What comes to your mind or what’s in your mind, when you think or say “God”?

[Jim]

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What comes to your mind or what’s in your mind, when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God,” or some equivalent of that.

(edited to add the following)
This is not about who or what God is, or for discussions about the meanings of scripture passages. It’s about what you are experiencing, at the time when you think or say the word “God.”

 

[Rival]

I have an image that looks vaguely like a mist over a sea. I don't know why. Like this,

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[Spirit of Light]

What comes to your mind when you think or say “God”? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God.”

Truthfulness, Compassion, and forbearance comes to mind

 

[Jim]

For me it might be different at different times and in different circumstances. Sometimes it might be a gigantic talking head. Sometimes it might be a kind of vapor or mist. Sometimes it might be a feeling like how I feel when I’m thinking of someone far away, without actually picturing a person. Sometimes it might be a person, but incoplete or without much detail. When I’m reading scriptures it might be whatever fits His description and what He’s saying and doing in the part that I’m reading.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

NOTE: This thread is not in a debate forum.

What comes to your mind when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God.”

When people say "God," what comes to mind for me is a magical anthromorphic being who lives in the sky, who religious people insist isn't a magical anthromorphic being who lives in the sky, but then they behave as if he's a magical anthromorphic being who lives in the sky.

 

[Polymath257]

My grandmother. She raised me and always wanted me to grow up to be 'a fine Christian boy'.

Sorry, gram.

 

[Jim]

Maybe most often it’s what I picture when I think of “the universe,” with something about the same size alongside of it, that’s invisible.

 

[Jim]

When people say "God," what comes to mind for me is a magical anthromorphic being who lives in the sky.

I might picture Him that way too, sometimes.

 

[Jim]

Truthfulness, Compassion, and forbearance comes to mind

Obviously.

 

[rational experiences]

I think of Father who regained his eternal spirit form when all of his first male human spirits died in life, and are now communicating from the eternal spirit, as the being who originally changed eternal and caused God to be created.

I think that most males would agree with that thought in science, of a self aware adult male history. Owning a belief in their psyche that they created God.

Having had him speak to me, the enormity of his presence is not describable.

 

[ChristineM]

NOTE: This thread is not in a debate forum.

What comes to your mind when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God,” or some equivalent of that.

You don't want to know on a public thread

 

[Brickjectivity]

NOTE: This thread is not in a debate forum.

What comes to your mind when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God,” or some equivalent of that.

This surprises me, but first I think of infinite power. Then I also think about how power is really nothing (since we are so tiny that what we experience is actually not that significant), so I imagine also a ghostly power like a mist. Its hard to describe. My thoughts branch into lots of different things when I think about God.

I also think of something else. I think of love which surpasses the human sort. I have had a supernatural experience while contemplating the beauty of the concept of love. I may have stepped outside of time. It is one of the events that changed my life, causing me to make a choice that I would not have. Everything would have been different.

 

[Psalm23]

I had a song come to mind that goes like God is good all the time. He put a song of praise in this heart of mine...

 

[Native]

What comes to your mind when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God,” or some equivalent of that.

I just think "creative force of light" and that´s it.

 

[Heyo]

NOTE: This thread is not in a debate forum.

What comes to your mind or what’s in your mind, when you think or say “God,” “Allah,” “Jevovah,” or whatever you think might be equivalent to that? It can be images, thoughts, memories, feelings, impressions, or any other experiences that often come along with thinking or saying “God,” or some equivalent of that.

I don't connect anything to the word "god". I trained to do so. It helped to realize that it has no gender and started referring to it as "it".
I'm aware that others have images in their mind and I might answer them in the context they presumably think of.

 

[dybmh]

What comes to your mind or what’s in your mind, when you think or say “God”?

big

 

[sun rise]

Comforter. Protector. Guide. Playmate.

 

[syo]

Nice!

 

[VoidCat]

Nature itself. Life. Magick.

 

[George-ananda]

God is the One Universal Consciousness that we are all a part of.