God is a human invention. That's as advanced a definition as I can offer.
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2007-08-27 10:32:05
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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It is important to realize that just because something is written in the Bible, doesn't mean it's accurate. People wrote it, and over time, people have changed it. What made it into the Bible is only a fraction of what ancient documents actually existed at the time (strike one). Not everyone had the same views as whoever wrote that verse, it just happened to be that the group of people that made the selection of what would make it into the Bible felt the same about it (strike two). Also, there's the fact that these kinds of things were acceptable at that point in time, so it makes sense that in this modern world we'd find something strange about these passages. Slaves were the lowest of the lowest people in ancient Roman civilization -- doing cruel things to them was acceptable back then because that's the way things were (strike three!). We've come a long way since then (thousands and thousands of years in fact)! Now, if the documents of the Bible were written 20 years ago, then we'd have something to be concerned about. It's just a matter of understanding that we live in a different world now.
2016-05-19 04:08:50
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answered by ? 3
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Advanced? I'd suggest you do some advanced reading if you want advanced definitions. Start with Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", move on to Stephen Hawkings "Universe" and finally Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." That should tell you just about everything you could possibly need to know about god.
2007-08-27 10:32:42
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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Nowhere in the Scriptures is an attempt made to prove the existence of God. However, everywhere in the Bible, the existence of God is set forth as an evident fact. Therefore, we are admonished "Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh to God MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS." Heb; 11:6.
The idea of man, by his own efforts, reaching a knowledge of God and fellowship with Him is foreign to the Bible. Always, it is God seeking man, since man in his unregenerate state, is on the run from God. (Gen. 3:8-9, Luke 15:1-4, Rom. 5:20)
2007-08-27 10:40:14
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answered by Anonymous
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Hi, God is great. what ever good in this universe belongs to God, and all the bad belongs to Satan. Quran is only true words said by God, cuz in Quran He clearly described that no one can change this book (He took this responsiblity uptil judgement day) cuz in previous 3 Books (Tu'raat, Za'bur and In'jeel ) people changed those books according to there desire's. otherwise they were also God's words. To find the True God you dont have to go anywhere, cuz he have put souls in us. these Souls Quran tells infact saw Em clearly even before creation of Adam. read Quran and you will feel GOD, l promise. in translation cuz we all can not uderstand Arabic.
2007-08-27 11:04:04
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answer #5
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answered by Animator 3
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GOD is the concept of all things being created by one omnipotent being, who monitors life on Earth. GOD is not specific to any particular belief, but is simply the idea of a superior being, who watches over and cares for lour human soul. Indians, Greeks, Asians, and Western philosphies all had different ideologies on the concept of GOD, but herein lies the definition of GOD - a superior, omnipotent being who we are at the mercy of.
2007-08-27 10:34:07
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answered by Anonymous
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God is the only Perfect being. He Exists without being Created - He is Uncreated. He Exists without a beginning or an end - He is Eternal and Absolute. He does not beget neither was He begotten and there is nothing like Him. And He is Allah the One and Only.
2007-08-27 10:36:45
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answer #7
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answered by Mogambo 3
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God, religion, and anything else like that was made up by man in the early days of our history to help explain the things that we didn't know at the time (like...how the Earth was created, what happens after we die, etc.) and they made faith out of it and people believed it...time goes on and more and more gods/goddesses appear all over the place...so....I guess that is about as advanced as I can get...oh, and that implies ALL religions, Greek, Pagan, Wicca, Christian, Islam, Judaism...and the likes.
2007-08-27 10:34:55
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answered by Anonymous
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A bearded guy who allows millions of children to contract fatal and horrible viruses (which he created by the way) every year, murders people with tsunami and hurricanes, and allows wars, rape, poverty and famine to happen even though he knew ahead of time and had all the power to stop it. Not a very nice guy if you ask me. Oh, and to top it off: If you don't worship him, regardless if you're a good person you're going to burn in hell for all eternity. Not a very nice guy at all.
2007-08-27 10:33:14
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answer #9
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answered by Tanjo22 3
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Well, now that you've asked you will definitely not be sorry, nor will you be bored:
It begins... "IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia--that being the name of your world--there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. ..."
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" The eternal God is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. God is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is God merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. God is a transcendent reality, not merely man's traditional concept of supreme values. God is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he "the noblest work of man." God may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death. ..."
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"In the contemplation of Deity, the concept of personality must be divested of the idea of corporeality. A material body is not indispensable to personality in either man or God. The corporeality error is shown in both extremes of human philosophy. In materialism, since man loses his body at death, he ceases to exist as a personality; in pantheism, since God has no body, he is not, therefore, a person. The superhuman type of progressing personality functions in a union of mind and spirit.
Personality is not simply an attribute of God; it rather stands for the totality of the co-ordinated infinite nature and the unified divine will which is exhibited in eternity and universality of perfect expression. Personality, in the supreme sense, is the revelation of God to the universe of universes.
God, being eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or comprehend, but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of self-realization which are in certain ways comparable to, and analogous with, the acquirement of new experience by the finite creatures of the evolutionary worlds.
The absolute perfection of the infinite God would cause him to suffer the awful limitations of unqualified finality of perfectness were it not a fact that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect soul in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to ascend to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This progressive experience of every spirit being and every mortal creature throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father's ever-expanding Deity-consciousness of the never-ending divine circle of ceaseless self-realization.
It is literally true: "In all your afflictions he is afflicted." "In all your triumphs he triumphs in and with you." His prepersonal divine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of universes; the Eternal Son includes all the spirit impulses of all creation; the Conjoint Actor encompasses all the mind expression of the expanding cosmos. The Universal Father realizes in the fullness of the divine consciousness all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary creation of time and space. And all this is literally true, for "in Him we all live and move and have our being." ..."
And there is oh so much more... click here:
http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/toc.html
2007-08-27 10:39:47
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answered by Holly Carmichael 4
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