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Evidently, however important it may seem to have a clear definition of God, that ain't happening.
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There is no one definition of God. I imagine that it varies from person to person. God is more of a feeling for me. It's a feeling of understanding that almost everything can be beautiful, but you don't know why. It's also a feeling of being small and insignificant but at the same time understanding that you have value. And being thankful for all of that.
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God is everything we do not understand in this world and it is our job to learn and eventually destroy it!!! Ok, that is just me being a little facetious. God came about when we wanted to understand how the world works and god is just that, an initial attempt at understanding the world around us.
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We are all God...we must come to that realization on our own to understand the power we have within. All humans have a "seed" of God in them waiting to come to fruition.Together we make one amazing entity.
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I had a theology professor define God as "that from which you expect all good things."
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First a little question: if you want to know about God, who is the only person that can truly give you information on God? The answer, logically, is God Himself. So a true seeker should use his or her intelligence to find where in the great spiritual traditions of the world, God has spoken about Himself in detail. This will lead you to the ancient and rich tradition of bhakti-yoga, or Krishna consciousness – in such texts as the Bhagavad-gita, the Srimad Bhagavatam, the Upanishads and complementary texts written by great masters of this tradition.
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First a little question: if you want to know about God, who is the only person that can truly give you information on God? The answer, logically, is God Himself. So a true seeker should use his or her intelligence to find where in the great spiritual traditions of the world, God has spoken about Himself in detail. This will lead you to the ancient and rich tradition of bhakti-yoga, or Krishna consciousness – in such texts as the Bhagavad-gita, the Srimad Bhagavatam, the Upanishads and complementary texts written by great masters of this tradition.
There you can find an endless treasure trove of information on God, His abode, His associates, how to connect (yoga) with Him, etc. Objectively speaking, there is simply nothing like it in any other religious or spiritual tradition.
There is so much information, so a little reply on Soulpancake won’t cut it, but here’s a nice starting point: http://www.stephen-knapp.com/sri_krishna.htm.
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Matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration We are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, Theres no such thing as death, Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselfs"
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Matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration We are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, Theres no such thing as death, Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselfs"
- Bill Hicks I think this universal conciousness is god.
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There is no way to define a being we cannot comprehend. God is a higher and perfect being who created us and we, as imperfect creations, cannot comprehend infinity, perfection, and power on the level at which He is.
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I do not believe in a God that exists outside oneself. I believe God is but a name for the universal law we all exist within. Our human existance is an expression of the universe and ones karma (good or bad). I don't believe that heaven or hell exist outside of oneself. Raised as a Buddhist, I've never been taught a belief in the traditional idea of God however I am reading a book by Wayne Dyer, The Art of Manefistation, and in it he suggests that if God were the ocean and you were but a cup of the ocean, would the cup of ocean still be God? Of course. We are not separate from the source but are expressions of the source, no difference.
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Oh, how can you describe something that is essentially everything? It's tangible and intangible. It's a hard task.
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Oh, how can you describe something that is essentially everything? It's tangible and intangible. It's a hard task.
I like the idea of a Prime Mover. Or the Ruler of the Universe. God does not negate the advancement of science and it is not negated by advancement. I tend to lean towards pantheism and believe that God has different names, different incarnations, etc.
However, I like to think of God as the friend that is beside you always. They don't judge you. They love you. They help you through the tough times and are with you at times of celebration. They listen, but like a psychiatrist, they rarely give you direct advice. Rather, when you ask God a question, (s)he just repeats it back to you for your to answer yourself. I find him/her mostly in music, nature, and silence.
(S)he is what you choose to believe and although we share meaning and understanding in our respective religions and beliefs, to me it's a personal expereince that no one else can quite describe or understand. Everyone is different with a different perspective.
Again, God is omipotent, omnipresent, the beginning and the end. It's really hard to describe it with one definition.
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i propose we're talking about a Someone who is to us as we are to pages in a book, that in the world of "flatland" there is Someone who dwells at least one dimension beyond, and therefore conceives in a higher-ordered realm. then this Someone became flesh. i have an idea why, but in many perspectives, it's quite absurd... and awesome. or i can take the reasonable position and say, "it depends."
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So then you are god??... I am god? The pen on my desk is god? It may sound poetic when you say it, but it is logical and philosophical nonsense.
