Question:
Is God made of matter, energy or both?
2009-07-13 05:32:57 UTC
If God exists, he must be made of either matter or energy, or a mixture.

what is he made of?

and how can observe his presence?
21 answers:
gutbucket
2009-07-13 05:36:32 UTC
All gods exist only in the imagination.
2009-07-13 06:29:43 UTC
You seek to confine God by the universe's standards, when a creator of the universe would obviously be outside of the universe.



Thus, we cannot define God with physics, because God exists outside of physics. He can exist within physics if He wants, but that is because He is above and in control of physics, as He created it.



We can observe His presence, though. God is many things. For example, the Bible says God is love. Now we have no evolutionary purpose to show love--whether that means giving a hobo $5 or marrying an ugly spouse or loving a naughty child. Survival of the fittest advises humans against all three of these actions, yet they can occur easily within human behavior. Animals do not perform these actions though--animal altruism is limited to what benefit the "hobo" would give to the community, not an intrinsic value of life. Animals do not mate with inferior specimens, the strongest ones attract the mates. A naughty child? Well many animals eat their children.



So what makes humans love? Well we are created in God's image. We already covered how God does not have to exist in physics, so "image" does not have to refer to God's face. Does He even have a face? Does us having His image mean He has a nose and a mouth and eyebrows? No. His image means His spirit. He gave us souls and consciences and thought and meaning, which are His attributes that we inherited. That's what makes humans special.



So love comes from that. This accounts for human behavior which cannot be explained by natural selection--art, for example. Why in the world would we create art or music? It has no function but to satisfy a creative spark within humanity. A spark which we inherit from God.



Does anything else on Earth admire a sunset? Write poetry? Ask questions? Feel guilt? Feel love?



We can observe Him if we look. People who find no evidence are not truly looking.
jennabee
2009-07-13 05:51:14 UTC
God just is. He is everything and He is everywhere. If you want to observe his presence, just take a step back and observe the beauty in life. Evil is the absence of God, so stay away from the negative things and you will see Him. It's all about Faith. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Sentinel
2009-07-13 05:41:27 UTC
As far as we can understand God is spirit and we really know nothing about this state of being as science cannot penetrate what is spirit.

We can say that God is not composed of any created matter in the universe as He is it`s Creator, it took God(the Son) to become a human being in order for humanity to relate to the divine nature, and even then we do not know everything about God only that which is necessary.
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2009-07-13 05:40:50 UTC
Of course God exists! HE is a supernatural being and is not made of any mixture, texture or energy, HE is a spirit.
Illuminator
2009-07-13 05:41:26 UTC
One of the sophisticated concepts used by great Christian theologians is that of "The Ground of Being." This concept indicates not that God is the fact of things existing, but that God is the basis for the existence of all things. God is more fundamental to existing things than anything else. So fundamental to the existence of all things is God, that God can be thought of as the basis upon which things exist, the ground their being. To say that God is The ground of being or being itself, is to say that there is something we can sense that is so special about the nature of being that it hints at this fundamental reality upon which all else is based.





The phrases "Ground of Being" and "Being itself" are basically the same concept. Tillich used both at different times, and other theologians such as John McQuarrey prefer "Being Itself," but they really speak to the same concept. Now skeptics are always asking "how can god be being?" I think this question comes from the fact that the term is misleading. The term "Being itself" gives one the impression that God is the actual fact of "my existence," or the existence of my flowerbed, or any object one might care to name. Paul Tillich, on the other hand, said explicitly (in Systematic Theology Vol. I) that this does not refer to an existential fact but to an ontological status. What is being said is not that God is the fact of the being of some particular object, but, that he is the basis upon which being proceeds and upon which objects participate in being. In other words, since God exists forever, nothing else can come to be without God's will or thought; and since there can't even be a potential for any being without God's thought, all potentialities for being arise in the "mind of God" then in that sense God is actually "Being Itself." I think "Ground of Being" is a less confusing term. God is the ground upon which all being is based and from which all being proceeds.
E P
2009-07-13 15:19:09 UTC
God is Spirit.

He is Self-existent. To say that He was made implies a maker. God has no maker.
2009-07-13 05:37:33 UTC
1 - matter and energy are interchangeable. They're really the same thing. E=mc^2 and all that. Think of matter as frozen energy.



