Defining God: Discussing the nature and attributes of God

Hey man, I dont really expect to change yours or anybodies mind. I believe that there is sufficient evidence however for me to draw some logical conclussions. Now I'm also aware that two people can look at the same thing and get different conclusion but for me, it is as I said. Im willing to be objective on all this but that is so long as the other possibilities are logical. If I dont feel they are, I will not entertain the ideas. To each his/her own.

True, true, I know you didn't expect to change my opinion. Sorry if I came across that way, wasn't ment to.

This is one of the better discussions I had about wether or not god exists tho.

What do you define as a 'God'
What is your own definition of a 'God'

This is not asking what that god is like, but it's asking how do YOU define a 'God'

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god: being/beings that have supernatural powers and are set to rule life on earth, tyrants that shall be worshiped by humans.

That is a hard question.I guess that you have that feeling that god is wijth you and watching you at all times.And it is like the sences we have of hearing seeing and touching.
It is just there for me somehow.JM

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
That is a hard question.I guess that you have that feeling that god is wijth you and watching you at all times.

So if you were being stalked, you would classify your stalker as god??
This isnt about what you feel a god would do, but how you define them.

This is mine:

God: The Father and the son and spirit as ONE. Originally God created the universe to observe the magnitute of his/her powers. We are nothing but guinea pigs for an experiment. Our suffering and happiness are meaningless to God. All we are are nothing but organic meatbags with the only purpose to serve as an experiment. Whether you worship God or don't belive in God it doesn't matter. You're just an experiment....nothing more.

Define God: full of mercy, grace, love, forgiving, full of kindness, gentleness, slow to anger. Always there, no matter the time of day or nite, he doesn't put you on hold, or say we'll talk later, HE'S there. the more you are around him, the closer you can feel him. If you run to him, he'll run to you. He's a friend, that we all want in life.

Originally posted by Fiery Eyes
Define God: full of mercy, grace, love, forgiving, full of kindness, gentleness, slow to anger. Always there, no matter the time of day or nite, he doesn't put you on hold, or say we'll talk later, HE'S there. the more you are around him, the closer you can feel him. If you run to him, he'll run to you. He's a friend, that we all want in life.

The term “God” may not carry the same meaning to all of those engaged in a debate about the existence of God. What exactly are we talking about when we use the term “God”? There are some common attributes which are often discussed: God is perfect and worthy of worship, God and gender, God is creator and sustainer of existence, God is omnipotent, God is omnibenevolent, God is omniscient, ...

I' d like to start off with 'God is perfect and worthy of worship'.
The concepts of worship and perfection are intertwined, each feeding off of the other and each influencing how the other is understood. Gods have been the objects of worship for as far back as our record of gods goes. Worship involves total and absolute devotion. But what sort of god merits such devotion?
The principle of perfection has been emphasized, at least in part, to answer that question.

God, to be worthy of worship, has to be the greatest possible being on absolutely every possible level, nothing greater can possibly exist. God is an absolutely perfect being.

God is a being greater than which no being can be conceived (even by God).
- Anselm -

All of the other attributes of God ultimately tie into this one, God’ s perfection is so absolute that there is nothing more powerful, more loving, more knowledgeable, etc.

The idea that God is absolutely perfect was partly derived from the premise that God is worthy of worship, but now the idea that God is worthy of worship is based upon the premise that God is absolutely perfect.

The problem with defining God, particularly if referring to the reasoning of Anselm, is that the arguments used are so often circular. People continually attempt to prove his existence by claiming that as God is a conceivable being, with the concept of him being so infinitely great, that this implies he must exist. I find it a flawed argument as it assumes that anything conceivable has potential to exist.

*wonders if that made sense*

I can't even conceive of God. He is all the wonderful things like love, But I can't help that if I met Him I would feel terror! Good thing He loves me.

discuss here:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f80/t322850.html

God can be very simply defined: The highest form of being, in the sense that it includes all conditions of existence in its comprise and steering all processes within existence via omnipotent intelligence.

God is unfathomable. Boy that's a big word in the morning. But I think for some reason He cares about us. Love? of course. God is also your worst nightmare.

Well, FUUUCK god if he doesn't care about us - I know he doesn't even exist - he told me so himself!

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^ ha ha, OK then. God is unfathomable and could be your worst nightmare. And I'm glad it/he loves me. 😛

Is the fact that it loves you actually proof that it is unfathomable?

How can a loving god be one's worst nightmare? If god is to be love at all, then he must be unconditional love, thus it would be an act of hate to send a creature he created himself to hell.