What is your best description for God?

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Father, Savior, Friend, Advocate, Defender, Most Holy…
Too many to name one, really.
 
An infinite being, Creator, unable to be understood with any certainty by humans with finite minds except through faith.
 
Wesrock said:
But that doesn’t answer why there must be an actual state some time before creation.
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You can only have God and his act, creation, at a point since we know that creation exist. In another hand the non-existence of creation is contrary, as it was discussed, this requires two points: (1) God only and a potential state which become actual because of God decision and act and (2) God only or God and creation. This embed God in time. You get another contradiction if you assume (1) and (2) are that same point, you cannot have a state which you have and don’t have creation within, the state is ill-defined. So the only possible scenario is that God and His act, creation exist.
 
STT said:
You can only have God and his act, creation, at a point since we know that creation exist. In another hand the non-existence of creation is contrary, as it was discussed, this requires two points: (1) God only and a potential state which become actual because of God decision and act and (2) God only or God and creation. This embed God in time. You get another contradiction if you assume (1) and (2) are that same point, you cannot have a state which you have and don’t have creation within, the state is ill-defined. So the only possible scenario is that God and His act, creation exist.
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Creation does not occur within time, or within a sequence of events.

Now you need to explain for us, what is a timeless state like?
 
reggieM said:
Creation does not occur within time, or within a sequence of events.
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Yes. Creation only has a beginning. The beginning of creation is the act of creation. I am arguing that you could not have another state before in which God was alone and He was thinking about His act.
reggieM said:
Now you need to explain for us, what is a timeless state like?
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Only existence.
 
  1. The Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church believes and acknowledges that there is one true and living God, creator and lord of heaven and earth, almighty, eternal, immeasurable, incomprehensible, infinite in will, understanding and every perfection.
  2. Since he is one, singular, completely simple and unchangeable spiritual substance, he must be declared to be in reality and in essence, distinct from the world, supremely happy in himself and from himself, and inexpressibly loftier than anything besides himself which either exists or can be imagined.
  3. This one true God, by his goodness and almighty power, not with the intention of increasing his happiness, nor indeed of obtaining happiness, but in order to manifest his perfection by the good things which he bestows on what he creates, by an absolutely free plan, together from the beginning of time brought into being from nothing the twofold created order, that is the spiritual and the bodily, the angelic and the earthly, and thereafter the human which is, in a way, common to both since it is composed of spirit and body.
  4. Everything that God has brought into being he protects and governs by his providence, which reaches from one end of the earth to the other and orders all things well. All things are open and laid bare to his eyes, even those which will be brought about by the free activity of creatures.
Vatican I. ewtn.com/library/councils/V1.htm
 
God is beautiful. Everything He does and Makes is beauty itself! I just love Him so much 😉
 
The Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

The Creator of the universe, whose Son, Jesus came to earth to die for the Redemption of mankind out of Love.
 
ANV said:
If you have to describe God, what would you say.
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The ground of all reality. Ultimate reality. The Source of all possibility. The Alpha and the omega. Tetragrammaton.

The supreme being.
 
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