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There is no definition of God. God is whatever you choose to believe it is. To me, there needs to be a spiritual component to "God", but other than that, it can be anything, everything or nothing.
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I gave a complex explanation of how there is no clear definition of God that we could all agree on earlier and it is a good point to make... but my opinion:
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I gave a complex explanation of how there is no clear definition of God that we could all agree on earlier and it is a good point to make... but my opinion:
God is Love
This might seem like an oversimplification, or even just a word, but I believe love is that which exists beyond the physical world and that it is what is capable of causing you to not die when the physical world eventually passes from you. It might be more accurate to say that Love is God, and perhaps there is more to God than love, but love is unquestionably the central feature of God in my opinion and where love exists is where God exists in the world. We are all capable of it, and I hope that Love is able to carry us all into eternal life. I believe that is what God wants for us all, and all the messages and interactions God has had with us was to try to teach us this. That's my belief I have formed over the years, in studying Christianity.
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"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." Jesus Christ Book of Revelation 22:13
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if god has always existed, so have we. to say that god has "created" anything makes "him" imperfect. God is static and always present. humans have always made God into an image of ourselves. therefore we have created these fears that has stunted our emotional growth. God is an incredible love and with that love there is nothing to fear.
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Maybe, God is something we know is there...an ultimate creator of everything but we/God is in everyone and we are just asking for a way to access it. Who is to say what God is? or Who God is? Or even where God exists for that matter? I can't say I know the answer to God but I think God is a greater concept that exceeds anything we ever imagined. We ask many questions and maybe god is the one answer--the ultimate knower/creator/destroyer. I don't believe god is some being sitting and judging my way of life but rather, is bigger than me and you and everything that has and will happen. There is definitely no solid definition, because God is fluid
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I read in the book Conversations with God, that god is "every living thing's soul combined" I think there is truth to this. We are all connected through some unseen force. That is God.
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God is the essence of balance and the hope of peace, which ever form or name that presence takes....
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The thing we can feel flowing through all of us that cannot be defined with words or any other measurement. We do not know where it came from or where it is going, but the moment it is present in us it is as if all time comes to a halt.
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God is indescrible its one of the traits that makes a God. Everywhere, anywhere, everything.
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Having read a few replies I would have to say my definition of God is so outside the box.
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Having read a few replies I would have to say my definition of God is so outside the box.
God (I won't get into he/she) is love, master, creator, infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent. God is what you need just when you need it and how you will accept it. Some need formal religion, some would avoid that with every fiber of their being. I have found God to be a very personal thing, intimate is more probable. I could not tell you what GOD IS that would be appropriate for all who ask. I can only define what God is for me.
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I can't say what God is, but I can say what God would be. An entity above and beyond our three-dimensional universe, unbound by time, would look like God to us. Such an entity would be impossible for us to experience directly and would definitely not look like Morgan Freeman..
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What was and will always be, the creator who in love cannot not love or create. An entity that cannot be explain - because, for me, why would I want a God I totally understood or could explain? Someone needs to be running the show that's way smarter than me.
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The definition of God depends on your belief about who God is, or what belief system you are referring to. God may refer to a patriarchal figure, such as a single entity that presides over all things. God may refer to a "force" such as in Star Wars, to give an example I like. To some, God is defined as that which controls all things in the universe. Some don't believe that is the role of God, and not agreeing with this role of God thereby changes the definition of God. Some believe God is an entity that created the universe and set the universe into motion, and then left it alone. This God would have a different definition than the other, and they are not mutually exclusive. That is to say, typically God seems to be defined by His perceived role.
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The definition of God depends on your belief about who God is, or what belief system you are referring to. God may refer to a patriarchal figure, such as a single entity that presides over all things. God may refer to a "force" such as in Star Wars, to give an example I like. To some, God is defined as that which controls all things in the universe. Some don't believe that is the role of God, and not agreeing with this role of God thereby changes the definition of God. Some believe God is an entity that created the universe and set the universe into motion, and then left it alone. This God would have a different definition than the other, and they are not mutually exclusive. That is to say, typically God seems to be defined by His perceived role.
Often when people use the blanket question "Is there a God" they are really asking if there is simply anything more to the universe than the physical, scientific realm. Furthermore, they are probably defining "God" in this question as an immortal being that has certain living characteristics - like consciousness. The more assumptions added on to this concept of "God" (such as omnipotence and omniscience), the further one person's definition will differentiate from another person's.
