On God

These posts mentioned are from my Christianity board. I hope that clears that little bit of information up for you.

Alright, let me clear up for you what I believe God is from my past posts:

From my post "A Christian Philosophy":

"God is an ideal. God is the personification of the ideal of all that is right, just as the devil is the ideal of all that is evil."

"Now, whether there is an actual ENTITY that is "God" is extremely questionable, and logically no. The fact remains though that there are things that are inherently good and inherently bad. What God is the personification of that which is Good, and the worship therein of the Ultimate Goodness."

From my post "Because I'm sick of the question":

"I don't believe any human record can give an accurate definition of God."

"What I'm talking about here is the concept, not entity, of God. God is not a thing. He is not an entity. God is an idea"

From my post "Proving God":

"God (*if* he exists) by nature is infinite."

Can God make a Rock that is too heavy for him to move?

This implies once again that God is in a physical world. This is confining God to our finite terms. A rock and physical strength are attributes that we give to the physical, finite world. God, if He exists, is not in the finite world, thus we cannot subject him to finite situations. Asking God to make a rock that he cannot lift is like asking a square to suddenly become a sphere. Just as a square, by definition is a four sided 2-D quadrahedral, cannot become a sphere, a none sided 3-D object, we cannot ask God, an infinite being to transform itself into our world and our conditions which are finite.

Thus, the argument is completely invalid because we are asking God to perform that which is not of His nature, but of ours.

To conclude all of these statements, my definition of God is as follows:

God is not an entity, but an idea. He isn't singular or plural, he isn't strong or weak, he isn't big or small, he isn't any label we could possibly put on Him. He is a concept of everything we don't know or understand. He is the personification of all that we wish were perfect. He is everything and he is nothing. He is all that I say he is, and none of it. God cannot be confined to any terms I could ever give, because no one can fathom, not even I, such concepts that he is.

Philosophy