What is a God?

[flobadob]

How would you define a God?

[tweaker]

Just to bring you all back to flobadob's original question. 'How would you define a God'?
I guess that's taken as plural for the masses - Some (women) I suppose believe George Clooney, and Bradley Pitt, or the like, to be Gods. And possibly men also! And various other women such as J-Lo, Halle Berry celeb's as 'God's' ?

So, again what one desires...

[mibn2cweus]

. . . which leaves the door wide open to pretty much anyone and anything. Not exactly a definition and not necessarily a good idea . . .
http://www.brooklynve...ssorted/popedevil.jpg

[tweaker]

mibn2cweus,

Nice! I myself most definitely am not a Roman Catholic. I'm a Christian - Okely Dokely!

Being good natured I do not wish the "Pope" to come to the UK. Another argument started here.

[naomi24]

Tweaker, unless you have more up to date information than me (which, if you do, I would love you to pass on), I don't think it's accurate to claim that the Nag Hammadi texts were written in the time of Jesus. There is some information on them here. (Ignore the bit about The Da Vinci Code - scroll down to the article entitled Documents and Historical Evidence on the Gnostic Gospels).

http://www.religionfa...e/gnostic_gospels.htm

[tweaker]

Ok Naomi the codex's stretch across several years.

The New Testament Gospels were certainly written after Jesus' passion, and not even in the correct order.

Gospel of Thomas - hidden sayings (138,1-4) The hidden sayings that the Savior spoke to Judas Thomas, and I, Mathaias, in return recorded. I was walking, listening to them speak with each other. Another one would be 'Excerpt from the perfect discourse'.

'I' pro-noun, singular, present tense. Had it been 'they' I would agree with you Naomi. There is lots of past tense in the NH especially in 'the paraphrase of shem', .

Did you find these text from 'that' Daniel Brown film???

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

Decide for your-self. Buy the book, don't buy the book? I'm out. This is going to go on and on and on.

[tweaker]

One last thing, if you are all ask questions you must be curious - Go and find out for yourselves, there's plenty of information links on this thread.

God bless you all.

Tweaker.

[naomi24]

Tweaker, I assure you that I, like others here, have read many books on the subject, we've studied it in some depth, and we have found out for ourselves. I chose that link because it was the first I came across that didn't require the reader to wade through pages and pages of print to get to the point. The reference it gave to the Da Vinci Code was just an irrelevant by-product, which is why I asked you to ignore it.

[society]

I think there are people who love God and want to serve him but don't want to have anything to do with the church. The church wounds and divides.

[flobadob]

Yeah but who is he?

[tweaker]

flobadod,

A more appropriate question would be 'what is it'? Again, read the suggested book's and you'll find.