Curious George
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Curious George >>god = an intelligent, conscious, immortal entity<<
"intelligent", "conscious" and "immortal" are adjectives. What noun do they modify? "God"? But that's the row of letters that you claim to be defining. You say "'God' is an entity". Are you thinking of something for "entity" to refer to? "Entity" is just a catch-all word, like "thing", "something", "thingamajig", "doohickey" etc. Just saying "entity", "thing", or "thingamajig" doesn't describe anything to think of. What am I supposed to think of? A finite-sized chunk of matter? I don't know what to think of.
Curious George>>...that has a degree of control over all things in the universe and more control over at least one specific aspect of the universe than any mortal thing.<<
But all I can see that you've done is to put verb and adjectives and verb and adjective phrases along with "God", "thing" or "entity" and to claim that such verbs, adjectives and phrases have some defined noun "God" to modify. When you define "plumber" you don't say "a thing that plumbs", or "an entity that plumbs". You say (or certainly imply) "a HUMAN that plumbs". We know what a HUMAN is, so we know what entity to think of doing the plumbing. To recap: When you say "a HUMAN that plumbs" we know what you're talking about. Then after telling us that you're talking about a HUMAN, you can then go ahead and tell us about the plumbing that the HUMAN does, to distinguish the plumber from other humans.
So tell us what 'entity' you're talking about. Please don't try to go telling "what an entity DOES" and think you're telling "what an entity IS". Doing so does not define an entity if you haven't told us (or implied) what entity, if any, that you're talking about, so we can think of or imagine it. Only when you've done that, can you tell us 'what it does' to distinguish it from other entities.
I must question your implied claim that you are able to think of or to imagine any entity to label "God" that Christians are talking about when they utter the sound "God" or write that row of letters.
Cheers to you too.
Those adjectives referred to entity not to god. And while you are want to label "entity" as a catch all like "thing," i would point out that yes all entities are things but not all things are entities. I think you are going to have to elaborate on your exception that you seem to take with my coherent definition.