As a human race, we have had (and still have) so much divided opinion over what is God. Fueled by different belief systems, there has been so much dispute. Some of it involving killing each other because of their of their divided differences, fighting over what they believe is God.
Even when having the same religion there are those following sub-religions, fighting with each other because of the differing ways in which they believe in God.
-It’s funny how, no matter what religion it is, a major one, or, say, one having an off-beat cult following, people always think that their religion is the one that’s right!
Then there are those who do not believe in God. I call this (atheism) the religion of not believing in God! After all, it is still a belief system.
–I put it to you that the God he thought of was never alive to be dead… (more later).
God as an anthropomorphic being
For millennia, down countless generations, we’ve been given this idea of God as an anthropomorphic being: The Big Boss in the sky. See the above painting by Michelangelo entitled “God the father of creation: The creation of the sun and the moon…”
-Is this idea of God a way of inventing an imaginary being that is used to explain how and why things happen? Is this a rather disempowering viewpoint in the respect that rather than take responsibility for one’s own life, just leave it to the whims of an external Big Boss in the sky God?
Center of the universe
As commented by Carl Sagan in “The God Delusion” (video), we have been given the idea, a rather conceited one, that God created Earth and we are the center of the universe. For example, in the Bible, there is never any mention that there’s life on other planets.
Doesn’t this rather limited viewpoint originate from millennia-old accounts having primitive knowledge of our existence, not very advance science? We now know that our sun is one of 1 to 4 hundred billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Then there an estimated 1 to 4 hundred billion galaxies each having the same number of stars as our own galaxy. It’s difficult to put an accurate number the total stars because of our limited viewpoint when counting.
It has also been said that there are countless multidimensional parallel alternative universes (multiverses) existing…
-Doesn’t this bigger picture make the idea of God as an anthropomorphic being, a male by gender, having hair, skin color, clothed in a white robe, looking old-aged… seem rather ludicrous?
Isn’t it high-time (if not done already) that we moved on to identify with God in a different light?
God in terms of marrying spirituality with science
How about considering what Nikola Tesla once said to get a better understanding of what is God:
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena; it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
-Nikola Tesla
God as the oneness of everything
Keeping it simple, leaving out the “duality trap” and its related arguments, my truths versus your truths, avoiding fault-finding, how about seeing God as the oneness of everything? -ALL-THERE-IS. Beware of the slippery slopes in the arguments.
All things are the expression of the one God. The eternal and boundless prime Creator.
God is something to be experienced. Sometimes words are only limiting the necessary and required openness to experience. And remember, nobody can take away your experience. What you experience truly really is what you experience in terms of your relationship with God.
Finally
Knowing is knowing how little we know
Greek philosopher, Socrates, during the times of Ancient Greece, said: “Knowing is knowing how little we know.” -Isn’t this an apt statement when it comes to understanding and responding to the question what is God?
Instead of being in a fixed, rigid and dogmatic state, how about having an open mindedness, having the realization that the more we know, the less we know, to make insightful ongoing inquiries into answering the extremely challenging question what is God? After all, we are in effect dealing with something intangible.
When seen like this, regardless of what religion you have, be it a major or off-beat cult one, or no religion at all, regardless of any believe, your concept of what is God, we can all come to terms with one thing: That we are all trying to reach out to the intangible God for our own spirituality. Our own spiritual guidance.
Our own spirituality, as with others can lead us to God. It’s up to you. It’s up us all.
How would you respond to the question what is God?
As always, in much love, peace and light.
Paul