What is God?

[no1author]

I (Atheist) was wondering what God is for the Theists, what is their Definition of God?

[prothero]

Well there is no one definition of god for theists.
In the broadest sense some regard god as
the ground of all being
the essence of existence
the reason why the universe tends to order, complexity, life, mind and experience.
the concept in which all notions of transcendent value, ideals and purpose reside.

In the negative, the concept of god rejects
the universe as a blind, indifferent and ultimately purposeless process. IMHO

[Fido]

He is probably the same for everyone...He is everything a person is not, having everything a person needs...Don't ask my why I have never learned to suck up...

[Reconstructo]

Originally Posted by no1author

I (Atheist) was wondering what God is for the Theists, what is their Definition of God?

Well, I suppose many would call me an atheist as well. But it's not that simple. I think man creates all gods, but also that these gods are "real" to the degree that they can inspire man. God is sometimes man's dream and at other times his nightmare.

I think Plato was plugged into the god-instinct. I think religions have a common skeleton, that mirrors the structure of the human mind.

"God" is a word with so many different meanings. I doubt any two theists have the exact same concept of God. It's a word as big as the personal pronoun "I." You can stretch it like rubber.

I still have some open-mindedness about the matter, but it seems that the structure of man's world is largely imposed by man's mind. In this sense I believe in god, and that man is god. Since you were looking for theistic answers anyway....

[sometime sun]

Originally Posted by no1author

I (Atheist) was wondering what God is for the Theists, what is their Definition of God?

God is beginning, Alpha, Omega, ending.

God is launch ignition, is arrival combustion, is disintergration ash.

Zero, to Infinitum and back again.

Absolute and never a nothing.

Math, Pattern, Design, Science.

What Ever Something, Anything, Everything That Exists Is.

God is Existence.

(Life and death are only fractions of what Gods Whole Is, even if we make God whole) (God may not be reason, that might just be us)

---------- Post added 12-20-2009 at 09:14 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Fido

He is probably the same for everyone...He is everything a person is not, having everything a person needs...Don't ask my why I have never learned to suck up...

What can God possibly do for me that i cant do for myself?

(just knowing one is not alone is enough for any God to acomplish)
(If he doesn't have your love he dosen't have everything.)

[Reconstructo]

God is a nine-dimensional alien from Saturn. His ninth son Umo is currently my tooter!

[sometime sun]

Originally Posted by Reconstructo

God is a nine-dimensional alien from Saturn. His ninth son Umo is currently my tooter!

Amongst other things

[Reconstructo]

God is the Greatest Story Forever Told!!! Man's Dream of the Ideal is God. Maybe he calls it Life, or Power, or Love, or Peace, or Intensity, or Creativity, or Honor, or something something something. Something to "try to be." Umo then jokes: but how many people try to be people that don't try to be anyone? Is that Jesus in a cancer-sign formation with his reflection? Take up your crabs and follow me. (69)
Or the cross. Or the TOTALITY or the ABSOLUTE. or the nothing behind it all. Or the light that discloses beings, itself the uncreated Being....

[sometime sun]

Originally Posted by Reconstructo

God is the Greatest Story Forever Told!!! Man's Dream of the Ideal is God. Maybe he calls it Life, or Power, or Love, or Peace, or Intensity, or Creativity, or Honor, or something something something. Something to "try to be." Umo then jokes: but how many people try to be people that don't try to be anyone? Is that Jesus in a cancer-sign formation with his reflection? Take up your crabs and follow me. (69)
Or the cross. Or the TOTALITY or the ABSOLUTE. or the nothing behind it all. Or the light that discloses beings, itself the uncreated Being....

I all of a sudden cant tell if you are being unfortunate.
God is never something 'Told'. Found and heard perhaps.

God is a capital letter that shows personal respect, the ability to have it and to give it.
Doesn't ever mean you get it back.

(I'm going to bed, i may have reconsidered this tomorrow. smiley face means to be light, means to be jovial and impress humour where there may even be conflict.)

'itself the uncreated Being' very good indeed. 'Your're getting there!'

[Reconstructo]

Originally Posted by sometime sun

I all of a sudden cant tell if you are being unfortunate.
God is never something 'Told'. Found and heard perhaps.

Is God a child rolling dice? I got this friend, a turquoise dwarf who hails from Neptune. Feeds me lines like this on the matter in hand: "The sigh objects throughout the scotch nonsense. Below each road punts the quota. How can a nested devil laugh against the intercourse?"