There are and have been many religions in the world, most with a notion of god
or gods, with some variation. If you want to discuss the notion of a god or
gods, you first have to define it.
When you use the word 'god', what do you mean by it?
The Revelation of
Saint John the Devine 8:1 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty."
OK, the way I see it, a god is basically an anthropomorphisation of anything
sufficiently big, important and fundamental.
The idea of course being that humans, whose brains were basically developed to
complexity by the need to deal with social situations, naturally ascribe human
qualities to things when they are trying to understand them, so they can apply
their brains to the things that they're designed for complex work on.
Unlike some of the definitions that tend to get offered up, this works for more
or less any god. Examples:
God as the creator? Well, the universe exists, so unless you propose some sort
of infinite steady-state timeline, at some point it started to exist where
before it hadn't. (If time can be used in that way, the notion that time is a
slightly local property is pretty recent.) So if you anthropomorphise the
process by which it happened, you get a creator god.
God as in Athena, guardian of Athens? You want your city to be all nice and
propperous and protected and such, once you anthropomorphise that process, you
have a god. (Or goddess, it might have been, I can't remember.)
But the point is, it's not a "thing". It's a way of thought. For any force in the universe, it doesn't matter
how it actually works, you can think about it as you would a human, or you can
think about it in some other way. If you do the former, it's a god. If you do
the latter, it's not a god.
A being of a greater power than the one whom it refers to as it's subje ct
(humans) ussaly thought to be all powerful or at least close enough no one see's
the slight gap alot of people also refer to their creator EX. I AM (sorry can't
rember the real thing jsut the translation) created Adam from dust and Eve from
his rib or something like that but when used as in the context of the U.S.A.
national moto
In GOD we trust... god would me
your god if you belive in bhuda or Ali or even bob then that's your god
God is defined to be whatever it needs to be defined to be, for the purpose of
it being defined to be what it needs to be, in order to define it to whatever
meaning it is suppose to mean.
In otherwords, it is defined as "the term" is the "undefinable
term"
since almost no two people is ever gonna fully agree what it is defined as, it
is useless as far as language goes.
God is a thought that supports our daily existence into life, so that we do not
seem to lose our way of morality and stability.
and God is the faith from which we inject into to satisfy our curiousity for the
things we do not and cannot explain with our fragile heads.
Quote by beethovenEX. I AM (sorry can't
rember the real thing jsut the translation) created Adam from dust and Eve from
his rib or something like that
You mean Yahweh (YHVH, YHWH, sometimes Jehovah).
Uh, no. The actual Hebrew is E'he'yeh - the I AM bit. Deuteronomy isn't it? The
bit with the burning bush? Derived from the verb HYH meaning "to be".
Etymological studies have found, though not widely accepted, a link between the
verb HYH and the name YHVH. The Y (jod) and V (waw) in Hebrew script has been
confused and the fact that the Y may lengthen to a V with the same pronunciation
doesn't help.
Literaly "I am what I am" - E'he'ye asher e'he'ye. "Tell them I
am (E'he'ye) send you..."
Then again, another Hebrew (or Aramaic?) name of God, Yah, may be drived from
YHVH, or KhYH meaning "life" - wich in fact is what Eve's name means.
In the Hebrew she's called KhVH. Adam is merely earth or ground or man (not a
single man, but as in mankind).
i agree with devil dude. god was made by humans so that we would have a consious
and have a better understanding of right and wrong. Also god was made to give
people hope. for example, when you die. we all want to think that all the good
we done would be rewarded in some way so we believe that when we die we would go
to a place that would be beauitful and perfect or be recarnated into something
better or something like that. although if you only said to people the truth
which is when someone dies their gone. they don't want to believe it. why? i
think it's becuz they wanna still have some hope that they will see their lost
one day again. God was mainly the first rules or laws we had. if they weren't
obey we would be down with the devil if they were they would be sent up to
heaven. god was suppose to explain things and doings that we do not understand
and it was our explanation to make us satified. this is what i think of god. Plz
don't be offended in what i sayyyyyy.....
Quote by marmaladeboyfani agree
with devil dude. god was made by humans so that we would have a consious and
have a better understanding of right and wrong. Also god was made to give people
hope. for example, when you die. we all want to think that all the good we done
would be rewarded in some way so we believe that when we die we would go to a
place that would be beauitful and perfect or be recarnated into something better
or something like that. although if you only said to people the truth which is
when someone dies their gone. they don't want to believe it. why? i think it's
becuz they wanna still have some hope that they will see their lost one day
again. God was mainly the first rules or laws we had. if they weren't obey we
would be down with the devil if they were they would be sent up to heaven. god
was suppose to explain things and doings that we do not understand and it was
our explanation to make us satified. this is what i think of god. Plz don't be
offended in what i sayyyyyy.....