#2 - God seems to be made of nothing but thoughts.
James T
2009-07-13 05:41:21 UTC
I think God would have to be everything, matter, energy, and time and all else.



The First law of thermodynamics.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms (including form of matter).
Duncan
2009-07-13 05:49:07 UTC
People use god as an answer. Humans strive for answers to how the world works around us, we don't have all the anwers so we (humans) CREATE one. That answer we create is God.



So essentially God is merely an anwer we have created to our unanswerable questions.
June smiles
2009-07-13 05:56:56 UTC
Guess we'll have to wait and see for that one. We know He is a thinking God, so, it seems to me there would be material substance, but maybe not,
محمد يحب نعيمة
2009-07-13 05:41:55 UTC
nice try but God is not "made of" anything. He has always Been and will always Be. the things you mentioned are creations of His. The Creator is not of the Creation!
rain
2009-07-13 05:37:23 UTC
god is made of nothing and everything...the only way to observe him to to die and go to heaven or become a prophet....i would suggest the prophet
2009-07-13 05:50:19 UTC
Dear Friend, I would like to ask you if atheism is true, I blame nature and/or the world for all the seething problems experienced by the world. I would still believe in an almighty, personal, loving and just God because that “illusion” itself brings so much joy, peace and comfort in my life that even though knowing that my life here is ultimately dust, I lived a life that is worth it. Atheism ultimately has nothing but utterly dark hopelessness to offer the world when the fleeting pleasures of this world have lost their appeal and man reaches satiety point and/or continual frustrating discontent for more and more. Nothing fills that dreaded vacuum inside of us. Many who have enjoyed all the riches, sex, and all the pleasures money can buy in this life have committed suicide or have ended up completely broken on the inside saying life is just not worth living anymore and craving for death.



Darwinism crumbles to the dust when confronted with Emile Borel’s law of probability which states that if an event does not occur in 1 x 10 to the power of 50, that event can NEVER occur. The probability of evolution occurring is 1 x 10 to the power of 162. It is not even worth dreaming about! It goes against the one of the laws of thermodynamics which states that matter always goes from orderliness to disorderliness at a much faster rate than what can be accomplished from disorderliness to orderliness. The chances of evolution occurring here are NIL.



Modern Genetics and the latest discoveries in Astrophysics regarding the universe’s physical constants crush atheism to bits. Read these mind-blowing and latest classic books: “Darwin’s Black Box” by Michael Behe, Phil Johnson’s “Darwin on Trial”, and Ankerberg and Weldon’s “Darwin’s Leap of Faith.” Stunner books! Atheism does great disservice to science rather than serve science, which no doubt rules the world either directly or indirectly. We almost totally live our modern lives on science. On the flipside, personal theism goes much more in harmony with modern science than atheism.





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Who do you think that I am?

Selected Scriptures

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With that brief question Jesus Christ confronted His followers with the most important issue they would ever face. He had spent much time with them and made some bold claims about His identity and authority. Now the time had come for them either to believe or deny His teachings.

Who do you say Jesus is? Your response to Him will determine not only your values and lifestyle, but your eternal destiny as well.



Consider what the Bible says about Him:



JESUS IS GOD

While Jesus was on earth there was much confusion about who He was. Some thought He was a wise man or a great prophet. Others thought He was a madman. Still others couldn't decide or didn't care. But Jesus said, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30). That means He claimed to be nothing less than God in human flesh.

Many people today don't understand that Jesus claimed to be God. They're content to think of Him as little more than a great moral teacher. But even His enemies understood His claims to deity. That's why they tried to stone Him to death (John 5:18; 10:33) and eventually had Him crucified (John 19:7).

C.S. Lewis observed, "You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to" (Mere Christianity [Macmillan, 1952], pp. 40-41).

If the biblical claims of Jesus are true, He is God!





JESUS IS HOLY

God is absolutely and perfectly holy (Isaiah 6:3), therefore He cannot commit or approve of evil (James 1:13).

As God, Jesus embodied every element of God's character. Colossians 2:9 says, "In Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form." He was perfectly holy (Hebrews 4:15). Even His enemies couldn't prove any accusation against Him (John 8:46)

God requires holiness of us as well. First Peter 1:16 says, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."







