What is god?

Haha what is god??

God is the principal or sole deity in religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. The singular, capitalized God of monotheistic religions is commonly contrasted with the gods of polytheistic religions.

in english???
I have no idea what that all ment...

Gods are whatever you define them to be.

We ourselves are God, and nobody else.

god is what most beleive to be the creator of everything, me im aithiast so I disagree

"god" is a lot of things to different people
but in every culture where a god exists, its the highest form of life
appearently what created the whole world and everything in it
and its there so people serve it and then are "prommissed" a better way of life after they die
I think its rediculouse however...
god can also be a person or thing...depending on whos opinion your asking for
some poeple look up to an imaginary person
others look up to something completely different, even animals!

God is what made you, me, and everything that exists.

lol, stephanie was basically saying about polythesitic and stuff...

God (with a capital G) is basically the only single high power that people believe in when they believe in one high power...this is different from a polytheistic religion where they believe in many higher powers... I.e. many gods...

now I think everyone has a different view of what/who "God" or "god" is...

it depends on what you believe, personally I believe in a form of "God" just not one who controls every aspect of life...

There's the christian God, and this gets complicated when you talk about the trinity

Then the muslim Allah where there is just one God

There's Yaweh of the Jews (although he's really a Jewish God)

the Hindu's believe in multiple gods

etc etc...

Because of the what I guess id say " The Internet ". ;-)

God is a belief system, there are many different gods basically a god is someone who is highly respected, followed and who leads...a person or thing that is worshiped, and believed to have the answer to everything the ability to heal,love etc...basically a supreme being or thing...

Satanist - are there own gods
Wiccans - have god in the form of nature
Christians - have gods in the form of angels arc angels...
Catholics- the pope type of god thing...(jesus christ, mary etc)
Hindu's- have the six armed godess...

etc etc.

God is the one that always has the last say.

A lie...

A made up story.

"who is God? where is God?"

The answers to those two questions depend upon what religious faith you accept as valid -- and there are many to choose from!

in my opinion

1. God created/caused our spirits (entities) along with the universe to come into being. God established the purpose for it all but doesn't involve Its self in the continuance or activities of same.

2. "Sin" is man's concept and is utilized by men to control other men. The human caused "negative events" that take place are circumstances that are considered by us in the non-life experience between incarnations as we evaluate the successes and failures we made as we attempted to achieve our goals during our incarnations.

3. The Bible (and similar religious books) is a necessary concoction created by man to control man and his environment. It was necessary because mankind, in its infancy, did not have the medical and technological knowledge to conquer and understand its environment so had to be controlled by superstitions which were found to save lives and further the survivability of the various human societies.

Why did God make the world?

in my opinion, God diversified Itself into Its many parts and charged those parts (entities) to go forth and acquire knowledge and experience and to then return to the Oneness of God.

The entities caused the creation of the universe and everything therein and individually choose to inhabit the physical bodies.

The entities may incarnate/reincarnate many times before gravitating back into the Oneness of God.

SPECULATIONS

Speculation: 1 Is God necessary?

Yes!

There has to be a Source from which the "big bang" sprang forth Creating the universe.

Speculation: 2 What is God?

God is the ultimate Cause.

God is the Creative Entity, Energy or Force from which all is derived.

Speculation: 3 Where is God?

God is in a state of awareness that is outside the universe.

God has morphed part of Itself into those entities (spirits) that inhabit the universe and the physical bodies within.

Speculation: 4 Why is God?

God Is because God Is.

God is eternal, existing independent of time or the universe.

Speculation: 5 Is God concerned?

No!

God is not concerned with the daily functioning of the universe or matters within it. That is our domain and subject to our whim.

Speculation: 6 What are we?

We are the spirits (entities) of God.

God morphed into Us and we continue to create according to God's purpose.

Our physical bodies are simply the means we use to experience and function in the physical dimension.

Speculation: 7 Why are we?

We are for the purpose of gaining knowledge and experience.

