God

Who IS God?

Who is God? God is God! How do you explain who is God? A new friend I met asked me that on Monday. I wondered how to tell him about God without antagonizing him, yet bring across the truth in a simple, straightforward manner. I said that, the question you should be asking is, not WHO is God, but why do I believe in God. And then we had a discussion about faith, which I realized was even more difficult to explain. In the end, I just looked at him with all sincerity and said, God is someone who loves you, very much.

I was very moved by his question, because I knew he asked not out of maliciousness, but out of curiosity, and also, I knew that he was searching for something. Something more in life.

The Bible says (we should) "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." 1 Peter 3:15.

I realised that our words are powerful, that despite all our flaws we are able to influence somebody to the gospel. And we are respected, in a sense, because of what we believe in. Everything we do and say, we are giving a REAL LIFE testimony, even to the smallest pantry aunty in our social circle, right up to our bosses and our parents.

How an online encyclopedia describes God:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God#Biblical_definition_of_God

Biblical definition of God
God according to the Bible is characterized not just as Creator, but also as the "Heavenly Father".
The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) characterizes God by these attributes: "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation." (Exodus 34:6–7)
The Hebrew Bible contains no systematic theology: No attempt is made to give a philosophical or rigorous definition of God, nor of how God acts in the world. It does not explicitly describe God's nature, exemplified by God's assertion in Exodus that "you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live". Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are the words omnipotent, omniscient, or omnibenevolent used to define God in a systematic sense.
Although Scripture does not describe God systematically, it does provide a poetic depiction of God and His relationship with people. According to the Biblical historian Yehezkal Kaufmann, the essential innovation of Biblical theology was to posit a God that cares about people, and that cares about whether people care about Him. Some people believe that the Bible should be viewed as humanity's view of God, but theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel described the Biblical God as "anthropopathic", which means that one should read the Bible as God's view of humanity, and not as humanity's view of God.
Similarly, the New Testament contains little systematic theology: no philosophical or rigorous definition of God is given, nor of how God acts in the world; however the first of John's letters states: "God is light" (1 John 1:5), before he states: "God is love" (1 John 4:8).
The New Testament provides an implicit theology as it teaches that God interacted directly with people, in the person of Jesus, and that he subsequently sent the Holy Spirit. In this view, God becomes someone that can be seen and touched, and may speak and act in a manner easily perceived by humans, while also remaining transcendent and invisible. This appears to be a radical departure from the concepts of God found in Hebrew Bible. The New Testament's statements regarding the nature of God were eventually developed into the doctrine of the Trinity.


So maybe, my description was right after all.

God is someone who loves us very much.

Tell someone about how much God loves them, today!

(By the way, the picture is Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel on the ceiling, it shows Man(Adam) reaching out to God, and God depicted as reaching back to Adam. Cool, huh?)