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God
is one of many terms used to describe a perfect, supreme
being, generally believed to be the ruler or the creator
of, and/or immanent within, the universe. The concept of
a singular God is characteristic
of monotheism, but it is not always possible to draw a sharp
distinction between some forms of monotheism and some forms
of polytheism (see also henotheism).
Some
concepts of God may include anthropomorphic
attributes, while others hold it impossible or blasphemous
to imagine God in any physical form.
Some hold that God is necessarily
morally good (see summum bonum). Others feel that God
is beyond the understanding of human morality. Negative
theology argues that no true statements about attributes
of God may be made at all, and some
hold God to be beyond the understanding
of humanity altogether. Some mystical traditions ascribe
limits to God's powers, arguing that God's
supreme nature leaves no room for spontaneity.
A singular
God is necessarily unique (but see
Trinity, Dualism). Still, different traditions and understandings
of the concept may cause disagreement among believers regarding
the God revered by others. Belief
in a single God may give rise to
concepts of absolute morality, and also to a claim of exclusivity
(see Chosen people).
Some
espouse an exclusionist view, seeing the God
venerated by others with different beliefs as inferior or
nonexistent. Others hold an inclusionist view, assuming
the God venerated by others to be
the same God under a different name.
Many people hold personal, sometimes even secular interpretations
of God, typically in agreement with
a concept of an "Absolute Infinite".
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Others
are convinced that there is no God
and that the concept is simply an expression of a desire
for an explanation to those things mankind does not understand.
The
word God continues Old English/Germanic
god (guþ, gudis in Gothic, Gott in modern German).
The original meaning and etymology of the Germanic word
god have been hotly disputed, though most agree to a reconstructed
Proto-Indo-European form *?hutóm, which is a passive
perfect participle from the root *?hu-, which likely meant
"libation", "sacrifice". Compare:-
Vedic
Sanskrit hu- = "to sacrifice".
Greek khu-, kheu- = "to pour".
Common Germanic strong verb geutan (Anglo-Saxon geotan)
= "to pour", English in-got.
The connection between these meanings is likely via the
meaning "pour a libation".
Another
possible meaning of *?hutóm is "invocation",
related to Sanskrit huta.
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The
word God was used to represent Greek
theos, Latin deus in Bible translations, first in the Gothic
translation of the New Testament by Ulfilas.
Also
some people in the world, mainly Hindu, believe that the
word God, is actually an acronym (G.O.D.). The acronym stands
for Generator, Observer/Operator, Destroyer. This belief
although rare, is held quite dearly by some people.
The
generic term God is the proper English
name used for the deity of monotheistic faiths. Different
names for God exist within different
religious traditions.
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Allah—Islam/Arabic.
See also the Ninety-nine names of Allah
Jehovah, Yahweh (based on the Hebrew name YHVH (????) and
Elohim are some of the names used for God
in the Christian Bible
See The name of God in Judaism for
Jewish names of God. (Note: when written or typed as a proper
noun, some observant Jews will use the form "G-d"
so that "the written name of God cannot be desecrated".
Some Orthodox Jews consider this inappropriate because English
is not the Holy Language.)
The Holy Trinity (meaning The Father, the Son (Jesus Christ),
and the Holy Spirit/"Holy Ghost") - A name used
primarily in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayers and liturgy.
Most Hindus worship the personal form of God
or Saguna Brahman, or Hindu trinity, as Vishnu, Shiva, or
directly as Brahman through the Gayatri mantra. A common
prayer for Hindus is the Vishnu sahasranama, which is a
hymn describing the one thousand names of God.
Sikhs worship God with the name Waheguru.
Jah is the name of God in Rastafarianism.
God is called Xavier in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Some churches (United Church of Canada, Religious Science)
are using "the One" alongside "God"
as a more gender-neutral way of referring to God
(See also Oneness).
Theology
is the study of religious beliefs. Theologians attempt to
explicate (and in some cases systematize) beliefs; some
express their own experience of the divine. Theologians
ask questions such as: What is the nature of God? What does
it mean for God to be singular? If people believe in God
as a duality or trinity, what do these terms signify? Is
God transcendent, immanent, or some mix of the two? What
is the relationship between God and the universe, and God
and mankind?