This is to say its not so easy to say "let's all get on the same page about the definition of God so then it's easier to debate." You might be able to argue for or against one definition of God, but then someone can propose innumerable alternate definitions.
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“Each attempt at defining God is like placing a pebble on Brighton Beach: some are a few feet nearer the water than the others but that doesn’t mean much when the place one is trying to approach is North Africa. “ (Paul Handley, British Editor of The Church Times)
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“Each attempt at defining God is like placing a pebble on Brighton Beach: some are a few feet nearer the water than the others but that doesn’t mean much when the place one is trying to approach is North Africa. “ (Paul Handley, British Editor of The Church Times)
But I understand the question. Another way of thinking about this: when someone says "I don't believe in God," it's interesting to ask, "Which God do you not believe in?"
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God is up and down, good and bad, in and out, here and there, over and under, yesterday, today and tomorrow, the beginning and the end, everything that is or ever will be.
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I agree with previous comments...To define God would lead to enforcing the definition of God. Therefore, diminishing what God's significance means. Persecution begins when definitions are challenged.
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I agree with previous comments...To define God would lead to enforcing the definition of God. Therefore, diminishing what God's significance means. Persecution begins when definitions are challenged.
God is.
That's all that is needed for definition.
However, my personal belief, God is life and birth.
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God is the carpenter of the bench. The writer of the book. The coder of the game. He is the creator. That really is the basis. He loves, all, and shuns none.
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That is a hard questions to answer. The term/title/name has different meanings for everyone. To try and narrow it down to one clear cut definition would mean to have everyone fly under one banner and we have yet to accomplish that over anything.
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The best definition came from my Franciscan theology teacher (he was a Monk, cool guy).
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The best definition came from my Franciscan theology teacher (he was a Monk, cool guy).
God is nothing.
Meaning God is No-Thing.
Not a noun, not an object, being, person, creature, entity, or anything we can define. Trying to define God cheapens and deludes what God is, and this had lead to the problems spiritual people have today as their definitions of God fall short.
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What is God...
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What is God...
God is a man made entity that primitive, illiterate tribes in the dessert invented to explain the world around them. If we believe what is written in the Bible, God is a mean spirited, jealous, hateful, spiteful, unpredictable, wrathful, murderous and bloody minded entity who will gladly wipe out thousands of human beings at a whim. Who will happily flood the entire Earth because he isn't getting enough attention. And who would violently separate the human race into nations because they were trying to understand him.
God exists in the sense that people believe in his existence enough to have an effect on the material world. Of course each interpretation suits the individual interpreter. Which means that since the dawn of this idea there have been wars, conflicts and pissing contests to determine who's imaginary friend is the real one.
God is inescapable. For as long as we fear death we will need him in some guise or another. In language, God is also inescapable. Often referred to by physicists and other scientists to describe something majestic. I.e this from Albert Einstein...
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
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To be honest, I think you ask the impossible. God means something different to everyone, even among people who belong to the same religious denomination. I was just in the thread
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To be honest, I think you ask the impossible. God means something different to everyone, even among people who belong to the same religious denomination. I was just in the thread
"Is it God that created people or people that created God?" and there was a wide range of answers: one woman said she believed God was "both male and female...[and is in] "the environment, nature, animals." Another guy basically said, "Jesus" and left it at that.
If you ask 10 different people what a god is, you will get 10 different answers.
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God is typically used as an answer for questions not yet solved. We used to attribute diseases and earthquakes to God, but since science has discovered germs and plate tectonics, we don't defect to God on those questions. People still say God is the answer to how everything began because we don't know the precise answer yet. But how will we find out if we keep pretending we already have the answer?
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God is typically used as an answer for questions not yet solved. We used to attribute diseases and earthquakes to God, but since science has discovered germs and plate tectonics, we don't defect to God on those questions. People still say God is the answer to how everything began because we don't know the precise answer yet. But how will we find out if we keep pretending we already have the answer?
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God is unconditional love! He is the alpha and the omega, the great I AM. He is part of all that is seen and unseen. He is so much more than we can express with just words.
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No two believers seem to have the same definition of the word.
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No two believers seem to have the same definition of the word.
