What is Your Perception of God?

[chongjasmine]

My perception of God is that God is a holy, loving and righteous God.
He could have chosen to be evil, but He chose to be good.
He could have chosen to hate, but He chose to love.
He could have ignored men when men betrayed His love and trust for them, but He chose to come down as a man and died on the cross to pay for the sins of men.

 

[Aussie Thoughts]

I think my 10 year old Grand Nephew may have solved the whole who is, what is God problem for us. According to him, God is a pizza!

Allow me to explain. Last night, after dinner, my wife and I were socializing with his parents. As is often the case, the subject turned to religion. While the adults pondered that, my Grand Nephew quietly played a hand-held video game near by.

As everyone was getting ready to leave, my Grand Nephew turned to me and said, "So, God is like a pizza!"

Much like some of the folks on this forum, he doesn't react well when people fail to take his side. So, I cautiously inquired as to why he felt that way, "Why do you say that?"

"Well, some people like lot's of cheese on their pizza. Some people like pepperoni. Some people like sausage, but no matter what you put on it, they all have the same crust," he replied.

I got the gist of what he was saying, but wanted to make sure. "So God is like pizza dough?"

"Yup, he said gleefully, that's what keeps all the other stuff from spilling into your lap."

"Oh I see. So, God is the dough and the toppings are all the different religions."

"Yup," he repeated with confidence.

"But, what about the people that don't like pizza?"

Loosing patience, "Uncle, nobody doesn't like pizza!"

Being a gluten for punishment sometimes, I inquired further, "But what about people that don't believe in God?"

Dumbfounded he replied, "That's just silly! If you don't believe in God, all the good stuff on the pizza is just going to fall into your lap and make a mess!"

Out of the mouths of babes.......

Brilliant! I like this kid.

 

[urbandekay]

God is that he is. This I understand to mean that God is everything. God is that which subsists in the composition of all that we call the universe, which is not to say that God is not more beside that. God is love. All that we can say of God is incorrect because our language is insufficient to describe that which is infinite

 

[wil]

Yes eating pizza dough (this is my body) for those sensitive is being a gluten for pun-ishment.

 

[Marcialou]

Take the Genesis creation account. To some it is historically inaccurate, unscientific, perhaps laughable. To me it is sacred because I have become a part of that creation...

Throw out the time factor. Whether a day is a millisecond or a million years means not a whit. Throw out history, throw out science as we know it, throw out human wisdom. Here is the shadow of eternal creation laid out in in a linear fashion so that we can have a chance at grasping it. A divine alchemy of sorts.

And so these forms and allegories are very important to me because I have had a glimpse of the heart behind them...

Although I’m not religious, I am also moved by the creation account. Asking questions like “Where did I come from?” “ Where did anything come from?” and “Why must we suffer,” is part of what defines us as human and why these allegories resonate with me.

I didn’t know about the Big Bang until well into adulthood. I hadn’t studied much science and somehow I had this notion that the universe was eternal: that it always was and it always will be. When I did begin to understand it I thought, “that’s like Genesis: out of nothing came everything.”

Sometimes when I think about the Big Bang and Evolution, I am so in awe of how things came about, it’s like seeing “Einstein’s God.”

 

[stranger]

Although I’m not religious, I am also moved by the creation account. Asking questions like “Where did I come from?” “ Where did anything come from?” and “Why must we suffer,” is part of what defines us as human and why these allegories resonate with me.

I didn’t know about the Big Bang until well into adulthood. I hadn’t studied much science and somehow I had this notion that the universe was eternal: that it always was and it always will be. When I did begin to understand it I thought, “that’s like Genesis: out of nothing came everything.”

Sometimes when I think about the Big Bang and Evolution, I am so in awe of how things came about, it’s like seeing “Einstein’s God.”

Me too, Marcialou, me too. Very beautifully said, thanks for posting it. My apologies for just now seeing it. I was just checking my email this morning and saw the notification.

My education has plenty of holes in it and so I am always being surprised by something new that I've never heard of before from both science and religion.

 

[Nick the Pilot]

"...is being a gluten for..."

--> A glutton for gluten? (ha)

 

[Shibolet]

My perception of God is that God is a holy, loving and righteous God.
He could have chosen to be evil, but He chose to be good.
He could have chosen to hate, but He chose to love.
He could have ignored men when men betrayed His love and trust for them, but He chose to come down as a man and died on the cross to pay for the sins of men.

My perception of God is that of an absolute Oneness, and here is how I describe my perception of God:

The Absolute Oneness of God

Isaiah says that, absolutely, God cannot be compared with anyone or anything, as we read Isaiah. "To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal to , or compare Me with, that we may be alike?"

Therefore, more than one God would have been unable to produce the world; one would have impeded the work of the other, unless this could be avoided by a suitable division of labor.

More than one Divine Being would have one element in common, and would differ in another; each would thus consist of two elements, and would not be God.

More than one God are moved to action by will; the will, without a substratum, could not act simultaneously in more than one being.

Therefore, the existence of one God is proved; the existence of more than one God cannot be proved. One could suggest that it would be possible; but since as possibility is inapplicable to God, there does not exist more than one God. So, the possibility of ascertaining the existence of God is here confounded with potentiality of existence.

Again, if one God suffices, a second or third God would be superfluous; if one God is not sufficient, he is not perfect, and cannot be a deity.

Now, besides being God absolutely One, He is incorporeal. If God were corporeal, He would consist of atoms, and would not be one; or he would be comparable to other beings; but a comparison implies the existence of similar and of dissimilar elements, and God would thus not be One. A corporeal God would be finite, and an external power would be required to define those limits.