Do poor old Tabula a favour and give him an idea of what you think God is in a little creative-writing exercise.
One person - one post - “To me, God is + 25 words or less.”
[size=75][Doh - okay you can go over if you wish, but try to keep it simple and clear][/size]
[size=75][Moderators: if you think this is too mundane a topic, please feel free to move it into the babble section - or should that be babel…?][/size]
Although I really like Crooked Mouths answer, I would simply say “God” is a fictional characture born out of jewish culture, further defined in a fun work of fantasy called the bible, which has inspired millions of putty minded cattle to lose sight of what life really is in favor of a bowl full of sugar and a blindfold.
God is man’s invention to explain the unknown; morphed into the notion of everything; which subsequently enslaves its creator. God is irony at its best.
The only representation of God that I admit currently is a spirit, which is more powerful than others, but not the creator of everything.
The attempts to define God as a kind of Absolute, be it transcendent or immanent, are doomed to failure, to my mind. They are entangled in paradoxes. Perhaps I am too demanding, but I can’t make sense of it.
Jewish tradition teaches that God came to different cultures and people and asked them to give their opinion on what God was; the philosophers gave there awnsers, the wise men, other people who God was asking gave their awnsers as well – and then God asked Abraham.