That's exactly what makes debating God such a tricky conversation. I've had conversations with people who vehemently oppose both religion and atheism. They claim to believe in God but they have their own unique understanding of him or her or it. That's why you should ask people what they specifically believe because by posing it as a yes or no question (‘Does God exist?’) you end up grouping people with contradictory ideologies into the same category. The yes column will be divided into countless sub-factions on issues such as whether or not God is a conscious being or just a metaphor for existence, whether or not there are multiple paths to god, whether or not there is an afterlife, whether or not God condones specific behaviors, whether or not murder is ever justified, whether or not God interferes in human affairs, whether or not God created the earth thousands of years ago or just set the laws of physics and place and backed away, etc. etc. Even within specific faiths and sects it seems that individuals have their own unique definition of God.
That said, if I ever use the word God I use it to mean "everything that exists".
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first off we shouldn't anthropomorphize deity, so words like "Gods will" or "the hands of God" really don't apply. God is the "unmoved mover" or the first cause, the being who set in motion this perpetullay growing changing and evolving cosmos. Not to say that deity is some cold calculation, all one needs to do to see God is turn their heads around LOVE is all around you. We also have to separate God from organized religion, Now I'm in no way condemning them because so many churches have introduced God to so many. Ultimately though no matter where they come from or how old they may be, they are all localized definitions of an intangible essence made apparent through observing the works of God. Despite that rant, God is infinite Love, compassion and almighty. Truly the "unmoved mover" ο? κινο?μενον κινε? ou kinoúmenon kine?
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God is love. God is that warm feeling you get when you see someone or something come to life.
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God is like the wind you dont see him but you feel him and we know him by different names
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The universe's collective energy of which our souls are part of, but we don't feel until we disconnect from the noise and the unreality of what we think is this reality called life. Like Jesus said, God is everywhere; of course!
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A crutch for the insecure and ignorant or for those who are not able to think and act for themselves.
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There is no universally agreed upon definition.
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There is no universally agreed upon definition.
Additionally, how would you know a god if you met one? How would you distinguish it from an advanced alien or some other powerful life-form? What sort of tests would you apply to determine its authenticity? After all, it could be Satan in disguise...Right?
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so here I am, probably in the final...say quarter, or so, of my years, and I still haven't separated the all knowing God who sees and punishes (from my youth) from what I wish he could be, all knowing, all love, parental perhaps but forgiving. It all imploded a few years ago and I walked away from church, from all things to do with religion and now I want to begin to rebuild, redefine...this site is my beginning?
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Whose name is cussed and cursed in vain the world over, in the movies, television, literature, on the street corner or when people get upset and angry? Jesus Christ's name. This speaks volumes as to Who God really is.
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I personally don't have an answer, i'm 47 years old i still can't describe God, i believe we created God, and as humans, we need to believe in something. We need to have an answer to all the things that happen to us. Therefore God is us and our answers.
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I call God The Creator, and to me, The Creator is the small spark of energy at the base of every cell of every thing. The Creator is what breathes us and surrounds us with energy every moment of our lives. I think that's one reason why our souls want to come to Earth, because we are actually surrounded by this energy that is who we really are. Just what I believe : )
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God is a higher power then ourselves.God is the creator of all things, God is loving, kind, forgiving, gentle and compassionate
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The God as revealed in the bible. All others are poor idols at best, blasphemy at worst.
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He's like the Force.
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He's like the Force.
"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
But on a larger scale :)
God is the creator.
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" Oh son of man , nothing in the universe can contain me except for the heart of man " .-
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" Oh son of man , nothing in the universe can contain me except for the heart of man " .-
Baha'i writings
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I've posted this many times, but just can't seem to improve upon it.
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I've posted this many times, but just can't seem to improve upon it.
"God is within all things but not enclosed; outside all things, but not excluded; above all things, but not aloof; below all things, but not debased. God is he whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
--St. Bonaventure
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You might as well ask for a clear definition of someone else's consciousness....
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You might as well ask for a clear definition of someone else's consciousness....
BUT - its still a question worth asking...
One thing I am fairly certain of - is that IF...
