for you, what does God mean?

Answer 1

In a word: Love.

In eleven words: The supreme power of the universe, of everything that is: Love.

Answer 2

God is different to everyone. If you're willing to let a priest decide how to live your life, then god will be what the priest tells you he is. To me god is not what priests tell me he is. What entity would put his creation through all the suffering we have seen. Religious war wreaked havoc in the past. It was all about power. Take something inexplicable and say it's the work of an all powerful being and you'll have people eating out of your hands.

Answer 3

God could best be decribed as the original sourse of energy from which all came. That does not mean that he has any part in how things have developed or that he in any way interacts with any person or religion. Basically the begining.

Answer 4

Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Search Results

Result of search for "god":

410 'el ale shortened from 352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):--God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el."

352 'ayil ah'-yil from the same as 193; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:--mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

430 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
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433 'elowahh el-o'-ah; rarely (shortened) >eloahh {el-o'-ah probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410; a deity or the Deity:--God, god. See 430.

Unger's Bible Dictionary page 412 states that the word El is a Canaanite word meaning God or devil.

The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 1, page 817, under Demonology, says the word Elohim (plural form of El) means demons or Gods.



The Encyclopedia Britanica, Volume 23, page 867, confirms the fact that the proper, original Name Yahweh was replaced with common substitutes:
YAHWEH, the proper name of the Father of Yisrayl; it is composed of four consonants (YHWH) in Hebrew and is therefore called the tetragrammaton...

Answer 5

Robbie Fowler

Answer 6

For the most part, an imaginary big daddy. It probably represents those all powerful and all protecting beings perceived as infants which were your parents. At least by what seems to be most perceptions through out the ages. Of course, we have no idea what creation is and, fine, call it God.

Answer 7

The creator cannot be created, he is Absolute!

The Meaning of the Holy Quran
4:163. Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad ) as We inspired Nûh (Noah) and the Prophets after him; We (also) inspired Ibrâhim (Abraham), Ismâ'il (Ishmael), Ishâque (Isaac), Ya'qûb (Jacob), and Al­Asbât [the twelve sons of Ya'qûb (Jacob)], 'Iesa (Jesus), Ayub (Job), Yûnus (Jonah), Hârûn (Aaron), and Sulaimân (Solomon), and to Dawûd (David) We gave the Zabûr (Psalms).

Answer 8

God is my reason for being. He is my Lord, my Rock, my Redeemer, my Saviour, my Strength, my Shield and my greatest love. He is constant and faithful when the world is unreliable and fickle and His arm is always there to reassure and comfort me at times when I'm down. He is beautiful and I adore Him. God bless :)

Answer 9

The connection between every single object, physical and metaphsical, materialising as a deity through times of seperation, experianced as a whole in times of great inspiration!

Answer 10

Chuck Norris