If God is not a hypothesis, if God is not an idea, then what is God?

Answer 1

God is not a hypothesis because there is no way for science to discover God. Science does not move inwards, it moves outwards, and there you will find the world of things.

So God is not a hypothesis.

God is not an idea because an idea is a philosophical concept, and philosophers only go on weaving thoughts, ideas, rationalizations -- and they create great systems of thought....

If you look into their systems of thought you will be immensely impressed. For example, Hegel or Kant... if you are not alert, you will be surprised at what a palatial system they have made -- but there is no base. And it is not a palatial building either; if you come closer you will find it is made of playing cards. A little breeze and the whole palace falls down, because there is no base to it.

Philosophy is baseless. It makes castles in the air.

Ideas are just ideas. You can project an idea you like, nobody can prevent you; and once you project the idea you can find all kinds of rationalizations to support it. There is no difficulty.

God is not an idea, although philosophers have tried... because philosophers are trespassers; they simply don't believe that any territory is not their territory. They will enter into every direction, into every dimension, and they have some idea for everything. A philosopher never says, "I don't know." He knows! And not only does he know, but he will give you all the arguments and proofs that his knowledge is valid. So how can they leave out such an important area like God?
The first argument I have talked to you about is that everything needs a creator; hence God is needed. Now it is clear that this is not an argument. Immediately the question is shifted back -- who created God? And then there is no end to it. But this is thought to be the most important argument brought in by philosophers in support of God.

It has been so easy for the atheists to laugh at these philosophers and these theologians: "What kind of arguments are these people giving?" But atheists have not been very different either.

One very famous atheist, Diderot, was speaking and he stood up and told the audience, "If God exists and you say He is all-powerful then let Him stop the clock, this very moment. I will wait one minute." He waited one minute. The clock did not stop. He said, "Now you see He is not powerful. He cannot even stop the clock. He is not even courageous enough to accept my challenge."

But are these arguments? Some cunning person can manage to fix the clock so that at nine it will stop. And when it reaches nine, he stands up and says, "God, prove yourself If you are real let the clock stop within one minute; otherwise it will prove that you don't exist." And the clock stops; God is proved.... These are arguments? Neither the stopping of the clock nor the not stopping of the clock can make any substantial contribution to the proof of God.

Hence I say God is not an idea.

You ask me: Then what is God?

It is simply a word, a meaningless word, hollow inside, with no substance in it. It is simply a word without any meaning at all, so you can play with it.

Nobody has seen Him.
Nobody has met Him.
Nobody has heard Him.

Still everybody is waiting for Him... that now He must be coming, that it is time, He should be here.

What are the Jews doing? Waiting, waiting. And they were angry when Jesus said, "I have come." He was disturbing their waiting.

That's one thing which should be clearly understood. When Moses sees God, nobody asks him, "How did you recognize Him? -- because you have not seen Him before."

Recognition needs you to have seen Him before; otherwise some charlatan or somebody may be deceiving you.

When Jesus hears voices of God, or Mohammed hears them, how do they recognize that those voices are God's? Have they heard Him before? Their recognition is not valid. They may have heard some voices, many mad people hear them. They may have seen somebody, many mad people see somebody. You can go into any madhouse and you will see a madman alone talking to another who is not there, and not only talking, but answering also from his side.

Just pure hallucinations, imagination, continual listening to idiotic sermons... millions of people waiting with great expectation -- the imagination fires up: just a little effort and you will see God.

But remember, whatever you see is not you. Whatever you see is some object. And religion's basic concern is not objective. Its basic concern is your subjectivity. When all seeing disappears, all hearing disappears, and all thinking disappears... when all your senses are silent, in that it transpires.

Answer 2

If god is not, at the very least, an idea, then god is nothing. One could debate that an idea, itself, is nothing. Perhaps god is an idea of nothing or that nothing is an idea of god. God may share the same space with ideas or maybe ideas are like the photons of a god.

Something to think about when one is wasting the time that may be better spent getting some action.

Answer 3

Around the tenth century AD the Christian church was struggling with the same philosophical question, and they came up with what I believe was a good answer. They decided that God, and faith in God, has three essential aspects.

First is the concept of an able and creative God. A God beyond human understanding, a God free of the constraints of time and space, able to create the universe, and able to overcome the enigma of God's own creation.

Second is the concept of a loving God. A God who molded the human mind in his own image, endowing it with his own freedom, yet wanting it to be creative, wanting it to be helpful, supportive, and loving of all things.

Third is the concept of an influential God within each and every human soul. A friendly God, passionately wanting our own free will to distinguish between clarity and frustration, between satisfaction and desire, and between good and evil.

Answer 4

God is not a hypothesis. God is not an idea. God is the only reality that is to be realized.

Answer 5

God is the ideal to follow for any humanbeing.He is the mountain of untraceable summit. A star which could only be gazed but nothing more be known by an ordinary observer.But for God we need not be good and truthful.Not out of fear but out of love for Him, to get His appreciation and regards.
It is due to belief in God that a person could achieve humility of spirit and control of ego.

Answer 6

God is a belief,a faith.Not an ordinary faith ,a deep routed faith the knowledge of which is based on valid scriptures. The love and friendship towards Him should be like perennial flow of flooding river water , continuous,never ceasing, which overtakes all obstacles in the journey.The love towards Him should be over and above what one would has towards his kith and kin &dear most worldly properties.
The god is all powerful, all pervasive,controller over both good and evil .He is without any blemish

Answer 7

God is an idea, a belief to hold on. An "X" factor as in Science . It is beyond our body, mind and intellect to find a meaning for God.

Answer 8

Asking me what is God is like asking an earthworm what a nuclear reaction is, except for the fact that an earthworm would never think that it knew the answer. How come people who can't even unravel the mysteries of their cell phone's settings menu think they have unravel the ultimate mystery of the universe? Knowing something like this is so beyond me and everyone.

Answer 9

The God that is the creator is merely the Universe which is beyond our understanding.

The God of prayer is merely the subconscious mind that is beyond our consciousness.

It's only pragmatically helpful to think these two concepts are one and the same but there is absolutely no proof that this is the case.

Answer 10

God is possibly a thought formed over tons of years to create an apparent mind set that has powered people to write and create tons of media things attributed to God. I.e., songs, books, videos, etc.