Post your concept of God

[RossGr]

When the word god is said what image is formed in your mind?


Please share it with the rest of us as best you can.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

<< When the word god is said what image is formed in your mind? >>



The image that i see when i look in the mirror.

 

[datalink7]

I don't believe in a God, but I have gone to Church enough times to get an image. Plus I work at a church, so here it is:

The Wizard Gandolf from LOTR. I see this wizardly figure, in a wizards robe, with a looooong white beard and wrinkled old face.

 

[ace31216]

Some type of light that can't be described.

 

[RossGr]

<< The image that i see when i look in the mirror >>



LOL thats good, just be careful when you snap your fingers ok, I am not ready for another big bang.

 

[amnesiac]

I picture something so unfathomably powerful that it can't be gazed upon with the human eye. Instead, I just hear a voice.


chh chh chh chh chh....kill kill kill kill kill....chh chh....woops, wrong voice, sorry..I got a few of 'em in here..

 

[Amused]

<< When the word god is said what image is formed in your mind?


Please share it with the rest of us as best you can. >>



Image? Nothing.

 

[pen^2]

Evanglion Chogoki!
<watched EoE last nite >

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

george w. bush.... HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
ok sorry... had to

Santa
b/c as children if we were never told santa never existed we would go on believing it till it was disproven same with god/christianity u've just been raised to believe something without proof or disproof. (and once again the bible is hardly proof)

 

[chainbolt]

A good old man, with a white beard, and a long white cotton coat

 

[TripleJ]

Hang on a minute, how do we know that God isn't the best looking chic in the universe! I might believe in a god if that was the case . Well, if so, this is my best bet.

But seriously, why not? I think this is a much better idea of what a god would look like. None of this old fart business. May as well make God look good if we're gonna guess.

 

[Moonbeam]

God is a projection of what we really are, our potential. Thus, whatever you believe or don't believe, He is real. You can become him or you can find him.

 

[Buddhist]

I do not believe in the existence of God.

In the short 22 years of my life to this date, i've come to suspect that what other religions and beliefs have personified into a diety, I call Energy.
This Energy is much like the concept of matter, and is thoroughly distributed throughout the universe. You and I alike are both composed of this Energy and so are every object around us. In other words, everyone is a part of a whole. This is the reason as to why we have such a strong belonging to one another and also to nature as we are one with nature and the universe. As corny as it may seem, the tree is the Energy of ourselves redistributed. As further support for this concept, the cycle of life takes place. We are born, we die, we decompose, and our Energy is once again absorbed back into this world, only to be redistributed into millions of different ways. Thus we once again are a part of a whole. The apple we eat comes from the tree that grew in the soil of the dead of the past. This is the closest thing to god that I believe in.

-M.T.O

 

[chainbolt]

<< Hang on a minute, how do we know that God isn't the best looking chic in the universe! I might believe in a god if that was the case . Well, if so, this is my best bet.

But seriously, why not? I think this is a much better idea of what a god would look like. None of this old fart business. May as well make God look good if we're gonna guess. >>




Very interesting point! really! how about some designer stuff, Louis Vuiton bag, Ferragano slippers, BOSS pants, od course silk underwear, and a Porsche Turbo?

THIS LORD is MY SHEPARD, I can tell ya!

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Ditka is God.

 

[frizzlefry]

Don't you know? That big bang theory is partially correct. God did create it.

It happened one night when I had too many beans! :Q

 

[reitz]

God is/was the &quot;Big Bang&quot;, the existence that created the universe and everything inside it of and from him/itself. All matter is part of God; we, as humans, have the capability to better ourselves and our spirits/souls, while at the same time bringing ourself closer to God/Nirvanna/Allah/whatever. We can better ourselves by forming our own opinions and ideals that help ourselves and others, and become closer to God. Those who refuse to open their minds and form their own opionions, ideals, vitues, and those who harm others physically, emotionionally, and spiritually, distance themselves. To be distant from God/The Truth/Infitity/and so on, is to be absent from those aspects of spirituality. These people after &quot;death&quot; are not necessarily in Hell, or enternal torment, they are simply absent from the truths and answers that we all seek. Call it non-existance, if you wish.

