What is God? (Mindonfire Idea)

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Now some things I do believe about God are:
That God is perfect balance.
That God is Love.
That God is Light. ( Not light by which we see, but light which lets us glimpse into God's true nature. )

Mind stated

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LOL! You don't even know who or what God is, so how do you know if it is his word?

But I must question how does any one who professes to believe in God, know that they know God?

((( -- Remember please to all, I believe in God. But I don't believe the bible is the Word of God. I believe in God because it is the only idea that makes logical sense on how the earth even exists. -- )))

Now to my question that I have posed, which was based on the question that Mindonfire asked of me.

I must admit that I don't KNOW God, I don't personally think anyone can KNOW God in a complete sense. To me God is just so far beyound our compresion or even understanding that to build any type of theory about God would be a simple and utter waste of time.

Now some things I do believe about God are:
That God is perfect balance.
That God is Love.
That God is Light. ( Not light by which we see, but light which lets us glimpse into God's true nature. )

So just that basic things I believe about God, that to me make logical sense about God, bring me to the point that I can not believe in the bible for that reason.

There is just to much hate, anger, murder, etc. for me to accept that the bible is the word of God.

So what think ye?

What is God?

I am not asking people to define God, I am asking what God is?

one of the most frequently asked questions i am asked as a Christian is ''why is there so much suffering in our world if God exists?''

my answer is this:

1) it was not meant to be this way. when God created the earth we were all supposed to live in ''heaven on earth'' in the garden of eden. but adam and eve (the little sods) ruined that for all of us and sent the world into an existence infected by sin.

2) a lot of the suffering is man made. all of the wars in history, all the recent natural disasters and all the misery in the world today is man made. so why doesn't God get involved? because he gives us the freedom of choice. if he were to stop every single disaster from happening we would be left with no doubt that God existed as there would be no death, no pain, nothing negative. it is because of our free choice that God doesn't get stuck in. the tsunami was caused by global warming - man made. all wars are result of humans making choices to attack other humans. God doesn't want us to believe in him because we 'know' he's there, that's not believing, there would be no faith involved. just fact. he wants us to choose to believe in him. he wants us to choose to live our lives by his word, not force us into it.

3) an anallergy i like to use on this is think of when a father is helping his child learn to ride a bike, the father knows that the child will fall and hurt himself, but the father does not stop this from happening because if he did the child would never learn how to ride. understand?

one of the most frequently asked questions i am asked as a Christian is ''why is there so much suffering in our world if God exists?''

my answer is this:

1) it was not meant to be this way. when God created the earth we were all supposed to live in ''heaven on earth'' in the garden of eden. but adam and eve (the little sods) ruined that for all of us and sent the world into an existence infected by sin.

2) a lot of the suffering is man made. all of the wars in history, all the recent natural disasters and all the misery in the world today is man made. so why doesn't God get involved? because he gives us the freedom of choice. if he were to stop every single disaster from happening we would be left with no doubt that God existed as there would be no death, no pain, nothing negative. it is because of our free choice that God doesn't get stuck in. the tsunami was caused by global warming - man made. all wars are result of humans making choices to attack other humans. God doesn't want us to believe in him because we 'know' he's there, that's not believing, there would be no faith involved. just fact. he wants us to choose to believe in him. he wants us to choose to live our lives by his word, not force us into it.

3) an anallergy i like to use on this is think of when a father is helping his child learn to ride a bike, the father knows that the child will fall and hurt himself, but the father does not stop this from happening because if he did the child would never learn how to ride. understand?

It is amusing to see the word 'logic' bandied about as if the original poster understood what logic constitutes.

There is nothing 'logical' about any faith based belief.

It is amusing to see the word 'logic' bandied about as if the original poster understood what logic constitutes.

There is nothing 'logical' about any faith based belief.