Who/What is God?

[questor]

this forum has discussed much about God and religion and the Bible, but i have not seen an accurate description of God in any of the threads. in any discussion it is imperative that
participants are talking about the same thing, so would some of you offer your description of God?
1. where does he live?
2. what does he look like?
3. what are his personality traits? does he interact with people?
4. what are his powers?
5. where is Heaven?
6. does Satan exist?
7. do angels exist?
8. do you have any other important comments on God?

[UncleAl]

god = dev/nul

Hindus have 36 crores of gods - that's 360 million deities. Please furnish a list of the false ones plus your proof in each case. Cults of Yahweh are particularly egregious and lame.

[Biochemist]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

.. Cults of Yahweh are particularly egregious and lame.

Every time I see UncleAL spout like this, I remember the line form the old Blood Sweat and Tears song:

"I swear there ain't no heaven, but I pray there ain't no hell"

The evidence suggests that UA would not recognize God if He pinched UA on the butt.

But on your topic, there are a lot of VERY different representations of God just from the participants on this site. I don't expect you will get a particularly uniform answer. Many folks here believe in the God of the Bble, but there are certainly other ideas here as well.

[Hawkens]

http://www.bible.org/netbible/

A Free Online Bible so you can find out for yourself who God is.

[alexander]

Originally Posted by questor

i have not seen an accurate description of God in any of the threads.

perhaps you havent checked it out yet, but at least the last 5 pages of the "Theory of the Beginning of life and God" thread have been discussing very much that. Although that is not the main trend (and that would be me trying to show that god can not be of human nature to Tele), that very question is constantly reasked, and things like what he can be show up here and there. read through the thread, find out more

[questor]

i am familiar with the Bible and it's a wonderful book. so are the works of Dickens,but they all come from the minds of men. if God really is all powerful, ubiquitous and the creator, he does not have human form. he has to be or control all forces such as gravity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics and any other fundamental force to be discovered. he has to be older than the universe and light years in size. a force like this would not care about human beings unless we were his only experiment with life. he is physical, not emotional and wastes no time looking after earthlings.

[C1ay]

God is an invention of mankind. He is created in the image of man and endowed with all of the powers man thinks God should have. God is man's answer to the questions that man doesn't have an answer for.

[Fishteacher73]

God is a subjective and personal thing. For some it may just be a dyslexic form of dog, others a deeply held faith that god's a toaster, that there are 114 sub-dieties all concerned with hair growth, a jewish carpenter, maybe a taoist welder, whatever. It is not my god that matters, it is yours. As long as people would just keep their personal feelings out of the law books it is all good by me.

[Hawkens]

Originally Posted by questor

i am familiar with the Bible and it's a wonderful book. so are the works of Dickens,but they all come from the minds of men. if God really is all powerful, ubiquitous and the creator, he does not have human form. he has to be or control all forces such as gravity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics and any other fundamental force to be discovered. he has to be older than the universe and light years in size. a force like this would not care about human beings unless we were his only experiment with life. he is physical, not emotional and wastes no time looking after earthlings.

Then knowing the answer to your own question, why did you ask it?

The Bible is way different than Charles Dicken's works. It contains historical fact. Facts that you cannot dismiss as fiction. Even if you don't believe in God, by dismissing the Bible, you ploclaim your ignorance of history. The more I research into Evolution and Creation, the more fuel is given to my belief in God. Isn't it amazing how Civilization dawns right around the time of the flood? The Bible's accounts are the first written down accounts of man's history.

As for what God looks like.....

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Tell me this.....why does the belief in science have to exclude God?

[Hawkens]

Originally Posted by C1ay

God is man's answer to the questions that man doesn't have an answer for.

I thought that was evolution....