JESUS IS THE SAVIOR

Our failure to obey God--to be holy--places us in danger of eternal punishment (2 Thessalonians 1:9). The truth is, we cannot obey Him because we have neither the desire nor the ability to do so. We are by nature rebellious toward God (Ephesians 2:1-3). The Bible calls our rebellion "sin." According to Scripture, everyone is guilty of sin: "There is no man who does not sin" (1 Kings 8:46). "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). And we are incapable of changing our sinful condition. Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to
2009-07-13 05:36:18 UTC
E = mc squared. He is energy and matter (if he exists).
2009-07-13 05:36:47 UTC
Pure imagination, and nothing else.
subasu
2009-07-13 05:36:40 UTC
God is not made of anything!



God is ENERGY.



God is MATTER.



In fact, YOU are GOD.



Can you feel yourself?
2009-07-13 05:36:12 UTC
He is made of Apricot preserves or He is invisible.
Jem A'dar
2009-07-13 05:36:27 UTC
He is not made of anything, everything is made of him.
Nikki
2009-07-13 05:42:50 UTC
Neither. And we can't.
2009-07-13 05:36:02 UTC
He is made of BS!!!



The Priestly clan of Jewish Bible writers who invented the Creation story and the “God” that goes along with it are saying that during the “creation week” when God created “Heaven” with all the angels, 1/3 of them, including Lucifer* (*”Light Bearer,” the most beautiful and intelligent angel ever created) were not one bit impressed with God’s “beauty and holiness.” They made full use of their free will, and rebelled against God on the spot! They became known as DEMONS, and SATAN! Christians today are sweet talked into totally ignoring this, and any other story in the Bible that is detrimental to their faith. The Bible God had this drama planned BEFORE the “foundation of the world.” God created angels with the capacity to become Demons and Satan, almost immediately! They were ready to compete with God on the best way to manipulate the people that God “loves” so much. Satan was ready to tempt Eve as soon as she was put together, in a messy operation using one of Adam’s spare ribs!



The Priestly Bible writers made up the story of a sadistic God the Father planning to send God the Son Jesus Christ to Earth to be sacrificed on a Cross so the human race can be forgiven, only if they believe the original “sin” idea and the need for a Savior! The Bible God solution was to have Jesus beaten to a pulp, totally tenderized, heavily marinated in Roman soldiers’ spit, and nailed by the hands to a Holy Cross especially designed for the occasion! The original Jewish Bible writers provided enough stories for the creation of 2 of the major religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, later on. Some Bible writers discovered a few incoherent stories in the OT that they used to come up with the Christian religion, while Islam was put together on a tangent of their own. There is no record outside of the Bible that Jesus ever existed, or that the Romans ever crucified anybody to any cross in Jerusalem. Our body is too heavy to hang placidly in there from a couple of nails! The Romans were known to impale their victims driving a pole into their rectum and making them stand up into the air until the pole would eventually pierce the heart or lung killing the victim. The thicker the pole, the longer it took for the victim to die. In some cases, the victim would die of severe internal bleeding. Jesus died a sissy man’s death hardly shedding any blood while hanging from the cross. If he were to be impaled, there would be a lot of blood mixed with feces gushing out of his anal cavity when the pole is removed (not a nice “blood shedding” event, for most religious purposes). The Romans had plenty of poles available for free. They never had to manufacture any cross, or even a NAIL! Nails were not that easy to make in those days! The horizontal beam of any “crucifying” cross had to be very carefully designed and built to stay firmly in place, and not to come loose jeopardizing the safety of the victim nailed to it! You don’t need to be scientifically oriented to figure that much! The Christian idea of a cross comes from some odd ball Heathen source! In the real world that we live in, it is very doubtful that the Romans would have spent so much taxpayer’s money, and effort to nail common thieves to such elaborate crosses that needed to be dramatically carried back and forth to the execution site! The Romans were not that stupid!



Deuteronomy 21:23 (KJV) His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; for he that is hanged* (*plain hanging by the neck, spiritually speaking!) is accursed of God; that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.



The NT writers used this ONLY “clue” in the Bible to come up with the Holy Cross idea, and the same day burial! God turned out to be an Indian giver because the “land” of Judea was in Roman possession all that time, and the Jews NEVER had it until 1948. They are still fighting for it, too, in spite that “Jesus” was hanging “upon the tree,” and was buried on the same day! The JWs claim that Jesus was nailed to a pole with his hands above his head held by only one nail! You need to be much more gullible to qualify as a “JW” because all CHRISTIANS KNOW “BY FAITH” THAT JESUS WAS NAILED TO A HOLY CROSS! Anytime you see a stick laying around in a Kingdom Hall, it may be a religious symbol! Any JW into sadomasochistic pleasures would feel a mind blowing experience to be thrashed with a religious symbol, in the closet, of course!



