Define "God"

[Kueid]

In my brief existence (what is that?) in the RF I've seen a lot of different uses of the term "God" by the users. Some people assume that others have the same definition, others believe that the word have a unique meaning shared by everyone (you can call it a meta meaning for understands sake), others believe just the opposite of that. Sometimes (a lot of times?) those interpretations aren't true.

Some of you already have realized my obsession with meaning. Sooooo... I liked to get some of that meaning out of you guys and girls and ask this: Define "God"!

Rules:
1. Please don't derail the thread, this is not a debate.
2. Answer the question twitter style (if possible).
3. ????
4. If you don't have a definition write your best guess (of what you think is your definition).
5. Don't ask about rule number 3.
6. If your definition is already here, like it.

Obs: My best guess for what's my definition of the word is "everything".

NOTE:
For clarification. Your definition of the word is independent of what I think of the word or anyone think of the word. When you read the word, independent of context, what comes to your mind? That's the "real question", I think.

Thanks for @Quintessence for this note.

 

[`mud]

The 'Old One' or 'Enodlo'.
~
'mud

 

[BSM1]

In my brief existence (what is that?) in the RF I've seen a lot of different uses of the term "God" by the users. Some people assume that others have the same definition, others believe that the word have a unique meaning shared by everyone (you can call it a meta meaning for understands sake), others believe just the opposite of that. Sometimes (a lot of times?) those interpretations aren't true.

Some of you already have realized my obsession with meaning. Sooooo... I liked to get some of that meaning out of you guys and girls and ask this: Define "God"!

Rules:
1. Please don't derail the thread, this is not a debate.
2. Answer the question twitter style (if possible).
3. ????
4. If you don't have a definition write your best guess (of what you think is your definition).
5. Don't ask about rule number 3.
6. If your definition is already here, like it.

Obs: My best guess for what's my definition of the word is "everything".

And nothing..what is and what isn't...the known as well as the knowing...the question and the answer..shall I go on?

 

[George-ananda]

Define "God"

God/Brahman is pure infinite consciousness best but always inadequately described in Vedic scriptures as sat-cit-ananda (being-awareness-bliss).

 

[Quintessence]

@Kueid
Do you really mean "God" (proper case, singular, which typically designates the one-god of the Abrahamic religions) or any sort of god(s) or theological model?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

In my brief existence (what is that?) in the RF I've seen a lot of different uses of the term "God" by the users. Some people assume that others have the same definition, others believe that the word have a unique meaning shared by everyone (you can call it a meta meaning for understands sake), others believe just the opposite of that. Sometimes (a lot of times?) those interpretations aren't true.

Some of you already have realized my obsession with meaning. Sooooo... I liked to get some of that meaning out of you guys and girls and ask this: Define "God"!

Rules:
1. Please don't derail the thread, this is not a debate.
2. Answer the question twitter style (if possible).
3. ????
4. If you don't have a definition write your best guess (of what you think is your definition).
5. Don't ask about rule number 3.
6. If your definition is already here, like it.

Obs: My best guess for what's my definition of the word is "everything".

Life.

(Twitter style?)

 

[Kueid]

Thanks everyone for the responses, keep them coming!

 

[Kueid]

@Kueid
Do you really mean "God" (proper case, singular, which typically designates the one-god of the Abrahamic religions) or any sort of god(s) or theological model?

Stick to the rules please, specially number 1.

 

[LuisDantas]

God is whatever people inclined to personify that what is sacred decide to deserve personifying the sacred.

In Abrahamic-influenced cultures that tends to involve the assumption that such a concept is necessary to explain a supposed "First Cause", to make morality possible, and to promote an often illusory or even delusional sense of kinship and common purposes.

 

[Quintessence]

Stick to the rules please, specially number 1.

Asking for clarification from you is not a prelude to a debate or a derail. I am asking because your intention for the thread - whether you meant to discuss God or god(s)/deities more broadly - will have a significant impact on how I answer your question.

 

[rusra02]

God is anything or anyone who is worshipped. The true God is the almighty, supreme being and Creator.

