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Who is God?

It seems the best way to begin this topic is to make a point about preconceptions. Firstly, we are not Gods ourselves, and so we often leap to inaccurate conculsions due to personal bias, a lack of education or available information, our own human limitations, call it what you will. The writer, however, feels that such preconceptions are a negative force when seeking truth. As such you are politely requested to have an open mind, to prepare to be challenged, or to simply not read this article. The writer intends to better understand his God, and not to offend. Thank you.

As I'm sure you will agree, such an over simplified question demands some qualification before it can be properly addressed, so let's get started:

What is God?

To begin at the beginning, as it were, we should first collate a few pieces of information. Firstly we must address the undeniable spanner-in-the-works that challenges our most basic Christian concepts, namely the preponderance of religious belief systems in the world. This is a subject that in itself warrants lifetimes of study, as such I will be forced to wildly generalise in the name of expedience. Apologies in advance. Apologies also for my Christian bias.

To answer this question let us summarise qualities and concepts that appear (more or less) uniform to religious concepts:

God is the creator. Wether this be the Christian Creator of the heavens and the earth in their entirety, or simply the creator of humanity depends upon the religion in question. In its briefest form God is THE Creator.

God is immortal. Immortal? Maybe the wrong wording or even the wrong concept; God is independent of such earthly concerns as birth, ageing and death, possibly independent of the effects of time and/or space. By 'independent of' the writer means unnafected by, immune to or, simply, that God finds these concepts totally irrelevent.

God is everywhere. Again, space is irrelevent to our God.

God is everything. Same concept.

God is the Alpha and Omega. This means to say that God is the beginning and the end of all things; the one uncreated creator - nothing could exist without god, nothing can end without God. Many religions believe in vast numbers of gods- be it a pantheon or a veritable managerie, from Ancient Egypt to modern space alien religions, these concepts vary depending upon how far up the tree you must go to find something you yourself would accept as a God. The statement that God is the beggining and the end means that the God we are discussing

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