Theism
holds that God is both transcendent
and immanent; thus, God is simultaneously infinite and in
some way present in the affairs of the world. Catholic theology
holds that God is infinitely simple and is outside of time.
Most theists hold that God is omnipotent,
omniscient, and benevolent, although this belief raises
questions about God's responsibility for evil and suffering
in the world. Some theists ascribe to God a self-conscious
or purposeful limiting of omnipotence, omniscience, or benevolence.
Open Theism, by contrast, asserts that God has limits. "Theism"
is sometimes used to refer in general to any belief in a
god or gods, i.e., monotheism or polytheism.
Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent:
God exists, but does not intervene
in the world beyond what was necessary for God to create
it. In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and does not
literally answer prayers or cause miracles to occur.
Monotheism holds that there is only one God, and/or that
the one true God is worshipped in
different religions under different names. It is important
to note, however, that monotheists of one religion can,
and often do, consider the monotheistic god of a different
religion to be a false god. For instance, many Christian
fundamentalists consider the God
of Islam (Allah) to be a false god or demon (although theologians
and linguists argue that "Allah" is merely the
Arabic word for "God," and not the literal name
of a specifically Muslim god). Many Jews consider the messiah
of Christianity (Jesus) to be a false god and some monotheists
(notably fundamentalist Christians) hold that there is one
triune God, and that all gods of other religions are actually
demons in disguise (as in 2nd Corinthians 11 (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Bible%2C_English%2C_King_James%2C_2_Corinthians#Chapter_11)
verse 14). Eastern religious believers and Liberal Christians
are more likely to assume those of other faiths worship
the same God as they.
Pantheism holds that God is the universe and the universe
is God. Panentheism holds that God
contains, but is not identical to, the Universe. The distinctions
between the two are subtle, and many consider them unhelpful.
Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, paints a pantheistic/panentheistic
view of God, which has wide acceptance in Hasidic Judaism,
particularly from their founder The Baal Shem Tov. It is
also the view of the Liberal Catholic Church, Theosophy,
Hinduism, some divisions of Buddhism, and Taoism, along
with many varying denomintions and individuals within denominations.
Pandeism combines the major elements of deism and pantheism,
and holds that a transcendent God existed before the universe
was created, but that this God became the universe in the
course of creating it, and thereby ceased to be an active
participant in its operations.
Dystheism is a form of theism which holds that God is malevolent
as a consequence of the problem of evil. Dystheistic speculation
is common in theology, but there is no known church of practicing
dystheists. See also Satanism.
Most believers allow for the existence of other, less powerful
spiritual beings, and give them names such as angels, saints,
Djinn, demons, and devas.
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Conceptions
of God
Jewish, Christian and Muslim conceptions
Judaism, Christianity and Islam see God as a being who created
the world and rules over the universe. God is usually held
to have the properties of holiness (separate from sin and
incorruptible), justness (fair, right, and true in all His
judgements), sovereignty (unthwartable in His will), omnipotence
(all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), omnibenevolence
(all-loving), and omnipresence (all-present).
Jews,
Christians and Muslims often conceive of God as a personal
God, with a will and personality. However, many medieval
rationalist philosophers of these religions felt that one
should not view God as personal, and that such personal
descriptions of God are only meant as metaphors. Some within
these three faiths still accept these views as valid, although
many of the laity today do not have a wide awareness of
them.
In Eastern
Christianity, it remains essential that God be personal;
hence it speaks of the three persons of the Trinity. It
also emphasizes that God has a will, and that God the Son
has two wills, divine and human, though these are never
in conflict. The personhood of God and of all human people
is essential to the concept of theosis or deification.
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Biblical definition of God
16th century Christian view of Genesis: God creates Adam
(Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel)The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
characterizes God by these attributes: "The Lord, the
Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding
in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love
for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and
sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's
children, to the third and the fourth generation."
(Exodus 34:6–7)
The
Hebrew Bible contains no systematic theology: No attempt
is made to give a philosophical or rigorous definition of
God, nor of how God acts in the world. It does not explicitly
describe God's nature, exemplified by God's assertion in
Exodus that "you cannot see my face; for man shall
not see me and live". Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are
the words omnipotent, omniscient, or omnibenevolent used
to define God in a systematic sense.