I'd just say...God is the "person" that is just the greatest and best
at everything ....thus the term Godly and Godlike in games.....because they are
the best in the game... :p
Zeus, Thor, etc. are also gods. They are not love. We aren't talking about
Jealous (the name of the Christian god), we are talking about the word
"god."
Devildude shurely defined something interesting.. Still, I have mine:
God is the entity that possesses will, can NEVER be comprehenced by the means of
human race, and has some superior power over that thing we call universe.
God is a crude, early, and primitive human attempt to expain and rationalize
seemingly irrational things such as diseases, famines, droughts, the sun and
moon, and perhaps most importantly where we go after dying. God is basically
human fear of the unknown.
We were afraid because we didn't understand it. How can you reason with the rain
to fall? How can you tell the sun to shine? Human minds weren't capable of
seeing the real causes. Their complexity was in understanding their relationship
to other humans in the group. They were geniuses in the social aspect. So they
made the rain a "person." A person can be reasoned with. Their
services can be negotiated on. So how would you get Rain to fall? By
complimenting him and giving gifts. By worshipping him.
So humans prayed to their silent gods. However, the benifit from this would be
you have no fear of death. If there is an invisible world of gods who is to say
you can't live on invisibly as well? You'd believe that the gods would see to
your eventual afterlife and make it pleasant. After this takeover would be
simple. The religious would fight the godless and they would always win. Why?
Because if you have no fear of death you would keep fighting to the end for your
"gods" instead of running away to recover. The godless would be
terrified of these seemingly insane people who continue to fight even after
losing an arm or be bleeding from a gaping wound. Surely they became the first
demons. Slowely minds who are less likely to believe and have faith would be
bred out. It was a simple matter of genetics.
Now humans are more aware and rational. However, there's still that bestial side
of humans just in another form. Why do you think sex, drugs, and violence are so
popular and prevalent in movies? Humans can rationalize and understand the rain
but what they can't understand they look to God.
There are and have been many religions in the world, most with a notion of god or gods, with some variation. If you want to discuss the notion of a god or gods, you first have to define it.
When you use the word 'god', what do you mean by it?
A conciousness/power that started/created the universe. You can go into a lot of directions with this I guess...
i dont use it much so i guess when i do use it, i mean a all powerfull person, with infintent wisdom
beside the obvious slanting of names like OMG....i don't really have a definition
except....
maybe this will do:
a non-relative superior imaginative being conjured by weak humans to define their mundane existence?
kinda morbid i know, but if you don't believe there is just an illusion that you create.
God Is The Creator Who Wasn't Created
The Revelation of Saint John the Devine 8:1 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."
I agree with devildude, was gonna say somethin like that, less mean n what not but yea
OK, the way I see it, a god is basically an anthropomorphisation of anything sufficiently big, important and fundamental.
The idea of course being that humans, whose brains were basically developed to complexity by the need to deal with social situations, naturally ascribe human qualities to things when they are trying to understand them, so they can apply their brains to the things that they're designed for complex work on.
Unlike some of the definitions that tend to get offered up, this works for more or less any god. Examples:
God as the creator? Well, the universe exists, so unless you propose some sort of infinite steady-state timeline, at some point it started to exist where before it hadn't. (If time can be used in that way, the notion that time is a slightly local property is pretty recent.) So if you anthropomorphise the process by which it happened, you get a creator god.
God as in Athena, guardian of Athens? You want your city to be all nice and propperous and protected and such, once you anthropomorphise that process, you have a god. (Or goddess, it might have been, I can't remember.)
But the point is, it's not a "thing". It's a way of thought. For any force in the universe, it doesn't matter how it actually works, you can think about it as you would a human, or you can think about it in some other way. If you do the former, it's a god. If you do the latter, it's not a god.
A being of a greater power than the one whom it refers to as it's subje ct (humans) ussaly thought to be all powerful or at least close enough no one see's the slight gap alot of people also refer to their creator EX. I AM (sorry can't rember the real thing jsut the translation) created Adam from dust and Eve from his rib or something like that but when used as in the context of the U.S.A. national moto
In GOD we trust... god would me your god if you belive in bhuda or Ali or even bob then that's your god
God is defined to be whatever it needs to be defined to be, for the purpose of it being defined to be what it needs to be, in order to define it to whatever meaning it is suppose to mean.
