by Fan Ma

Created on: November 10, 2009   Last Updated: November 11, 2009

As the title states, God is a presence. God does not have a conscience nor does it decide if people go up or down upon their deaths.

To write about what God is is different from writing about what Man says about God. First, the idea of God manifesting himself or itself as the bearded Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit is a blatant proof of what Man is trying to make of God. God is a divine force that is the universe, everything that dictates how the world is: God is the laws of physics, the matter consisting everything around, the Creation or Big Bang etc.

God is the very fabric of all that exists and perhaps all that does not exist. In other words, it is the divine thing that keeps this world together. How can the presence of God be described? To answer this question is to also this one: "What makes our universe?" Therefore, God is the immaterial (i.e., space), the material (i.e. rocks) and all that is in between (i.e. light). God is also time. God is everything, the universe and its creation (the Big Bang).

Why should the preceding arguments coupled with some examples be a rational explanation? For the reason that it has proof, these explanations are presentable. As the language used in this text, God itself is nothing but a word created by humans to designate something divine, something that has the control over everything. Hence, when speaking of God, one is bound partially to what Man says about God. Back to the question, if Man said that God is inside all of us, inside every tree, in every rock, in every stream, in every cloud... God is therefore matter. If the terminology "God" implies the creator of the Universe, thus it is the Big Bang.

God is everything, everywhere and every moment. In the book Angels and Demons, Dan Brown writes that religion and science are two languages telling the same tale. If God is a word created by man, than there should be some statements that are logical and concord perfectly with what science has to say in what Man says about God. Let us imagine the following scenario. The priest says "God is the Holy Spirit in all of us.

- No, matter is in all of us, replies the professor.

- My son, He has been here and in everything ever since the Moment of Creation. That is when He said "Let there be light" and, little lamb, there was light and there is still light!

- Preposterous! The energy created at the Big Bang transformed into matter according to Einstein's E=mc2 formula and that is what we have here today. Matter is still constantly transforming itself to energy and vice-versa like in a nuclear disintegration."

What these two gentlemen do not know is they are just repeating themselves with different words. In general this is what they say: God is the Creation, where he appeared as light and produced matter, the building blocks of our universe. God is time, God is space and God is the laws that govern our world (i.e. laws of gravity). You can touch God by touching anything around you, but you cannot understand it with mere words. God is here, there and everywhere.

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