by Reginaldcdotme

Created on: May 14, 2009   Last Updated: May 26, 2009

We so often get caught up in defining God. Through the centuries the perception of God has changed for man. Man has usually bestowed the characteristics that he admires or fears on his God. I hear people call God vengeful, jealous, loving, and benevolent and any other number of human characteristics. God can lift you up, God can strike you down. God can Bless you God can curse you. So it got me to thinking, who or what is God? I mean really. If I go by the characteristics placed oh him by different people I would have to say God suffers from multiple personality disorder. According to people God changes at a whim, so he has to also be bi-polar with bouts of mania and depression. Is God a person that sits on high, or is he/she/it something else?

Science is now acknowledging that there is an intelligent field that permeates all of creation. Stephen Hawking a world famous physicist calls it the mind of God, Greg Braden a philosopher and scientist calls it the divine matrix. Max Planck, the father of modern physics, in 1944 identified this field as the matrix, he says that all matter the stuff our world is made of originates and exists by virtue of a force, we must assume behind this force is the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck is one of the most renowned physicists to ever live. Was this science acknowledging the existence of God? They all agree that it is not a being.

Jesus had a name for this divine mind. John 14:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. He called it spirit. Genesis 1:2, Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Of course Jesus spoke of it parables and figuratively as father. The Genesis story of creation is another parable and spirit is mentioned here (Genesis 1:2) the very first time in the bible.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: "The O[ld] T[estament] clearly does not envisage God's spirit as a person . . . God's spirit is simply God's power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly. ... The majority of N[ew] T[estament] texts reveal God's spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God. ... On the whole, the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power. ... Nowhere in the Old Testament

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