What is "God" and what can "It" "Do"?

A thing to consider is that God may be a she and that possibly could explain it all.

My take on God is if it exists it can not posses any absolute attributes. Those always lead to a contradiction. For instance if it knows everything then how can it forget? If it has all powers then how can it restrict its own powers? Worse contraindications are introduced if it has assigned concepts of good or evil. Those are human concepts and belong to humans. Creation of the universe has its own issue, what created God? Even if you posit God outside of time, that means there is another time dimension or you can't create, creation implying some kind to time to have a before and after. Again, what created God in this other time?

As to organized religions, I tend to agree that they are all con jobs. Good ones considering how long they have persisted.

As to doing God's work, what a hoot. Nearly every person saying this posits that God is all powerful. Why does it need a puny human to do its work?

As to obeying a bunch of laws, another hoot. If God is the designer, it designed the universe so we could not violate its laws, such as going faster than light. The other laws are human inventions.

Does this mean there is no God? No. It does limit what God can be. It rules out what all the organized religions have to say about God.

What would a God be under what is left? If you insist that God caused the universe then they both must have started simultaneously. That leaves us with a big clue. If you remove all the anthropomorphism as well then God may not be a "living thing" as we would know it. But there is no reason to expect God to be life as we know it. Where does that leave us? God is a thing that started when the universe did. The one thing we know that fits that description is the universe. ergo God is the Universe.

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My take on God is if it exists it can not posses any absolute attributes. Those always lead to a contradiction. For instance if it knows everything then how can it forget? If it has all powers then how can it restrict its own powers? Worse contraindications are introduced if it has assigned concepts of good or evil. Those are human concepts and belong to humans. Creation of the universe has its own issue, what created God? Even if you posit God outside of time, that means there is another time dimension or you can't create, creation implying some kind to time to have a before and after. Again, what created God in this other time?

As to organized religions, I tend to agree that they are all con jobs. Good ones considering how long they have persisted.

As to doing God's work, what a hoot. Nearly every person saying this posits that God is all powerful. Why does it need a puny human to do its work?

As to obeying a bunch of laws, another hoot. If God is the designer, it designed the universe so we could not violate its laws, such as going faster than light. The other laws are human inventions.

Does this mean there is no God? No. It does limit what God can be. It rules out what all the organized religions have to say about God.

What would a God be under what is left? If you insist that God caused the universe then they both must have started simultaneously. That leaves us with a big clue. If you remove all the anthropomorphism as well then God may not be a "living thing" as we would know it. But there is no reason to expect God to be life as we know it. Where does that leave us? God is a thing that started when the universe did. The one thing we know that fits that description is the universe. ergo God is the Universe.

guido.man,
Do you really want to know who God is?
Or do you just want to have an abstract chat to completely knock the whole concept of God?

If you want to know about the Higgs Boson, you would read a science article that tells you about it!
If you want to know about Einsteins general relativity, you would read a science article that tells you about it!

If you want to know who God is, then you have to read an article that discusses God. That article is the Bible, or the Koran or whatever. You MUST read the source of the story to find the truth!

So what does the Bible say about God?

IMPORTANT; It says that Jesus was his "Son". So we all know most of the stories about Jesus, so we know full well that Jesus was a Man, a human being, just like you and me. So lets put 2 and 2 together. If Jesus was a flesh and blood human being, then God, his father was a flesh and blood human being just like you and me. Its that simple! Its not magic!

So if God is a human being, what's the difference between God and me and you?

The difference is that God is a scientist just like us human beings do science today. But God, the scientist, cracked all the problems that we are still trying to figure out today. So that means that God cracked genetic engineering. And so God has altered his genetic code so that he does not have to die. This means that God, and his buddies like Jesus, and the prophets, and Buddha, and who ever else got into this elite club, they are all immortal.

So along with immortality, they enjoy all the other benefits that we are currently enjoying through scientific advancement. But they have ALL of science, so they have the scientific stuff that we are currently just dreaming about.

Now thats how you use logic and your intelligence to find out who God really is. Want to know who and what God is, then you got to reference directly from the source material, the bible. Everything else is just hear-say!

John.
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Science is science and religion is religion; they are not necessarily incompatible. But science doesn't prove religion nor does religion teach us science. The purpose of science is to explain the workings of the physical universe; while the purpose of religion is (very broadly) to teach us how to be better people to each other and to ourselves.

Please don't use the words of the Bible or any other religious book to argue that since the science isn't right, therefore religion must also be false. Religious teaching is rife with parables, metaphors and allegories, because those teachings are not concerned with scientific reality, but with moral and ethical truths. If you dismiss the works of Shakespeare or Tolkien because what they wrote did not really happen, then you miss the point completely.

Science is science and religion is religion;

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The bible is a description of what happens when scientists go off to new planets and start creating planets and animals, and then other intelligent beings in their own image. And we too will give our future "created" children a book, which we might call it the bible, to let them know their origins.
John.

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The bible is a description of what happens when scientists go off to new planets and start creating plants and animals, and then other intelligent beings in their own image. And we too will give our future "created" children a book, which we might call it the bible, to let them know their origins.
John.

& that confirms that there is a god? Using your example, what's to say that "someone else" hasn't already done this with the earth?

They came here roughly about 10,000 BC, created us around 4,004 BC

Have you been reading this?

OMG........?!?