Characteristics of God? What do you see GOD as?

I'm doing something up. I want to know how people think god is, what they visualize god as, what do they think god is. I mean from all religions. What signs represent god.

 

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What I should believe: God, as Christ, is present even in the darkest places. Since God was present on the Cross, God is found even where people feel abandoned by God, (especially there.)




What I feel like God is right now: unattainable. So I guess I'm right where I should be as a Christian.



eh. who knows? not me.

 

I have no religion; I am agnostic.

To me, God is a human-made concept. God can be visualized as electrical pulses travelling through the brain which cause illusions. Delusion is a sign that represents God.

 

There are no words.

 

GOD...it`s inside us and all around us.I mean...(it`s so fuckin hard to explain` something like this,when u`r not so good with english )I dont have only one religion,maybe it souds stupid,but i`m trying to take a knowledge from every religion and God!And i think that every religion in the world is saying the totally same things,but in diffrent way (u undurstand what i mean lol) and God is every pleasent feeling,and not only pleasent....but the important thing is to see and feel the beautiful in the ugly.

 

GOD is DOG spelled backwards.

What do you think of THAT smart guys... uh, and girls? Smart girls. Hmmm that would be a good title for a movie.

Yeah, so God, and Dog. Hmm? Hmmmmmm?

 

I would definitely go to see the movie!I`m a dog lover!

 

im with you there greengirl. God is everything and transcends everything. the Gods from different religions are the same one God, just different persceptions of Him (or It?) God is too big for just one relgion.

 

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everything that is

 

as a positive state of mind.

 

i see god as something no one knows anything about other then that it wishes us no harm. it is a presence that can sometimes be felt, even in a sense at times communed with, though i've only felt this when alone with it out in the woods, never in any sort of church or temple, although other kinds of spiritedness can sometimes be felt there, and in a synagog or at a native american big time, a sense of connectedness with generations past and future.

i mean people invent a word for something and think because they did they know something about it. i think people doing this delude themselves.

and all those books, bibles, korans, gitas and appanishads, vedic verses and so forth, people set down the words in them, wherever they may have gotten them from

as for preisthoods, we KNOW those are human institutions. ritual isn't neccessarily a bad thing either. it's just none of these things have that much to do with what fills the space between the stars and the trees and within our true selves

you know i do think lao tsu got it right when he said the god you think you know is not the god that is

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God is ONE CONSCIOUSNESS that is all form in time and space, and all that is beyond time and space... it is all without seperation... there is no seperation or duality... there is only ONENESS. That is what I sometimes call God. It is supremely intelligent, it is the creator and the creation, it has a trasendant aspect of infinite power, unbearable compassion and a cosmic sense of humor, yet it is also lost in its own dream in a multitude of form...

I live as a beginner in being AWARE of this one consciousness, in the HERE and NOW. I see myself everywhere...


Besides my mystical experiences of it, and my beginner awareness of it which is living in the mystical state... quantum mechanics proves there is only one consciousness, and unites all the religions under a supreme truth... and gives scientific validity more so then ever before to mystical experience.

To the point where GOD is simply a proven fact. Like gravity, ain't no more denyin.

 

God transcends all definitions of God, so, God cannot be defined.

However, just as an astronomer may point at the stars without leaving the earth . . .

God is the existence of existence. God is the context, within which, time exists. God is the context within which space, the universe, reality, life, consciousness, love, creativity, truth, exists. God is the unity of being at the center of reality, life, consciousness, love, creativity, truth and all that exists. God is the inherent interrelatedness of all things. God is the unified field, the great ground of being, the primal essence that expresses itself as everything.

God inhales transcendence, God exhales new meaning.

And if God is just a thought in the mind of man (as those who refuse to consider the possibilities are prone to say), it is this thought that makes all the difference between a cave and a cathedral, between battling fear and bathing in bliss, it is this single, luminous, clarifying thought that makes all the difference between expiration and inspiration.

What do you think?

Peace and Love

 

I think that what you said, right there, IS a definition.

 

Yes. I could be wrong, but I think my contradictions agree, somehow.

One good analogy is that of the Pacific Ocean. No human could definitively experience the Pacific Ocean, in its entirety, all at once. One cannot see the whole surface of the Ocean (unless one views it from space and, of course, in doing so, one is by definition far removed from its depths). One cannot simultaneously feel its warmth at the equator and its cold near the poles. One could make it one's home for the rest of one's life and still not know it in its entirety.

One could know it intimately by diving in and tasting its saltiness. But even if you could apply words to your understanding of how unfathomably big, and full of life, and salty, and deep, and ancient, and so on, and so on, and so on . . . you still would not capture the meaning of all that it is with one definition.

Now, consider this. The Pacific Ocean is one finite body of water on a small planet orbiting one of a hundred billion stars in one of a hundred billion galaxies, all of which exist according to the exact same laws of physics and existence, and occupies the exact same percentage of infinity as you and I . . .

. . . and God transcends even this.

Peace and Love

 

If such a critter exists, God has as many faces as there are people. 'The eye with which we see God is the same eye with which God sees us.' Meister Eickert, I think.
Monty Python, from a prayer in the movie 'The Meaning of Life.', "Oh God you are so big. So absolutely huge. We are all really impressed down here, I can tell you."

 

Varuna: What do you think of:
Some believe that God is the thing that holds (and therefore is) the whole, it makes every tomorrow possible, it also makes science possible, you can rely on the past experiences to try new experiences in the manifested whole. You can put fire under a saucepan full of water and know, or expect it will boil. It brings something continuous.
Is it a bit where you were putting "it"?

 

Dear Spiritforces,

Yes. I like the idea that "God is the thing that holds (and therefore is) the whole." I think you are on to something with this idea.

I have to tell you about a recent experience that I think relates to all of this.

I am taking this class at the neighborhood Chabad called "the Kaballah of Time." It is a deeply philosophical exploration of the reality of time as seen from the inherently theological perspective of Jewish Mysticism. In the first class, we discussed the idea that reality, the zeitgeist (the spirit of the times), and time itself, are all expressions of God. What a wonderful thought, what wonderful implications. I drove home after class fully aware that I was experiencing an altered reality.

So, one night this past weekend, I was outside looking at the rising full moon, when this idea (reality, the spirit, and time itself, are all expressions of God) came to mind. It drew everything within my immediate experience into focus, into some kind of inexplicable but obvious unity (which just smiled at doubt). Maybe it was because the evening was calm enough to allow my attention to let go, to be free of any one specific point of focus, to just be conscious, but everything, every sight, of stars, trees and city lights, as well as every sound, every smell, even the temperature of the air, contributed to this experience of perfectly unified reality.

Then I realized a very subtle, maybe even a sublime, shift of perspective that is very easily missed in times of distraction, but it is as deeply profound and reorienting as anything I have ever experienced. To present it as an idea - If I am able to recognize this unity, this intuitively grasped, transcendent consciousness of the moment, as the effect of a single, harmonized reality, then I could also, just as easily, reverse the order of the relationship and recognize this unity as the CAUSE of this reality.

It is precisely this kind of experience, with its awe, wonder, mystery, truth, consciousness, love, wisdom, and all, that is the inspiration referred to by mystics as God.

And yes, God transcends even this.

Peace and Love