What is God? (please be specific)

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 11 Jul 2004 12:00 PDT

You are asking can only be answered with an opinionated response. Is
"anyone's" opinion an acceptible answer?

tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by gruvhaus-ga on 11 Jul 2004 12:04 PDT

No it's not...I'm aware that opinion's differ...but what is god? I'm
sure there is an in depth answer to the question.

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 11 Jul 2004 12:07 PDT

God is many things to many people. If you are looking for an answer
that gives an example of what God is to "everyone" of every faith and
non-faith, I doubt you'll get an "in depth answer" for the price you
have offered.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

He/She/It is either

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and
omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship
in monotheistic religions

or

any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the
world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

or

The great Cosmic Being Who ensouls this planet, embodying all the Laws
and all the energies governed by those Laws, which make up everything
that we see and cannot see.

or

Obviously, this is an impossible word to define. After all, to
"define" a thing means putting boundaries around it, and God is
Infinity, the very absence of boundaries. Further, being Infinite, God
is by definition (!) beyond the capacity of our egoic minds ("I am me,
and you aren't") to understand. That is, despite our protestations to
the contrary, most of us perceive God as being "out there" (or "up
there", even "in here"), as somewhere or something other than
ourselves. And that's the problem! In Truth, there is no such thing as
a "God out there". Once again, being Infinite, God is everywhere and
no where, everything and no thing. God is our very Self which itself
is The Very Self. Thus, at TZF we often say: There is no God but God,
and God is All There Is. See also God's Gender, Christ, Realization,
Teacher.

or

the First Person in the Trinity; the Creator, the Source of all being
or life; the Father, Whose Fatherhood is established by the existence
of His Son, Christ; the First Cause, Whose Son is His Effect; God's
essence is spirit, which is shared with all creation, whose unity is
the state of Heaven.


all depending on one's view

An enlightened being would probably tell you:

There is 'no thing' that is God

There is nothing that is not God

The paradox comes with the territory of attempting
to use a dualistic language to define a non-dualistic
reality.

An answer- "The intangable essence of perfection"

Dear corwin02: The only answer I can provide is biblically based. If
you give no credence to the Word of God, then I'm afraid my answer
will be quite unsatisfactory to you. If, however, you give the
following answer the benefit of the doubt, all of the following can be
verified from any existing version of the Bible you can put your hands
on. I have been reading the Bible and bible-related material (books,
magazines, articles) for the better part of 27 years, this is the
closest I've come to a "complete" answer. It so happens that I asked
the very same question as you back in 1977. Good luck in your quest!

THE AWESOME NATURE OF OUR ONE TRUE GOD

In the empty void before the beginning of time and space there was the
ONE. He did not come into existence - He was self existent and,
therefore, immortal (Jn. 5:26; 1Tim. 6:16). He existed and He was thus
a being (or that which exists). The ancient Hebrews referred to Him as
Eloha and the Chaldeans as Elahh. This word came down to the Arabs as
Allah. He was singular and alone. See (Deut. 32:15,17; Job (45
places); Ezra 4:24 to 7:26; Dan. 3:25; Prov. 30:4-5). He was.

Eloha was a Spirit (Jn.4:24). He did not act on whim or impulse. He
simply thought about what He would do. In the vast pre-eternity, as
pure Spirit, He explored the potential of His actions. He does not
change (Jms. 1:17; Mal. 3:6) or experiment. He is thus immutable. He
thought through the enormous expanse of what lay ahead. This all
powerful being of pure Spirit examined the complex interconnected
structure (or matrix) of all true propositions. He examined the cause
and effect of each action that He would take and of all that sprung
from His acts. He then thought forward to the end of the entire
process of His actions and the consequence of each an every reaction.
As there was no matter or physical existence, all of these actions
were connected by theoretical relationships. He knew all truth. As He
was pure Spirit, this knowledge was instantiated in His essence as
truth. (Deut. 32:4). He was truth.

He was able to declare the end from the beginning. He was thus
omniscient (all knowing). (Isa. 46:10; Ps. 147:5; Mat. 24:36; 1Tim.
6:16). He knew what was logically possible to be done and He knew how
He could do it. He was omnipotent (all powerful). (Mk. 14:36; Lk.
1:37). He knew what was good from the consequence of His omniscience
and His nature. Hence He was Good. (Ps.34:8). From the balance of
Goodness and Truth in His essence of being, He was Righteous. (Ezra
9:15). From His nature He was Righteous and hence Holy (Lev. 19:2). In
this balance He was Perfect (Mat. 5:48).

Abiding in perpetuity, He desired to extend His mode of existence and
to share that mode of existence with others who would be like Him. In
short, He desired a family of beings like Himself, acting as One. In
this desire, He had established from the basis of His nature how that
extended being should operate. That nature of interaction or system of
operation was set as His Law. His Law, which proceeded from His
nature, was thus also Righteous (Ps.119:172), Perfect (Ps. 19:7), Holy
(Rom. 7:12), Good (Rom. 12:7), Truth (Ps.119:142). He thus determined,
"to be what He would become". This aspect was revealed much later to
the Hebrews as "eyeh 'asher'eyeh" or in english as, "I am what I am"
or "I will be as I will be" or "become", (Ex. 3:15). He knew that for
the product of His activity to be eternal or everlasting, it must be
as He was. It must govern itself as He himself was governed and it
must interact along the laws that determined His own being.

CORRECTION: My last post was in answer to "gruvhaus-ga" and not
"corwin02-ga", sorry!

GOD=Good Old Darling ;)

A dyslexic dog...

I believe God is our literal spiritual father. He is perfect, wise,
and loving. He organized the matter in the universe, making planets,
stars, and life. We were created in his image, as stated in Genesis of
the Bible. With his help, we can try to be more like him. In fact,
that's why we are here, is to learn to be better people. Those are
just some of my own beliefs.

"Googlism" provides many answers to the question "What is god?", but
some of the answers are pretty wacky:

http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=god&type=2

http://bible.gospelcom.net/

God is dog spelled backwards.

God is a dyslexic's pet.

God is whatever you want it to be...