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Although
scripture does not describe God systematically, however,
it does provide a poetic depiction of God and His relationship
with people. According to the biblical historian Yehezkal
Kaufmann, the essential innovation of Biblical theology
was to posit a God that cares about people, and that cares
about whether people care about Him. Most people believe
that the Bible should be viewed as humanity's view of God,
but theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel described the Biblical
God as "anthropopathic", which means that one
should read the Bible as God's view of humanity, and not
as humanity's view of God.
Similarly,
the New Testament contains no systematic theology: no attempt
is made to give a philosophical or rigorous definition of
God, nor of how God acts in the world. The New Testament
does, however, provide an implicit theology as it teaches
that God became human while remaining fully God, in the
person of Jesus, and that he subsequently sent the Holy
Spirit. In this view, God becomes someone that can be seen
and touched, and may speak and act in a manner easily perceived
by humans, while also remaining transcendent and invisible.
This appears to be a radical departure from the concepts
of God found in Hebrew Bible. The New Testament's statements
regarding the nature of God were eventually developed into
the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Kabbalistic definition of God
Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) teaches that God is neither
matter nor spirit. Rather God is the creator of both, but
is himself neither. But if God is so different from his
creation, how can there be any interaction between the Creator
and the created? This question prompted Kabbalists to envision
two aspects of God, (a) God himself, who in the end is unknowable,
and (b) the revealed aspect of God who created the universe,
preserves the universe, and interacts with mankind in a
personal way. Kabbalists believe that these two aspects
are not contradictory but complement one another.
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Negative theology
Main article: Negative theology.
Many
early Christian saints and medieval philosophers argued
for apophatic theology, the idea of approaching a knowledge
of God through negative attributes. For example, we should
not say that God exists in the usual sense of the term;
all we can safely say is that God is not nonexistent. We
should not say that God is wise, but we can say that God
is not ignorant. We should not say that God is One, but
we can state that there is no multiplicity in God's being.
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God as Unity or Trinity
Jews, Muslims, and a small fraction of Christians are unitarian
monotheists. The vast majority of Christians have been and
still are Trinitarian monotheists.
Unitarian
monotheists hold that there is only one "person"
(so to speak), or one basic substance, in God. Some adherents
of this position consider Trinitarianism to be a form of
polytheism.
Trinitarian monotheists believe in one God that exists as
three distinct persons who share the same substance/essence;
the Christian version of this is called the Trinity, the
Hindu version Trimurti. Trinitarians hold that the three
persons have the same purpose, holiness, and sovereignty,
and therefore each can be worshiped as God, without violating
the idea that there is only one God to which worship belongs.
Mormons believe that there are three separate divine personages.
One of these personages is a spirit without a body referred
to as the Holy Ghost. The other two personages are spirits
with perfected or glorified (often called celestial) bodies
referred to as Heavenly Father (or less commonly "Elohim")
and his son, Jesus Christ. Mormons hold that God is a Holy
Man who advanced to his divine status through a repeatable
process of progression. They believe that by following their
religion's teachings, humans can literally become gods (sometimes
phrased as "become like Heavenly Father") at some
point after death and resurrection; this is also called
Exaltation.
Rastafarians believe that Haile Selassie is both God the
Father and God the Son, made manifest in human flesh as
the reincarnation of Jesus, while the Holy Spirit is seen
to dwell within all believers (of Rastafari), and within
all people (believed by some).
Hasidic Jews hold that there are ten Sefirot (emanations)
of God. Each of these are more distinct than a characteristic,
but less distinct than a separate personage.
Monism is the metaphysical position that all is of one essential
essence, substance or energy, that being a pantheist, or
panentheist, immanent God. Monism can be inclusive of other
interpretations of God.
Dualism is the idea of two, nearly equal divine entities,
one being the good God, and the other being an evil god,
or Satan. All beings are under the influence of one side,
or the other, if they know it or not. Zoroastrianism is
an example of dualism.
Aristotelian definition of God
Main article: Aristotelian view of God.
