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billcu1
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Is god pure intelligence will, mind, feeling or what? Does he have a soul and if so anything like ours? Any philosophers welcome or course from the church would be good but I’m willing to seek all for this answer.
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Fisha
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Do you mean “god” or “God”.
Jesus is God.
Lord of Life.
Lord of Love.
Creator of All.
The beginning and the end.
God is in you. That’s why we love ourselves because God lives in us all.
Try the Hindu meaning of God. The Hindus do a great job in explaining what God is.
Keep seeking!
May God keep you and Bless you.
Jesus is God.
Lord of Life.
Lord of Love.
Creator of All.
The beginning and the end.
God is in you. That’s why we love ourselves because God lives in us all.
Try the Hindu meaning of God. The Hindus do a great job in explaining what God is.
Keep seeking!
May God keep you and Bless you.
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Charlemagne_II
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What is God?
Only God knows!
Only God knows!
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marcaevans
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God is the supreme spirit, who alone exists of himself, and is infinite in all perfections.
God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is.
God is truth, God is love, God is light.
God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is.
God is truth, God is love, God is light.
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graciesings
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The Bible says “God is love” and also that he is “the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.”
That’s all I can think of off the top. But keep in mind that God is a lot greater than we human’s are, and we can’t really understand Him, or explain Him. In fact there’s a legend about this. traditioninaction.org/religious/h065rp.Shell.html
God bless you
Grace
That’s all I can think of off the top. But keep in mind that God is a lot greater than we human’s are, and we can’t really understand Him, or explain Him. In fact there’s a legend about this. traditioninaction.org/religious/h065rp.Shell.html
God bless you
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billcu1
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I have read in Jewish mysticism and others. That the is a dormancy period of some kind where god sleeps and creation is naught. Then when he awakes he thinks “Where is everyone” And what was there comes back and begins on the next creation. Well sounds good to me.
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marcaevans
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Awesome, that is out of the Catechism by the way.
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tabycat
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What is God?
Only God knows!/QUOTE
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R_C
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:doh2:
I’d add: God is
And as for philosophers, someone may want to check out the first book of Summa contra Gentiles by s. Thomas Aquinas
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Foofaraw
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Pure intelligence is a good start. My favorite complete concept is that God is a consortium of beings that were brought into existence as the result of a cosmic sideswipe between spaces with opposite properties, long before the universe came into existence.
None of these entities were initially conscious. “God” consists of a group (at least two) of them which together derived consciousness without outside assistance, after which, over time, they developed very high intelligence, probably originally in the form of mathematical understanding.
Thus this God concept is plural, exactly as was the God of the Old Testament. (Elohim is a plural word.)
God are (sounds strange, doesn’t it?) physical (not material) and capable of interacting with the universe they created via an ability to contravene the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, temporarily of course. God does not have souls— they are what you would call souls and which the philosopher Descartes called mind.
God are limited by logic and by the laws of physics, even to a large extent by the time-dependent laws that they created.
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Aelred_Minor
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God is pure Act. Pure Being. He is entirely simple and immutable, not subject to change and not divisible in any way, not even philosophically divisible into distinctions like essence vs. existence. He is thus the one being that is not contingent upon any other thing to exist, but exists of Himself. Every other thing is given its existence by Him.
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shoe
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The primary definition of “God” from Merriam-Webster is, “the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe.” And the Bible says that God is not a “what” but a “who”; that He is self-existent (which is to say that God has no origins and that His existence doesn’t depend on anyone or anything); that He created and sustains the universe; and that He is the standard by which we measure everything else.
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billcu1
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Correct. Eloha is the singular. I’ve never quite heard it put the way you have does this come from kabbala? If that’s welcome here I definately welcome it! Rene Descartes was one of the greats!
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billcu1
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I thought God(s) was outside of time ? When we go to mass we are taken outside of time and to the cross as I believe all events are happening or are outside of time I am not sure which.
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Church_Slayer
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Greetings to you my friend,
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Human can't determine the components of God, since God is beyond our knowledge.But we can understand what God is not. God is a pure clean without any stain of evilness, Just imagine the thought that God is the source of everything and everyone. If we are too amaze of what we can see as beautiful, how come God's image? Indeed the word beautiful is not enough to do for him. There are some articles that I've read a long time ago saying that God was possibly an alien like with super powers that lives outside of this planet earth and he live in another planet. lol Sounds fictitious but believe me our teacher told that story too and I'm quite shock that he is serious on that.-je
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billcu1
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I think it might depend on what you mean by god when you say a alien race. Zachariah Sitchin has some good writings on that but as we are speaking about god, a one indivisable “thing” if “thingness” applies to god and I don’t think it does. The first mover I guess it is beyond our conception. Now wether some “prehistoric” version of us was here and aliens “creators” came and mixed themselves with “prehistorics” to get us. Thats plausible to me but another story.Greetings to you my friend,
Someday we can possibly see him personally and your question will be answered completely there in heavenCode:Human can't determine the components of God, since God is beyond our knowledge.But we can understand what God is not. God is a pure clean without any stain of evilness, Just imagine the thought that God is the source of everything and everyone. If we are too amaze of what we can see as beautiful, how come God's image? Indeed the word beautiful is not enough to do for him. There are some articles that I've read a long time ago saying that God was possibly an alien like with super powers that lives outside of this planet earth and he live in another planet. lol Sounds fictitious but believe me our teacher told that story too and I'm quite shock that he is serious on that.
