What is God to you? (Believers only)

Is God 'Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love' as Blake wrote? Or do you have perhaps a different conception of God – do you picture a person you love or have loved and lost, or is your God even a violent God, or flawed in other ways?

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Is God 'Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love' as Blake wrote? Or do you have perhaps a different conception of God – do you picture a person you love or have loved and lost, or is your God even a violent God, or flawed in other ways?

Creator who loves me . . .

The Near Genius 😏

HalleluYaH !!!
Praise the LORD !
Holy! Holy! Holy!

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Is God 'Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love' as Blake wrote? Or do you have perhaps a different conception of God – do you picture a person you love or have loved and lost, or is your God even a violent God, or flawed in other ways?

All-inclusive. Everything that I could ever need and more.
He is the "I AM" which I take to mean He is everything that I require.

He is - absolutely. He is everything we need.
"I AM" in an absolute sense means He IS and we are not.

Only He is and is everything for us.
Everything positive He is the reality of.
Whatever I lack, in Christ, He IS.

The typology in the Old Testament has as its largest symbol of Jesus Christ "the Good Land" - it is the Promise Land.
The all-inclusive land with everything God's people could possibly need is Christ.

Originally posted by sonship
The all-inclusive land with everything God's people could possibly need is Christ.

Cuba?

A fairy tale figure for grown-ups.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
A fairy tale figure for grown-ups.

Hey, thought us non-believers (aka - Men of wisdom) were not allowed to post in this thread? 😲

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Hey, thought us non-believers (aka - Men of wisdom) were not allowed to post in this thread? 😲

Ha! Tell me not to do something and I do it. Tell me to do something, and I just flat out refuse to lift a finger.

I make my own rules and don't answer to The Man.

I'm a wild one.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
Ha! Tell me not to do something and I do it. Tell me to do something, and I just flat out refuse to lift a finger.

I make my own rules and don't answer to The Man.

I'm a wild one.

Sir, do not send me a cheque for 12 hundred pounds.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
Ha! Tell me not to do something and I do it. Tell me to do something, and I just flat out refuse to lift a finger.

I make my own rules and don't answer to The Man.

I'm a wild one.

Don't hold your breath for evermore.

Originally posted by DeepThought
Don't hold your breath for evermore.

That could prevent the sending of a cheque for 12 hundred pounds. 😀

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sir, do not send me a cheque for 12 hundred pounds.

You thought I was stoopid and was now gonna send you a cheque for 12 hundred Euro's-less-intelligent-nephews, because you told me not to, didn't you?

Think again buddy. I wasn't born again yesterday.

You can, however, expect a new boiler to arrive any day now.

Insert that in your pipe and inhale it.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
You thought I was stoopid and was now gonna send you a cheque for 12 hundred Euro's-less-intelligent-nephews, because you told me not to, didn't you?

Think again buddy. I wasn't born again yesterday.

You can, however, expect a new boiler to arrive any day now.

Insert that in your pipe and inhale it.

Horrah! Will tell the cat we'll once again have hot water.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Horrah! Will tell the cat we'll once again have hot water.

That's no way to talk about the missus, good sir.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
That's no way to talk about the missus, good sir.

You mean the Rottweiler? 😲


*Edit - I do not mean I am literally married to a Rottweiler.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
*Edit - I do not mean I am literally married to a Rottweiler.

Too late. What has been said, can not be unsaid.

Does she bite?