Define God

Just to see what the differing opinions are, put god into your own words.

God (as viewed by me)- Love


No flaming other peoples opinions. There may be disagreements, but try to be accepting.

 

I agree with you God is love! God is amazing!

 

"God is love"

 

the which than which none is whicher...

 

The father of lies. Loveable, pretty awesome, and altogether wickedly fun, although annoying unbendable to my will. I mean, waht's up people! The director won't alter the script that I am a part of because I am in it as I am intended to be. ARGHH!!

 

God-The Father, The Creator, possibly unformed, one part of The Trinity [and the Trinity is One]...

The Holder of Mercy, The Good One...

 

Our attempts to define God are useless! God is above our conceptions, above our small and limited minds or powers of intellect to define. We can say: God is love, God is omniscient, omnipotent etc, but none of it really defines Him.

Maybe it's easier to define what God is not.

*peace*

 

I agree w/you Blackbill

 

God's a poser.

 

I agree with Kharakov, throughout history God has decided to take many different forms and names; he has been consistently hypocritical, either wrathful or loving (make up your mind, God). Kharakov is right, God has no sense of Identity, his personality is so malleable that it would almost seem like he was just a creation of Men whose characteristics flux on the whims and desires of other Men.
Not only that, God is the worst kind of poser, one who will not stick to One artificial personality.

 

I didn't mean that. I meant God poses as many different things and beings. Of course, just like an actor who poses as a character to achieve a certain emotional effect, God act's differently to build God's children emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. The thing is, God's posing has a purpose to it- God poses as things to build your soul and make you happy.

Saying "God is Love" is sorta retarded, because love is an emotion you feel. I love God (and us). God loves us. Love is God's occupation- what God does, not what God is. It's like calling a plumber plumbing- it describes what the plumber does, but is syntactically incorrect (if I am incorrect about this rambling tangent line of reasoning, please correct me, earlier today I was thinking about how retarded it was to say someone is what they do). Improper use of the english language.

Maybe people should say "God is a lover" instead of "God is love", but you know how people are.

Either Jesus was a retard, the quote was mistranslated, or Jesus was just being all philosophically and semantically deep and didn't really give a flying fuck about the proper use of language. He certainly didn't obey the sabbath.

Not at all. God might appear that way to someone who doesn't know what God is doing.

 

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. ok so john lennon said that.

this here's a verse from a poem I wrote a while back but I still think I'll mention it:
"As God may sit upon his throne,
Absorbed within the midnight pray,
God, all the same, sits all alone,
Deliberating midnight may."

so what is God? alone.

peace,
Robi

 

God
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it."

 

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GOD is who you choose(yes, you have a choice) to serve!

"god" is not some unknown entity or a "name" or a "descriptor"
recorded in a book.

most serve their own flesh, most are self-serving, and they see
their "god" every time they look in a mirror.

sad that so many serve "time" in the prison that is this world(babylon).

yet, while there is breath(spirit) there is hope!

hope many will make a "right" choice and serve HE WHO created them!
HE WHO gave them, and yet gives them breath(life).......

peace, even as war(spiritual and carnal) rages....... francisco
http://ASpiritualJourney.Org

 

God is the unknown... as in, when someone can't explain something, they blame it on god.

Sooner or later, science will disprove god - but not by actully setting up a test where the result will be "no god", but eventuly, we'll understand mostly everything, and the unknown just won't exist.

Man created god in his image.

 

How will we know when we know everything? What I mean is, how will we ever be certain that there are no more facts to be known? I'm also not clear on what exactly it means to know everything. Will we know, for example, the truth concerning ethics? Will we know what makes the Sistine Chaple ceiling beautiful? How will science answer such questions?

 

I agree with you pretty much.
Even if all the laws of physics were known etc. it wouldn't tell us anything about meaning in our existence, about why we exist.

 

Ethics are subjective, just like morals and most other things.. What one person thinks is unethical (such as, i dunno, homosexual sex, off the top of my head), another person might take part in on a regular basis.

"It's objectively absolute that morals are subjectively relative."

 

There is no "why" - not on the level you're thinking of. There is no "meaning".

Why do we exist - because our parients had sex, and their parients before them, etc etc.. until you get far enough back, to the simplest lifeform, reproducing using cell splitting. They were produced by a chemical reaction, which itself would have been produced by another chemical reaction, etc..
going further and further back. That is why we exist. Admittadly, we don't know it all yet, but we're learning.