Who is God to you?

You're Jewish? Read the Torah.

 

God is life. There is no man in the clouds watching over us, or any other fairy tales. We have to create our own god, which I believe is happiness and love in and/of life and the people in the world.

 

He is known as the First Source and Center on many worlds.

 

But let me add more......this is how I think of God more specifically. Of course, each mortal has his own personal relationship.....

THE Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain." Only the concept of the Universal Father--one God in the place of many gods--enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite controller.

The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. "God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited."

The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect." In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia.

(and Urantia is another name for our planet)....these few paragraphs refer to God as a loving father but that is largely for convenience...He is at such a high spirit level that he does not really have gender as we perceive such...

 

God is man's understanding of what isn't understood. It is not God. It is the spark that is in everyone, everything and nothing. The spark is eternal. When all dies the spark carries on. The Earth understands It. Mankind has wars over It. While all around you the Earth shows It in all of It's savage beauty. When not one man or woman walks the Earth. It will be beautiful again. - Dale

 

God is the crust on my sandwiches.

 

to me god isn't a who. i mean all the names, wonderful as they are, as far as i can tell, are just combinations of noises made up by the daydreams of fellow humans.

there is something there that i feel though. big, friendly, invisible. never that i can see micromanaging, though apparently perfectly capable of doing so, were that its will. nor in any way obliged, nor, again as far as i can see likely, to resemble what anyone or any one belief, claims or imagines to know about it.

a great wonderful mystery of strangeness.
strangeness being something i can really believe in.
and god, this big, friendly, invisible something, being in the very heart of that strangeness.

and not in any sense being physically male as there's not, again, that i can see, any kind of physicalness about it. any kind of physicalness being far too limiting to encompass or even enfold, what this sense i have, of god or 'godness', having to be.

a having to be, without specifics certainly, but beyond anything physical anyway.

and all of that being one, but only one among several, for the manifestations, which i'm using to mean, those it chose, to speak to us through.

likewise that each of these, great revealers (such as christ, moses, mohammed, and the rest of them) of systems of belief as they were and are, are by no means god itself, or even more then a pale shadow of where and what god is.

 

the person who reads this is god, heh everything is god! to say that one thing is the creator of all things is silly, unless that creator is all witch just makes me write in circles so ill stop, hah

 

To me, God (or the Goddess), is an all encompassing energy that is a part of every living thing and at the same time is forever completely whole. God is limitless, forever expanding love and wisdom.

 

If there is a God, God is nature. Seems simple to me.

 

God is the name of my dick...He is no god though, could barelly perform miracles.

 

who is god to you?

 

The opiate of the masses, taking one from Karl Marx... but I have to say that I agree...

 

he is indescribable. but one thing. i think god needs us.

why else would he have gone to the trouble of MAKING.

 

Actually he said Religion is the opiate of the masses... which he was quite correct on I believe... but a simple faith in God is not exactly a religion.

 

Who is anybody really?

 

For me this is the feeling of the world being neither complete nor whole that makes God not even possible but real.

However, God evades all descriptions and that's fine by me.

 

Sometimes i think of god as a being, other times i think of god as more of an energy. Other times I dont think of god i think of the angels that surround me. A pretty vague answer but i guess it doesnt matter to me, the energy that i feel from the universe is important.

 

God is an abstract concept. One of my pet peeves in life is the blind faith skeptic. They are just as annoying to me as religious fundamentalists. They are actually both the same. If you show them something that doesn't gel with their belief system like humans existed thousands of years after the extinction of dinosaurs they will tell you that you're lying because the Bible says everything started with Adam and Eve. Or if you show them the parrallels between Eastern Religions and Sub-Atomic Physics you are "A flakey nutjob."

To me Bill Mahar is just as irritating as Rush Limbaugh because they both have made the exact same statement. "I'm not going to stop until everybody agree's with me." This is the mentality that keeps wars happening. I occasionaly agree with Bill Mahar. I also occasionally agree with Rush Limbaugh. But a broken clock is right twice a day. I have no room in my life for extremes. I have liberal friends and I have conservative friends. One of the things I find absolutely hilarious is that my concervative friends are much more tolerant and accepting of my liberal views than my liberal friends are of my concervative views. To quote Chris Rock "Nobody who is worth a fuck is completely conservative or completely liberal. Nearly everybody is conservative on some topics and liberal on others."

I half joke that the most conservative school of thought is Anarchy. Concervatives want less taxes and less government. Anarchists want no government and no taxes.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

I love this quote, not because it's true, but because it brings to my mind a paradox. When a theist is asked, "Who created God?" the answer is typically "No one, He has always existed." Well then, why can't the same answer be applied to the question, "Who created the Universe?"