 

[Tumah]

The closest word for "G-d" in Hebrew is either, E-L or ELo-HIM.
E-L relates to might as in Ex. 15:11 "Who is like You among the mighty (ELIM, plural of EL)".
Among other explanations for the name ELo-HIM that I have seen, the one that I understand is that it relates to ruler-ship (Kuzari Essay 4, Abarbanel 1:1).
Hence the Canaanite pantheon all refer to gods that rule over various elements of nature (per their names). The Jewish G-d is understood to be the ruler of everything and is therefore also called ELo-HIM.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

Thanks everyone for the responses, keep them coming!

God is a title.
In Scripture God is defined as:
God is Supreme Being
God is Creator - Revelation 4:11
God is Heavenly Father ( our Life Giver )

The God of the Bible has main attributes or qualities such as:
God "IS" Love
God has Power
God has Wisdom
God has Mercy
God has Justice
God is a Law Giver - Psalms 19:7-9; Psalms 19:10-12

 

[URAVIP2ME]

The closest word for "G-d" in Hebrew is either, E-L or ELo-HIM.
E-L relates to might as in Ex. 15:11 "Who is like You among the mighty (ELIM, plural of EL)".
Among other explanations for the name ELo-HIM that I have seen, the one that I understand is that it relates to ruler-ship (Kuzari Essay 4, Abarbanel 1:1).
Hence the Canaanite pantheon all refer to gods that rule over various elements of nature (per their names). The Jewish G-d is understood to be the ruler of everything and is therefore also called ELo-HIM.

God: Elohim, and Sovereign Lord: Adhonai - Exodus 15:11. The God who is the ' Ruler of everything ' is also called by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton name (YHWH)

 

[Tumah]

God: Elohim, and Sovereign Lord: Adhonai - Exodus 15:11. The God who is the ' Ruler of everything ' is also called by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton name (YHWH)

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

 

[Akivah]

For clarification. Your definition of the word is independent of what I think of the word or anyone think of the word. When you read the word, independent of context, what comes to your mind? That's the "real question", I think.

The first thought that comes to my mind is that G-d is One, Eternal, Unique and Creator of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

God is love.

 

[Covellite]

God is being created humans.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

In my brief existence (what is that?) in the RF I've seen a lot of different uses of the term "God" by the users. Some people assume that others have the same definition, others believe that the word have a unique meaning shared by everyone (you can call it a meta meaning for understands sake), others believe just the opposite of that. Sometimes (a lot of times?) those interpretations aren't true.

Some of you already have realized my obsession with meaning. Sooooo... I liked to get some of that meaning out of you guys and girls and ask this: Define "God"!

Rules:
1. Please don't derail the thread, this is not a debate.
2. Answer the question twitter style (if possible).
3. ????
4. If you don't have a definition write your best guess (of what you think is your definition).
5. Don't ask about rule number 3.
6. If your definition is already here, like it.

Obs: My best guess for what's my definition of the word is "everything".

NOTE:
For clarification. Your definition of the word is independent of what I think of the word or anyone think of the word. When you read the word, independent of context, what comes to your mind? That's the "real question", I think.

Thanks for @Quintessence for this note.

"God" is the name that some theists use for the god or gods that they primarily worship.

That's it as far as a common definition, AFAICT. However, every specific God has attributes and qualities for its own specific definition.

 

[Riverwolf]

Well, in terms of the proper noun "God" (a different word from the typically lowercased common noun "god"), the first thing that typically comes to mind is some sort of old fatherly figure who lives in the daytime sky, who more or less "looks like" classical depictions of Zeus.

Appropriate, since most of the words for "God" we have in European languages (including the word "God" itself) all once referred to a family of Gods who are all descended from the Proto-Indo-European *Dyaus, or Sky Father. That word became the Greek Zeus, the Latin Deus which once referred to Iuppiter/Jupiter, the Germanic Tiwaz (Old Norse Týr, Old English Tiw) who might have once also held "God" as an alternate name, etc.