Those who become closer to their &quot;god&quot; or philosophy, live on after death in the presence of said being (there is one &quot;correct&quot; being or diety; it is the one we believe in, in some way or another). Perhaps there are other levels of &quot;enlightenment&quot;, higher &quot;acheivements&quot; to be made. Those who bring ourselves closer to the truth will continue to &quot;discover&quot;. Some souls may fade away into non-existence, but those of us who seek to better ourselves, and truly help to better others, increase the spirit, the essence of God/existence, as we continually bring ourselves closers to the truths. Eventually all of existence acheives &quot;enlightenment&quot;/discovers the &quot;truth&quot;, and becomes one with God. The reverse of the Big Bang occurs, though the mass had increased since the beginning, only to start again.

God did &quot;create&quot; man. After creating the universe, God sticks His &quot;hand&quot; in here and there, to help us-as parts of Him, acheive enlightenment. He may create &quot;miracles&quot;, specific to the type of life/energy that witnesses those miracles. He sacrifices parts of himself, to better himself and his creation; thereby increasing the overall &quot;ammount&quot; of existence or enlightenment. It is true perfection, but that continally builds on itself to infinity.

Wouldn't that be the perfect religion? It includes athiests, agnostics, hindus, wiccans, or whoever, respecting and without dismissing their views, and condemning only those who fail to form their own opinions. One could make immesurable sums of money &quot;preaching&quot; that view, but to do so he'll have to &quot;interpret&quot; parts of the message to make people accept &quot;his&quot; version and he'll fail to meet those virtues he's preached.

 

[Buddhist]

its called ba'hai'

hehe

my cousin once said to me when i was young and first started struggling with religion... (yes i was protestant/catholic/buddhist/shinto at one point.)

&quot;all good religions which seek to benefit people are like the spokes of a wheel. They all lead to the center.&quot;

-M.T.O

 

[dctalksolo]

so you're a buddhest? you openly pray to the spirits and so forth....the only good thing about you people (don't you love grouping like a biggot) (joke) is that you can do cool flips and break stuff....oh well...have a nice burning period

 

[dctalksolo]

so you're a buddhest? you openly pray to the spirits and so forth....the only good thing about you people (don't you love grouping like a biggot) (joke) is that you can do cool flips and break stuff....oh well...have a nice burning period

 

[Buddhist]

actually i'm not really pure buddhist.

Firstly, i don't believe in it as a religion.
Secondly, i only accept certain principles of it as a philosophy.

Buddhist is just my handle.

Do you walk down the street talking to yourself in D.C?

BTW DCTALKSOLO... I sense mass confusion. Its &quot;Buddhist&quot;, and buddhists don't do &quot;ancestral worshipping&quot; Thats Confucianism. And enjoy my &quot;burning period&quot; ?!? Oh. The only sense i can pull from that is that you mean your opinion at the fact that i'll go to hell cause i don't believe in a God? BAH

-M.T.O

 

GOD

 

[chansen]

First tracks down Cirque on Whistler...

 

[Elledan]

What does energy look like? Can you share with us what image forms in your mind when someone says the word 'energy'?

'Gods' are what we, with our puny little minds, would call forces and energy when we don't understand them. That's why wind, lightning, floods, light etc. were all seen as gods (or being caused by certain gods) some time back in history.

 

[SirFshAlot]

reitz,

there's a reason why I like you;
you take tough ideas, and state them so eloquently



My concept of God is an all-powerful, all-knowing entity that is/was the creator of man and the universe.
I don't try to think that I can second guess His ways or intentions.
I believe that He loves us, and what His reason is for our existance here is out of love.
I believe that God will reward me for my faith.

Why God tests my faith is not for me to question if I have faith.
It's a paradox, I guess.