...big IF...anything is definable as God,
then None of the versions popularised in the various child -oriented fantasy books (Qura'n, Bible, Bhagavad Gita, Baha'i scripture, Book of Morons, Planet psychoCruise, ) get any closer than Santa Claus...
and at least Santa Claus just has a "reward for being good" system and is otherwise an OK guy...(whereas all the others appear to be judgemental, mean, capricious as*holes)
so it is clear that God is most likely an impulse...
for those who are developed adults in a rational world the impulse tends towards the pantheistic idea of wonder at the entire Cosmos, for which the word God is seen as appropriate.
for those less secure or less developed people, (everyone, bar a very few, prior to 1800) who prefer the word God to contain answers to questions of life and death,
- then they tend to find one of the old fashioned religious ideas works for them
for those open to mystical experience but appalled by the chidlishness of the concrete answer brigade - (like me!) there is something about the collective human consciousness position that may actually achieve a higher level of non verbal communication within the species
...that is probably best NOT called God,
but which may be the root of why people get such intimations of something "more powerful than ourselves"...(then stop looking properly)
I see this as like an ant colony - well capable of acting as one organism, when in fact we are multiple individuals unaware of that greater reality....
we are human ants,
God is a creation of the species colony. One that may effectively exist.
or...
it may just all be bollocks.
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The Great Spirit that we call God is exalted above our ability to understand or to define.
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The Great Spirit that we call God is exalted above our ability to understand or to define.
Can a table define the carpenter? Can a painting define the artist?
As I see it, the only way to know anything about God is to study the
lives and teachings of the Manifestations of God such as Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad,
and Baha'u'llah who is the most recent Messenger of God.
To turn to the Manifestations and follow their path is to turn to God
and to follow God's path.
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I'm fairly certain it's, noun:
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I'm fairly certain it's, noun:
1. "imaginary tyrant in the sky".
2. "imaginary primordial soup taster."
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God is almost as good as tea and much better than fancy biscuits. Good tea is perfection, but you can't dunk a fancy god. The crumbs become unreasonable.
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God is almost as good as tea and much better than fancy biscuits. Good tea is perfection, but you can't dunk a fancy god. The crumbs become unreasonable.
Here is the news. There is no definition of god which does not cause a paradox (and is therefore invalidated as a reasonable definition), or which resembles the god of anyone whose god does anything, says anything, or possesses any will of the kind we do.
Despite the rumors, you will not find god in your dictionary. Or, of course, in any book.
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An entity created thousands of years ago,whose likeness,origin,and commandments are changed every few thousand years.. wwth different cultures all tending to hhave thier different version of this said entity, it is unknown truly as to the validity of its existence.
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LOL... good luck getting a consensus on that one.
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LOL... good luck getting a consensus on that one.
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain." - John Lennon
"God is a living metaphysical entity that comprises the collective force of human goodness." - Me
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Furry, four legged, very social, loyal, hunts Easter bunnies, oh, shi..., it's my dyslexia, thought you meant what is the definition of dog.
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I think we are god. Man is god himself. Not one man or one woman, and not the force of one individual. The entire collection of human potential is the essence of god. It's a divine force that we cannot comprehend.
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I think we are god. Man is god himself. Not one man or one woman, and not the force of one individual. The entire collection of human potential is the essence of god. It's a divine force that we cannot comprehend.
Interesting addition to this topic: next time you're in any situation, set yourself apart. Take two steps back and figure out how your mind is functioning, how others' minds are function, and the entire dynamic of the environment.
I've been practicing this for a couple weeks now, and it has profoundly changed the way I think and act.
"To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as we think is the most difficult of all." - some really smart dude.
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To me, God is the great and mighty unknowable essence and power of all the universes within ever expanding universes. God is the force that governs spin from the spin of the planets and stars down to the smallest spin in atoms neutrons and ions. Everything that is anything and the atoms that make up everything is part of the God Force which is as vast and large as black matter which stretches out into infinity. God is a force that cannot be understood by mere mankind --- nor womankind.
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An all-powerful, judgmental, old white man with a beard who looks down on us derisively, sentencing billions and billions that don't get baptized in Christ to eternal damnation, where they are tortured in flames for ever and ever and ever. Nice guy.
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No kidding. I just signed up today, and it seems to be at least half of the banter at this taco stand revolves around God. Maybe just it's the whole vicarious-redemption-through-human-blood-sacrifice-celebration weekend that's got everyone aflutter. I dunno. I just got here.
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