Your Definition of God

[Justin Case]

Originally Posted by Kalikdania

I'd love to hear everyone's definitions of God.

An analysis of religious history poses a problem. Monotheism never existed until the mid-1300s BC via Akhenaton in Egypt. He said "God" was the sun, and the people didn't like it ... before that it was always some version of polytheism.

From Egypt it traveled over to the Zoroastrian religion, and from there to the Semitic culture during the Exile. From that point it traveled outward and down the road to us today.

[keiw1]

Originally Posted by Kalikdania

I'd love to hear everyone's definitions of God. If it applies to your beliefs, can you try and explain what "he" looks like, if he has human needs like eating and sleeping, where he lives exactly and what his purpose is in relation to keeping humanity in-check. Thanks everyone!

Both Jesus and Paul teach all who the true God is= the Father alone-John 4:22-24, 1Corinthians 8:5-6-- God is a spirit. No one knows what he looks like. He lives in heaven.

[ThatMan]

Originally Posted by keiw1

Both Jesus and Paul teach all who the true God is= the Father alone-John 4:22-24, 1Corinthians 8:5-6-- God is a spirit. No one knows what he looks like. He lives in heaven.

Which Heaven, there are many? I know that even the highest Heaven can not contain God so how can God live in heaven? You can start using your own power of understanding to seek more of God than to believe without questioning what others say for what you say it is not biblical but merely an opinion.

I remember one verse that says Jesus ascended higher than all the heavens, so according to your own words, Jesus reached a place even higher than the place where God resides, but that does not make Jesus one with God?

The heavens are spiritual, right, we have the material world, the spiritual world and what is higher than this? In my opininion, the everythingness of all things be it material or spiritual, it even says, in order to fill all things, but what does this even mean? The Mind of Christ filling all human beings and not only, which means reaching maybe the highest consciousness that there is, apart from God, where one maintains his/her individuality while being one with God.

[Nowayout]

We have books telling us what/who God is.
We have inspirations and we may have a personal rudimentary understanding of what God is. Like Love and divine Justice, I would say.
And then there is God in truth, way out there. What are we but perhaps instruments of God's Light?
The deeper we go into our hearts/God the more fantastic God is. I am nothing but yet God loves me, how great is that! As I see it...

God is simply reality.

[PororoWanderer]

When I was a child I alwalys dream the journey of Jesus. When he ascended we came in place surrounded by sunset colors, I try to touch the wall because it is seethrough, I thought that my hand will go through but it didnt. All the things are sunset colored energies. Then we go to a dining room, we saw God there sitting. When I see him I said that he was supposed to be older because he was the father of Jesus(I was tactless child). Then God turn into a older man, then into a sunlike appearance. Even the food are energy. God's voice is monotone(sorry that was it sound like).

[keiw1]

[quote=ThatMan]Which Heaven, there are many? I know that even the highest Heaven can not contain God so how can God live in heaven? You can start using your own power of understanding to seek more of God than to believe without questioning what others say for what you say it is not biblical but merely an opinion

In the beginning God created the heavens and earth--See heavens.
1) our atmosphere.
2) outer space
3 Gods dwelling place.
Elijah was brought through our atmosphere( referred to as heaven) in the chariot event and retired as prophet, Elisha took over.. 10 years later Elijah wrote a letter to the king-2Chronicles 21:12-15

[ThatMan]

@keiw1 Except that I do not talk about the sky but about spiritual heavens, Paul visited the third one, in Judaism there's a belief that there are 7 heavens. I suspect that there are at least three. God is in the highest and also everywhere but this is my understanding, Jesus went even beyond the highest heaven, quite amazing!!

What works for me, is adding another O to God and we get GOOD.

[Maisy]

Originally Posted by PureEvil760

God is simply reality.

I think along those lines. God is everything. We are in God and of God.