What is God?

[anadi]

What exactly is God from a Christian point of view?

 

[Desert Snake]

The Creator. Jesus, or Jeshua, the 'prime Deity', above other spirits or beings.

 

[savagewind]

What exactly is God from a Christian point of view?

I think the question should be what exactly is God from YOUR Christian point of view.

God is A Spirit. God is Love. God is Father to Messiah Yeshua (who is being called Jesus Christ).

 

[anadi]

I think the question should be what exactly is God from YOUR Christian point of view.

You're right.



Is God a person? Does He have a form? Are we separate from God? What is the purpose of creation?

 

[savagewind]

You're right.



Is God a person?

I can be true to believe God is A Person. Do I know? No, I don't. It is not bad to think it. Is it?

Does He have a form?

No. Spirit has no form. I hear it is a sin to make a form for God.
3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Are we separate from God?

We were seperate since the garden of Eden and now I am not but not because of anything I am. It is for believing the son of God has come.

What is the purpose of creation?

God knows what it is. I do not. I have made it my purpose to know what the hell is going on here.

 

[Apple Sugar]

What exactly is God from a Christian point of view?

A innate/omni~present animistic spirit.

 

[anadi]

So most Christians do not hold the belief that God is an man with a beard sitting in the sky watching over us? Because thats the idea many poeple especially atheists have I think.

 

[Apple Sugar]

 

[savagewind]

So most Christians do not hold the belief that God is an man with a beard sitting in the sky watching over us? Because thats the idea many poeple especially atheists have I think.

So atheists you say have the idea that Christians believe God is a man in the sky. And we should probably pay more attentions to those atheists? :no:

 

[anadi]

So atheists you say have the idea that Christians believe God is a man in the sky. And we should probably pay more attentions to those atheists? :no:

Of course not. I was just interested if this modern stereotypical image of God has any basis whatsoever in the beliefs of Christians.

 

[Sariel]

Eh my views are somewhere between monotheistic and panentheistic.
I think His names names are the most telling thing about the nature of God. YHVH-which means "to be" and and ehyeh-asher-ehyeh "I shall be what I become/I AM that I AM"
The transcendent source and foundation for all existence, the totality of all that it seen and unseen. Now, is God a "person" in the sense that he has a will, I think so. Is God a persona that we can have a personal relationship with? I'm not entirely sure myself, at least not in the same sense of having a relationship with another person.
God is certainly given a lot of human characteristics and flaws in the OT, but I think that they are either tools of allegory, or a "dumbing down" so that the bronze age Israelites would better understand the nature of God for their time.

 

[serenee19]

There are thousands of Christian denominations, and an equal number of views of God. Most say that Jesus is/was God, some don't.

 

[Katzpur]

As a Christian, I believe that God is our "Father in Heaven," the father (i.e. creator of our spirits). He is the almighty ruler of our universe.

 

[Sleeppy]

I'm completely monotheistic.. Pantheism/panentheism fit into this in that I believe God "created" of Himself, and for Himself. We are gods only in this sense. Time and free will are products of limited perception- illusions- therefore God's will is all there is, and it determines "eternity". No duality.. Satan is a function of God's will in humanity. -- God is Spirit, which may or may not be synonymous with energy. God either preceded the singularity, or "was" the singularity- or both. The Word may have been the singularity, and we are the flesh that resulted (including plants and animals). We are all called to overcome and be called Israel, and Messiahs. We are all kings in a properly functioning democracy, under the Father who is King of Kings.

 

[goofball]

What exactly is God from a Christian point of view?

not a Christian, but would like to offer my opinion, and no offense meant; but for me everything is God, an extension of God.

what God is will remain a mystery, and we are a part of that mystery.
we are all separate waves, and connected waves.
and we are the Ocean.