God undefined
It is very possible to define God but first it might be helpful to undefine God. These definitions come from many sources but all run counter to God's own definition. Unfortunately, the definition most popular is, a supreme being. A Supreme Being with S on the chest of his underwear who turns out fully dressed as a replica of a man in a red suit with white trimming. This jolly fat man will change spots and get you if you do something wrong. He has to be persuaded to notice us, hopefully to help us in individually dire situations. He also is behind all the wreck and ruin via the weather since many think he is in control of everything undefined. A so-called act of God is usually a nasty surprise or a bitter pill to be swallowed, hook line and sinker as it were. He is arbitrary, he is cryptic, he does not reveal his motives until it is too late to react to them, and this definition is just in many churches, nothing to do with barrooms or colleges. No wonder then that atheism is so strong in colleges, if you are educated you are an atheist, with strawmen views to oppose like that. But principally speaking any definition of God, more often unstated, that assumes unsympathetic attributes attributable to any number of sympathetic persons all without powers of attorney is the straw definition.
The title of this blog, God is the Spiritual Personification of Existence, is based on the first definition perception of ancient writers in the dawn of our known history.
Today's Supreme Being is not the original definition. First report accepted was God defined Himself as Existence. "I am that I am." He did not create existence, He is the fountainhead of Existence. Therefore, God is not only understood to be a Spirit, but also as the spiritual 'personification' of existence. This is a definition, not a theory.
There are both concrete and abstract forces, the seen and the unseen, such as gravity. There are spirits in bottles, spirits in words, spirits in us. The spirit animates everything, from gravity to emotion, as well as semantically. This blog is about defining the usually undefined term God, not religion, but what is meant by the term God.
There is one blog touching on religion, Church and Faith Pulpit Rock, about Christian atheism found in many churches, which themselves quite often have less to do with God or even religion for that matter, than they do with social entertainment.
The blog linked below, Specific Theory of Existence, takes us to essay attempts suggested by former atheists who are sensitive to atheist thought. They are exploring views relating to seen and unseen physics, the known unknown, with the unknown not yet known.
Other blogs, like Memory Stones about cemeteries, touch on other subjects of passing interest. That link and others can be found below. They are hosted by Spencer Corkum for the Sunset Strollers and the QuokeBlokes. They are not carved in 'stone' but may be continuously edited and updated. Davin Paralee, representing the Paraclete, is Editor in Charge.
All things seen come from the unseen and will return there. Since we know so little of all that can be known, in order to make a decision now it must be made in faith because we are deciding without all the facts. There are those who wish to survive the falling away of the body and those who desire slipping into oblivion which is a destruction of that which existed. This too is a spirit and cannot die.
Generalities speak to generalities and specifics to specifics. To intertwine the two is jumping categories, and a fallacy in logic.
An example of what a man says is an illustration of his argument, but it is not proof.
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