1 Peter 1:19-20 (KJV) But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot* (*but full of Roman soldiers’ spit!): who verily was foreordained before* (*please Christian, read again! “WHO VERILY WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE”) THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!



Hebrews 10:7 (KJV) Then said I* (*Jesus Christ!), Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God.* (*Jesus is following the script in a HOLY BOOK! That is why the NT Bible writers always claimed that he did this and that so that any “prophecy” about him may be fulfilled – e.g. Mat 4:14! This is the best way to fulfill any Bible “prophecy,” especially the ones that DON’T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL, and need to be “spiritualized!”)



The Bible writers claim that God got so upset at all the dissenting angels that he didn’t provide them with a Savior, instead he created a sulfuric fire burning HelI in the depth of this Earth during the original “Creation Week” to punish them someday for ever and ever along with all the unbelieving Jews, and the rest of the world!



Matthew 25:41 (KJV) Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:



God is still in desperate need of all the help that he can get from the Demons and Satan, to make life miserable to everybody, especially Christians! RIGHT NOW, all the Demons and Satan are freely commuting back and forth to Earth until the “end of the world.” The Bible God and Satan are not much different from any of the Heathen Gods of that time! The preachers are hiding all these statements in the Bible from the public, and very seldom, if ever they are discussed in open Church sessions! It takes an honest atheist to tell the world that Christianity is a cruel joke on all of us!



Revelation 12:9-10 (KJV) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent* (*that tempted Eve… this statement ought to shake the Hell out of religious people!), called the Devil, and Satan, which DECEIVETH the whole world he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven* (*Heaven is full of sound effects like in any Greek theater of that time!), Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN IS CAST DOWN, WHICH ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT.



The whole Bible story is like a classical Greek theatrical show. The Bible writers insist that the Devil and his angels are DAY AND NIGHT EXTREMELY BUSY IN HEAVEN! You can tell that the Bible Heaven is run by a whole bunch of low IQ Ayatollah morons. The “Holy Throne” of the Bible God is infested with all sorts of Demons blowing the whistle on any misbehaving Christian! God never gets tired to listen to their reports DAY AND NIGHT! He is on record that he destroyed Sodom based on their report (Gen 18:20-21)! This primitive Bible God also heard reports that the world was living in full harmony, had a common language, and that people were united in an effort to build a tower of TAR AND CLAY to reach Heaven! God became so paranoiac that he had the whole Trinity team come down to EARTH to investigate the reports, like if this humongous and billions of light years wide universe was not even there! The Bible writers claim that in punishment for their novel experiment in a tar and clay application God confused for ever the common language spoken on the Earth. That is why we have so many languages today! The Bible God is the “Chief Author of Confusion” to this day (Gen 11:5-7)! And some naive men of science still want to dialogue with creationists about an “Intelligent Designer” Bible God!



According to the Bible writers, Satan is very much respected in Heaven! No human or angelical being has the power to hurt or offend Satan. The elite Archangel Saint Michael, and Satan had a fetish tearing apart the dead body of Moses. They did it with due respect for each other (Jude 1:9)! At times, Satan is much more powerful than God! (1 Thes 2:8, Judges 1:19) The Bible say that God lost to Satan ALL the kingdoms in the world (Mat 4)! God must have been a terrible poker player! 2,000 Years ago Satan dragged God the Son Jesus Christ like a queer guy to a spot in a secluded rest area on top of the highest mountain so Jesus could see ALL the kingdoms on this flat Earth. Then when nobody was watching, Satan was ready to hand them over to him, only if Jesus would discreetly KNEEL DOWN and worship him guy to guy (Mat 4:9)!



The Bible writers insist that without gullibility, aka “faith” it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God (Heb 11:6)! Atheists can relate to that 100%! Jesus clarifies that a person has to have the gullibility of a child to follow him! The Bible stories are NO different from any story of Heathen origin that Christians today still deep throat like a charm, spiritually speaking, of course!


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