What IS it?

[Cosmos]

Well, outta boredom....(and the need for blood) I was wondering in your own opinions what do you think god is? Not just the god that's on the green money we love so much..It can be on any god, and about anything that relates to it. I'm just curious to know your views on it, so let the bledshe-- I mean, talking ensue..<.<

[Meiscool-2]

God is oooog. And soon to be; oooog is God.

[Gary]

god is a figment of our hopes and dreams. We need something as human beings to lean back on so we aren't so insecure. We can't live with the fact that after we die it's all over. So we create something to live on in the hopes that it may be true. Death is inevitable and after that it's over.

[Cosmos]

GO OOOG!!!!

Lol, anyways I like what you said Gar. It had it's own flow, and made sense. :p

[drenrin2120]

You can say that, but nobody really knows what happens after death. It could be it, nothing more, or there could be something else. Maybe we do all become ghost (though I think it would be crowded). no one really knows. To me, God is something humans have got the wrong idea about. I don't think he casts people into eternal damnation and scorching flames. No, that doesn't make sense. Why would god send his own children to that kinda fate? Whether they were good or evil. No, I think god is more forgiving than that. Hell is a lie made up by the church to gain power. To me, god is real, but I can't tell you WHAT he is. He's something we as humans may never understand.

[Cosmos]

Well Dren, let's put it this way...Think of God as a parent..What do parents do when children act up? (Besides locking them in closets, and straving them for a day  :p). They punish them, it would be like what God does. I actually believe in life after death, I dunno...it's just sometimes new events seem familiar. Weird <.<

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by drenrin2120
He's something we as humans may never understand.

Yeah. She's a mystery that we will most likly never solve.

[Cosmos]

I think God's a girl too. I mean, girl's give life...not guys...<.<

Also, adam and eve..they were like the only two people alive. They were like brother and sister I guess, and then their sons came along... how did they have kids? O.O Did they have sex with eve...or sheep? o.O

[Meiscool-2]

Those Mother Fuckers!

[drenrin2120]

Yeah, I could believe that god is a she. Or maybe he OR she has no gender.

I do believe god will punish people for there sins, but ETERNAL scorching flames? That's pretty harsh.

[Gary]

Originally posted by Meiscool
Those Mother Fuckers!

here here.

[aboutasoandthis]

Touchy Subject. This is what I have to say.

I believe there is a God, and a Satan, but I believe there are other worlds out there. Nobody seems to mention Purgatory (Spelling) or anything else. Plus, there are other religions out there. I think we do go somewhere else, because we seem to do things different from animals. We have inhibitions. We have a sense of right and wrong.

About the heaven and hell thing, I've met two people in my life that gave me some thoughts on the subject.

I used to have this great uncle. He was a really nice guy. Before he really passed away, he was once legally pronounced dead then brought back to life. He said that while he was dead, he saw a white light. He felt pleasant and happy. At first I didn't think anything of it.

Then I had this good friend of mine. His father wasn't the greatest person in the world. He was from Louisiana. Kind of a racist. He ditched my friend family when he was young. He was abusive. He lives with his mom. He's been pronounced legally dead three times. He's said each time, he say an annoying red light that gave him headaches.

I don't know what any of this means. It could mean heaven and hell, it could mean brain activity slowing down. I don't know.

I grew up with a strange sense of what God is. My family owns a church. I've joined at least 4 other churches. And my mom goes to a different church. I read the bible a lot to. I don't like it when someone uses religion to hurt someone. That to me is evil in it's purest form. You hurt someone else for your own self gain.

I don't know. BTW, I have a little ghost story to. Yes, I DID see a ghost. If you wanna hear about that, give a post.

EDIT========================
That raises the bigger question. How did Cain get married? I believe that God JUST created humans in his own image (The Jews) but he made others first.

[SonicChaos7]

God is perceived as a male due to the power men had back in the times the Bible was first written. Men were the dominant sex, women were the house people that did nothing but the little homemaking stuff.

Anyway, God is what you believe Him to be. We each can't really dictate what He is because people will argue it because of different perspectives. But as Dren said, He is forgiving and He wouldn't cast us into eternal damnation just because we did some bad things in our lives.

About the parents punishing children thing. Children are punished by their parents (if punished at all) in order to keep them disciplined. Psychology- positive and negative reinforcement.

[drenrin2120]

Originally posted by SonicChaos7
God is perceived as a male due to the power men had back in the times the Bible was first written. Men were the dominant sex, women were the house people that did nothing but the little homemaking stuff.

Not entirely true. Before Christianity or catholicism, the female body, especially the womb, was pretty much worshipped.

[Archem]

Like Dren said, we'll know once we die. As for God being male or female, I don't think God has a specific gender, since we're all supposedly made in God's image. If we are truly made in God's likeness, that would either make God a true hemaphrodite (prob'ly not) or a neutral gender. And being an all-powerful holy entity, God wouldn't need sexual organs, thus, no gender.