In his
Metaphysics, Aristotle discusses the meaning of "being
as being". Aristotle holds that "being" primarily
refers to the Unmoved Movers, and assigned one of these
to each movement in the heavens. Each Unmoved Mover continuously
contemplates its own contemplation, and everything that
fits the second meaning of "being" by having its
source of motion in itself, moves because the knowledge
of its Mover causes it to emulate this Mover (or should).
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The Ultimate
Arguably, Eastern conceptions of The Ultimate (this, too,
has many different names) are not conceptions of a personal
divinity, though certain Western conceptions of what is
at least called "God" (e.g., Spinoza's pantheistic
conception and various kinds of mysticism) resemble Eastern
conceptions of The Ultimate.
Philologically,
Gk. theos is said to be akin to Zeus, the chief god in Greek
mythology, who has Dios in a genitive form. L. Diespiter
means Jupiter, chief god in L. mythology, dies + pater,
day + father. In Skr. deva is a god, as derived from the
root div, heaven, and diu denoting day, shine and brightness
(L. niter).
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Hindu Conceptions of God
In Shaivism and Vaishnavism, Hindus believe that God, whether
in the form of Shiva or Vishnu has six attributes. However,
the actual number of auspicious qualities of God, are countless,
with the following six qualities being the most important.
The number six is invariably given, but the individual attributes
variously listed are Jnana (Omniscience), defined as the
power to know about all beings simultaneously; Aishvarya
(Sovereignty), which consists in unchallenged rule over
all; Shakti (Energy), or power, which is the capacity to
make the impossible possible; Bala (Strength), which is
the capacity to support everything by His will and without
any fatigue; Virya (Vigour), or valour which indicates the
power to retain immateriality as the Supreme Being in spite
of being the material cause of mutable creations; and Tejas
(Splendour), which expresses His self-sufficiency and the
capacity to overpower everything by His spiritual effulgence.;
cited from Bhakti Schools of Vedanta, by Swami Tapasyananda.
Other six characteristics are listed as Jnana (Omniscience),
Vairagya (Dispassion), Yasas (Fame), Aisvarya (Sovereignty),
Sri (Glory), Dharma (Righteousness). Other important qualities
attributed to God are Gambhirya (inestimatble grandeur),
Audarya (generosity), and Karunya (compassion).
Chanted prayers, or mantras, are central to Hindu worship.
Among the most chanted mantras in Hinduism are the Vishnu
sahasranama (a prayer to Vishnu that dates from the time
of the Mahabharata and describes Him as the Universal Brahman),
Shri Rudram (a Vedic hymn to Rudra, an earlier aspect of
Shiva that also describes Him as Brahman) and the Gayatri
mantra, (another Vedic hymn that initially was meant as
a prayer to the Sun, an aspect of Brahman but has other
interpretations. It is now interpreted as a prayer to the
impersonal absolute Brahman). Another famous hymn, Lalitha
Sahasranama, describes the 1000 names of Devi, worshipped
as God the Divine Mother, or God's Shakti or Power personified
by Hindus.
Modern views
Mathematical definitions
The mathematician Georg Cantor identified God with the mathematical
concept of the Absolute Infinite.
Kurt
Gödel's "ontological proof" is a mathematical
formulation of Saint Anselm's ontological argument.
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Process philosophy and Open Theism definition of God
Process theology is a school of thought influenced by the
metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
(1861–1947). Open Theism, a theological movement that
began in the 1990s, is similar, but not identical, to Process
theology.
In both
views, God is not omnipotent in the classical sense of a
coercive being. Reality is not made up of material substances
that endure through time, but serially-ordered events, which
are experiential in nature. The universe is characterized
by process and change carried out by the agents of free
will. Self-determination characterizes everything in the
universe, not just human beings. God and creatures co-create.
God cannot force anything to happen, but rather only influence
the exercise of this universal free will by offering possibilities.
See the entries on process theology, panentheism, and Open
theism.
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Posthuman God
Similar to this theory is the belief or aspiration that
humans will create a God entity, emerging from an artificial
intelligence. Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction writer,
said in an interview that: It may be that our role on this
planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Another
variant on this hypothesis is that humanity or a segment
of humanity will create or evolve into a posthuman God by
itself; for some examples, see cosmotheism, transhumanism,
technological singularity.
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