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kingpomba
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If he exists, the classical view is that he’s a totally different substance from us, so, we can’t really say much at all.
Some people think we can assign properties to him and he actually has those properties as we understand them (All powerful, all knowing, etc).
Particularly in some strands of Jewish thought, some think we can only talk of what God is in negative terms (God is not a chair, God is not wholly evil, etc).
Others yet again think we can’t say anything that actually corresponds to God’s true nature. Kant made this distinction. We can never see or understand things as they actually are. For example, a colour-blind friend and I are looking at the very same painting and yet we see very different things. Our knowledge and reality of the painting is coloured by our senses, thinking and interpretation, it is not how the painting actually is. So, the distinction is between things as we perceive them (phenomena) and things as they actually are (noumena). We can apply this to God as well.
Finally, some people think there is a problem with assigning properties to God. It’s more of a medieval/scholastic idea though. If something has constituent parts or properties, that thing is dependent on its parts or properties, moreso, it is dependent on them to be what it is. If God has the property of perfection, God is dependent on perfection to be God. This clashed with their view of God as an absolutely independent being. This has several side-effects as well though, some can be quite unpleasant which is why i suspect it isn’t a popular idea anymore.
Some people think we can assign properties to him and he actually has those properties as we understand them (All powerful, all knowing, etc).
Particularly in some strands of Jewish thought, some think we can only talk of what God is in negative terms (God is not a chair, God is not wholly evil, etc).
Others yet again think we can’t say anything that actually corresponds to God’s true nature. Kant made this distinction. We can never see or understand things as they actually are. For example, a colour-blind friend and I are looking at the very same painting and yet we see very different things. Our knowledge and reality of the painting is coloured by our senses, thinking and interpretation, it is not how the painting actually is. So, the distinction is between things as we perceive them (phenomena) and things as they actually are (noumena). We can apply this to God as well.
Finally, some people think there is a problem with assigning properties to God. It’s more of a medieval/scholastic idea though. If something has constituent parts or properties, that thing is dependent on its parts or properties, moreso, it is dependent on them to be what it is. If God has the property of perfection, God is dependent on perfection to be God. This clashed with their view of God as an absolutely independent being. This has several side-effects as well though, some can be quite unpleasant which is why i suspect it isn’t a popular idea anymore.
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PeterGStanley
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Sorry you can put God in a box - everyone wants a nice clean understandable idea of God - to know the father you must come to know the son there is no other way.
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Love4All
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Before I look at the other answers, I wanted to give this a shot myself.
You did not capitalize the word, ‘god,’ I notice, and I wonder about your intent. To my mind, the questions, “what is a god?” and “what is God?” are two very different questions. The first is much more definite, so I will take it on first.
Etymologically, the word, ‘god’ means, the receiver of the sacrifices, or the one invoked. The idea is of a superior or supreme being, to whom human worship is properly directed. The idea evokes myriad images in the human mind, images of gods, ideas about what a god is. For the most part, gods per se are to a degree anthropomorphic. To that degree, the gods are considered to have intelligence, will, feeling, even human traits like jealousy, anger, and caprice. I am thinking mainly of the pagan pantheons from the various cultures of the world. Most thinkers of any depth these days shy away from a literal interpretation of these ideas as reality.
The God of Israel purportedly commanded the Israelites not to worship any images. Now we are getting more into a discussion of ‘God’ rather than ‘god.’
What is God? God is Love. It is incomprehensible to us how a being could literally be Love, but that is how Saint John defined God. That is the only proper definition of which I am aware, and indeed, if it is true, then it is the only proper definition possible. I hold it to be true, so I accept as simple fact, that God is Love. Love is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God as Father is the sublime, mysterious Origin of all. God the Father is the Origin of all without exception, including God the Son. God the Son is the creative Word of the Father. He is the Manifestation of the Father. He is God as God is known to Himself, and also as He is revealed to us. God the Holy Spirit is the infinite mutual Love of God the Father and the Son. He is the Gift of Love. He is Love.
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Love4All
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That’s not mysticism, its mythology. There is a difference.
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