Who is God? What does He look like?
66My personal belief is that God is the entity that created this Universe. So, in that sense, God can be viewed as being the creator of everything we see around us; the planets, the stars, all things that exists in this Universe. Of course, being from a scientific bent of mind, I have questioned the existence of a God many times in my life. However, I've always come to the conclusion that God has to exist. The Big Bang Theory leads one to believe that there was a starting point (a point when the Universe came into being). The fact that something triggered a small volume of matter to explode and expand out and fill in what we know as the Universe today is something one can't get one's head around.
Why did that first singularity (or initial point) start? Was someone controlling it? If it was automated - who programmed it? Can one imagine something starting and continuing and possibly contracting again on its own?? There has to be an entity (God) that controls or regulates all of this, or can one assume that this is just random madness? Personally, I find it difficult to believe that all of this (creation of the Universe and the millions of other things that followed that creation) happened by chance or randomly. So, I do believe God has to exist and that God is the creator.
Personally, I do not think that God has any form. In that respect, I don't think one can make any assertion on how He looks or could look. I don't think we can look at God in the conventional sense - as in comparing it to the human situation. I don't think God has any gender too, even though we primarily refer to God in the male form.
I think of God as being pure cosmic energy. Just as energy can have no form, I don't think God has any form too. Of course, its possible that God can assume multiple forms, including the human form. So, perhaps a human would see God in human form. Maybe an alien could see God in that particular alien species form. So, I don't think God has a fixed form per se and therefore one cannot firmly say what God would look like.
Thanks Al for your comments and kind words. Always nice to hear your point of view.
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I agree with Mystique1957. Love and peace!
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I know everyone has a different opinion,but I say God is someone who was once a live and died for us because of the choices we made and one day he will return to get his people
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I just say "Exalted is He and high above what they say by great sublimity." if you ask your self so many questions you will be like who have strayed, so they cannot [find] a way.and for me Good is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. God guides to His light whom He wills. And God presents examples for the people, and God is Knowing of all things.
I have to stand with Stephen Hawking on this one. He has written that everything that happens in the universe and at the quantum mechanics level can be explained without inserting an extra something typically referred to as God. Science is just beginning to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding us. (We lost about two thousand years of discovery thanks to the Church and the notion of heresy.) We know there are black holes but we don't know where all the energy they suck up finally ends up (if anywhere ... another dimension?). Are there white holes somewhere that we haven't uncovered? The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and we think this may be due to dark energy -- the existence of which is only now being detected. And what if the universe expanded until everything turned cold and dark ... would gravity succeed in bringing all this matter back to an infinitesimal dot that (again) exploded in a nanosecond to fill a great portion of nothingness with hot, invisible gases? Perhaps the only constant is expansion and contraction. What then of "meaning or change?" By observing life we can see that it tends to follow a pattern of developing into more and more complex forms. Even our brains are composed of millions of single cells that work together to allow us to do things like talk and chew gum at the same time. We have concluded that we have this thing called consciousness even though no one can hold more than three thoughts in their mind at any given moment. I think man created God so that our lives appear to have meaning when, if fact, they have none (other than to just survive and replicate). People are terrified of death and insist there must be more for us on a personal level. But, the universe doesn't give a twit about anyone on a personal level. The earth has survived at least two extinction events, and eventually another will occur. Stuff is flying around without order or symmetry throughout the cosmos. It doesn't seem fair that the chaos in the universe can destroy entire planets -- even those inhabited by sentient beings, but it is probably a fairly common occurrence. And once we die, the consciousness and self-awareness we all hold so preciously winks out like a computer hard drive that gets unplugged. If God is nothing but a self-concocted big daddy in the sky, we might as well offer our prayers to a "pet rock." No one can prove/disprove the existence of God, but scientists will continue to move forward in their macro/micro discoveries under the assumption that the universe is self-propelling. The absence of God is a blow to the ego, but one can still have one's mind cluttered with all kinds of mumbo-jumbo by joining any of a thousand religions or sects -- if you need this for "spiritual guidance." I have searched in vain for most of my life for a tiny bit of proof that any kind of wiser and greater intelligence is "out there" and it cares about us on an individual level. All I can see is chaos within order, and order inside of chaos -- the ancient yin/yang explanation for the reconciliation between opposites that permeates all things. Maybe miracles are nothing more than the occurrence of the "uncertainty principle" with so many variables at play simultaneously they awe us into imagining the Divine.
Rjbatty, thank you for taking the time to expound on this subject. I appreciate it greatly. I have an open mind on this and can understand your arguments. I have myself wondered along the lines you've stated. Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your views!!
Mystique1957 2 years ago
I am impressed at nobody making a comment on this interesting subject. Probably religious views have a lot to do with it. I share your opinion. God has no form or gender, it is energy, it is love, it is understanding and all the good things in life and afterlife. Everyone is free to imagine God as they feel He/She is. For me it is God Father-Mother! Beyond all that, it is impossible to understand the infinity with a finite mind...
Interesting hub, Shil!
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Al