God is a common term that defines life. The term God defines life itself. Who we are, what we are, how we are born, grow, and die, and is the source underlining how we think, what we think, feel, our motivations, caring for our children, being good parents, experiencing the act of creation. God is life.
I like my signature because Albert Whent describes that "God is in the food they ate, the water they drank, the air they breathed, the earth they trod and died on, the sleep they slept, and the dreams they drempt, the everywhere and the everything."
He isn't speaking of animism and pantheism, he says God (the Creator) is in the mundane things that nourishes us, the source of our birth--the water we drink, the place where we die--the earth we die on.
Some say God is love, well, we find love when we are living to our full potential, so I can see that. Some say God is the Creator, I can somewhat see that since the source of life is also life itself (something did not come from nothing), Nichiren Buddhist say life is the Mystic Law (which is the Wisdom of the Buddha), I see that in we find wisdom rather than just knowledge in how we live, interact with ourselves and others. Some say God is the universe, although very newagish, I can see that since He, if you like, is a part of everything.
I lean towards animism and a little of pantheism in their view of God except for in the Santeria faith, which I'm looking at, God or Olofin is a Creator. He gave birth to children, different parts of creation, water, sun, and so forth...and these parts/people--the Orishas--are embedded in Olofin (parents are part of their child and visa versa). So we see the Creator in creation (in a abrahamic wording).
Yemaja gave birth to the world. Her ashe-spirit--is of the water and we are born there. So, if I were to define God, I'd define Him through Yemaja for she is the parent that gives birth to life while "God" her parent, is part of her, being life itself.
Unfortunately, I cannot say this is how Santeria sees this 100 percent since I have not gone to my consultation until tomorrow. In general, we personify God so we can identify with Him.. but to take off all the stories, prophecies, et cetera... He's all there is--nothing exists outside of Him.
Inspired by a thread in Christianity DIR. I am interested in hearing what you believers in God actually envision God to be... A person? Does God have form? Etc.
Whenever I think of God, I always imagine an abstract ball of information, all of this existence is, at the most basic level, made of pure information in my opinion, and that is God. But instead, all of this information is just one being, experiencing it all at once. All of time and all of space all at one point in space and one point in time.
