthy of worship and to love.

Answer 10

knowing and loving God will either make you or break you. he brought you into this world and he can deliver you up or down!