In the end, we gravitate back into the Oneness of God allowing for the fulfillment of God.

Speculation: 8 Evolution

Evolution is simply a tool of Creation.

The entities often influence the direction of evolution along desired paths.

From my chosen path I stray,
Yet my God any'er turns away;
For I have learned -- and understand,
That where God is -- is where I am!

That is a loaded question.

God is a Trinity, a family whose life is love (authentic love). He is completely tracsendent.

He contains within his very being all truth (classically understood: existence/being/"that which is", unity, goodness, and beauty.

For further reading I suggest the "Summa Theologiea" by St. Thomas Aquinas and "The Trilogy" by Von Balthasaar. I figure the 2 of them should take you about 50 years to read. Hope to hear from you then.

I beleve that god is the creater of Heavan and Earth! I don't know what he looks like or how long he has been around and if he agsisted before Earth was created and why he created earth and I have so many other questions! One question is if Adam and Eve where the first humans on Earth than who was the first black person on Earth?

God is real thank you very much .
The Bible has NEVER been proven wrong !!!
But books like the Kuran or w/e have in some way , so have a lot of other religions .
God is real .

And --

I would rather live for God , and die and find out there is no God .

then to

not live for God , and then when I die find out there is a God and spend eternity in hell .

so .
God is real .

ok you people are using words I DONT understand...so like letmehearyouscream said...in english please!!! umm..I dont really no who god is because even tho im caltholic, ( however you spell it ) my dad has a firm belief that god isnt real..so he wont let me or my mom go 2 church..because we did before and he got all mad. I dont even no who jesus and mary r..I just hear people tlking about them...

Emily ♥

Nothing finite can be infinite (eternal). Since the universe is made of finite things (matter, time, space), it therefor must be created by something without time (timeless), thus making it eternal. If it is eternal, it must be infinite, and if its the Creator, it must be God.

The universe changes, and time is the measure of change. How many changes have happened before right now? If you claim an infinite number of changes (which is impossible because you can not have an infinite amount of finite things), it is a logically impossible to conclude we could ever have reached this moment in time. In a world of cause and effect (which we live in), there can not be an infinite regress (an infinite amount of cause and effect reactions to get to a certain cause).

Allow me to rephrase. Imagine that the Earth orbits the sun every 365 days (it does). Now, on Mars, a year is much longer than an Earth year, being 687 Earth days (basically double). So, for every 2 years of Mars, Earth has circled the sun approximately 4 times. Now, imagine that this has been going on for eternity. By your logic, they would both have circled the sun the exact same amount of times, because its been going on forever (this is clearly impossible). This shows the impossibility of an infinite regress, whereby there could not have been an infinite amount of (x) before right now, in a finite universe based on time.

Now, back to God. God exists outside of time, in Eternity. God created time, and time is irrelevant to Him. God is Eternal, not created. Firstly, you have 2 choices; either everything came from nothing (which is impossible), or something always existed and created us. You have no other choice. Take a moment to think about that, remembering that it can not exist in time, that would be impossible. Time can not be eternal.

This thing that always existed would be considered Eternal, having transcended time, space, and matter, being everlasting, having always existed. If you argue this is impossible, I would argue the contrary; it is impossible for this Eternal 'thing' to not exist, because the alternative is that nothing existed, which could only produce nothing. So, something always existed, and is therefor Eternal.

Now, for something to be Eternal, it can not consist of time, because time must have had a beginning. We exist in a universe of causality, so an infinite regress is impossible; there could not have been an infinite amount of time before right now, because we never would have reached this moment in time. That means time had a beginning, and whatever created time exists without time, beyond time, in timelessness; Eternity.

So, this Eternal Creator, created time, and the universe. This Eternal Creator clearly is extremely powerful, because the energy of the trillions of stars in the known universe were created by this Creator. And obviously, the Creator is extremely intelligent, having created an intelligent being such as mankind and a world in which to populate with it.