In otherwords, it is defined as "the term" is the "undefinable term"
since almost no two people is ever gonna fully agree what it is defined as, it is useless as far as language goes.
God is a thought that supports our daily existence into life, so that we do not seem to lose our way of morality and stability.
and God is the faith from which we inject into to satisfy our curiousity for the things we do not and cannot explain with our fragile heads.
You mean Yahweh (YHVH, YHWH, sometimes Jehovah).
I agree with Devildude's definition of god.
Uh, no. The actual Hebrew is E'he'yeh - the I AM bit. Deuteronomy isn't it? The bit with the burning bush? Derived from the verb HYH meaning "to be". Etymological studies have found, though not widely accepted, a link between the verb HYH and the name YHVH. The Y (jod) and V (waw) in Hebrew script has been confused and the fact that the Y may lengthen to a V with the same pronunciation doesn't help.
Literaly "I am what I am" - E'he'ye asher e'he'ye. "Tell them I am (E'he'ye) send you..."
Then again, another Hebrew (or Aramaic?) name of God, Yah, may be drived from YHVH, or KhYH meaning "life" - wich in fact is what Eve's name means. In the Hebrew she's called KhVH. Adam is merely earth or ground or man (not a single man, but as in mankind).
i agree with devil dude. god was made by humans so that we would have a consious and have a better understanding of right and wrong. Also god was made to give people hope. for example, when you die. we all want to think that all the good we done would be rewarded in some way so we believe that when we die we would go to a place that would be beauitful and perfect or be recarnated into something better or something like that. although if you only said to people the truth which is when someone dies their gone. they don't want to believe it. why? i think it's becuz they wanna still have some hope that they will see their lost one day again. God was mainly the first rules or laws we had. if they weren't obey we would be down with the devil if they were they would be sent up to heaven. god was suppose to explain things and doings that we do not understand and it was our explanation to make us satified. this is what i think of god. Plz don't be offended in what i sayyyyyy.....
I define a god as a being that is worshipped by people as a powerful and supernatural entity.
..love?..duh..
you took the words rite outa my mouth!
I'd just say...God is the "person" that is just the greatest and best at everything ....thus the term Godly and Godlike in games.....because they are the best in the game... :p
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the definition of god: superior, powerful being..
but there is no god.. god is just an image that we perdicted.. like how we perdicted the future..
not to be mean to those that believe in god..
#define GOD
Zeus, Thor, etc. are also gods. They are not love. We aren't talking about Jealous (the name of the Christian god), we are talking about the word "god."
Devildude shurely defined something interesting.. Still, I have mine:
God is the entity that possesses will, can NEVER be comprehenced by the means of human race, and has some superior power over that thing we call universe.
God is a crude, early, and primitive human attempt to expain and rationalize seemingly irrational things such as diseases, famines, droughts, the sun and moon, and perhaps most importantly where we go after dying. God is basically human fear of the unknown.
We were afraid because we didn't understand it. How can you reason with the rain to fall? How can you tell the sun to shine? Human minds weren't capable of seeing the real causes. Their complexity was in understanding their relationship to other humans in the group. They were geniuses in the social aspect. So they made the rain a "person." A person can be reasoned with. Their services can be negotiated on. So how would you get Rain to fall? By complimenting him and giving gifts. By worshipping him.
So humans prayed to their silent gods. However, the benifit from this would be you have no fear of death. If there is an invisible world of gods who is to say you can't live on invisibly as well? You'd believe that the gods would see to your eventual afterlife and make it pleasant. After this takeover would be simple. The religious would fight the godless and they would always win. Why? Because if you have no fear of death you would keep fighting to the end for your "gods" instead of running away to recover. The godless would be terrified of these seemingly insane people who continue to fight even after losing an arm or be bleeding from a gaping wound. Surely they became the first demons. Slowely minds who are less likely to believe and have faith would be bred out. It was a simple matter of genetics.
Now humans are more aware and rational. However, there's still that bestial side of humans just in another form. Why do you think sex, drugs, and violence are so popular and prevalent in movies? Humans can rationalize and understand the rain but what they can't understand they look to God.
And that's my two yen.
i agree with hamed."God Is The Creator Who Wasn't Created"n god doesnt have child and not be childed. there's only one god