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Is God really a Verb?

We've always been taught that a noun is a person, place, or thing. But God is really more like Movement than a thing. Wouldn't our language be better if we considered Him by what he does, rather than as static, like an idol?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    pray on one hand, act with the other, see what happens first

    maybe God is us in action, or the energy and interaction, the reciprocation between others

    whatever god is....each of us has a different portion of the larger view

    I like the idea of god to be doing not static

    but god is not limited to one aspect, we all percieve differently but together we may try and express the whole to eachother, and it's this action that we call 'god'...attempts to decribe and do great things

    Source(s): asking questions, always learning, accepting truth as I find it regardless of creed or bias
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Interesting thought. The Bible identifies God as a "person." An unusual and unique one, but still a "person."

    Several words translated into English as nouns are actually adjectives in Greek. For instance, hagiois is a plural form of the adjective translated "holy" or "set apart." But as a plural it translates as "saints" or "holy ones," etc. That is, the adjective, like all verbs in Greek, has an "included" or "assumed" pronoun built into it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Actually by believing that Jesus is an angel you also are disagreeing with Scripture because it states that Jesus is the only Son of God if Jesus is an angel He has brothers which means He wouldn't be the only Son of God. Jesus is the only Son of God because He was born from the Father's own Being as Jesus had said He and the Father are one which means they are of one essence. The Son of God was never created no where within Scripture does it state this. But when Jesus assumed His human nature as the Son of Man being the flesh and blood of His Mother the Son of Man was created by God you will find this mentioned within Scripture. But regardless both the Divine nature and human nature of Jesus are both undivided because when Jesus assumed His human nature it became part of Himself. John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, you're not understanding what a verb is. It's a part of speech. Yes, you can say God is a "movement" or whatever, but that doesn't make the word "god" a verb.

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  • 1 decade ago

    look up the word "ineffable"

    If there is a godhead...in the sense of the infinite, omni-everything...then even the attempt to name this godhead is blasphemous to some belief systems...

    whatever the godhead is.-if it exists at all

    is beyond human understanding, beyond human comprehension, beyond human attainability...

    so ....don't try to anthropromorphize the godhead...don't ascribe human characteristics

    ....that is trying to limit the infinite with our finite minds....

    a bird might be aware of a human's presence...do you think that a bird's description of a human to other birds really captures the human essence???? or is merely the best chirping that a bird could do? and a "god" is INFINITELY more than human

  • Starry
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    If God is a "Him", He's a noun. Get to a grammar class. Quick.

  • 1 decade ago

    God isn't a movement. You're refering to a being.

  • 1 decade ago

    I understand where you are coming from, but all nouns do not simply describe something that is stagnant. Woman is a noun also and I have not met a stagnant one yet.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I see you are a contrarin. By definition, God would be a Noun.

    If a sprit is a (thing).

  • John
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Not really.

    The Christian God presents himself as Person (with Intelligence, Volition, Will etc).

    Cordially,

    John

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