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Is God a verb or a noun?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That is actually an extremely profound question and you probably don't realize that it is. God is omnipotent and therefore not bound by any one description that language can hold. Therefore God is both a verb and a noun and also much more and not at the same time. Doesn't that make your head hurt thinking about it? hahaha People put so much time trying to define God instead of just appreciating that as humans we will never fully comprehend the awesomeness of God

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The great thing about god as a verb is that you no longer have to anthropomorphize it. Because once you do that and make it a being, then you have to decide if it is male or female, black or white, straight or gay, and it just goes to pot from there. God is the act of loving. God is the forward motion of life, so it is all knowing because it is the act of everything. God is both the good things in life and the bad. Understanding god as a verb means no longer having to ask, "why god?". The answer is always that god is in the living of life, and not someone somewhere else pulling the strings of our behavior. God as a verb makes everything in the bible make sense. You no longer have to believe in the facts of the bible, and instead, can focus of the truth in the bible. Understanding god as a verb made it possible for me to return to a church, and that is, literally, an act of god.

  • 1 decade ago

    Neither. The word 'god' (little g) is a noun. But the word 'God' (big G) is whats called a 'proper noun'. Neither are a verb as one cannot 'god' something.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A noun. A verb is an action word. Is God an action word? No. A noun is a name of a person or a thing, such as tree, Thursday, stapler, Jane or God.

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  • 1 decade ago

    God is a noun. It doesn't even work as a verb. "I am going to God to school today?"

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    God is a Noun (person, place, or thing), who is constantly in Verb mode (action). Hows that?

    Source(s): ep
  • 1 decade ago

    A Noun.

    Source(s): Basic understanding of language.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A proper noun.

  • 1 decade ago

    Proper noun if you're referring to the God of Abrahamic religions. If you're just using it to describe any deity, than it is not.

    Ex.

    "What god(s) do the indigenous people of Australia believe in, if any?"

    Source(s): "God is not a person, place, or thing. God is beyond any word, concept, description, and transcends all doctrine. God can be experienced." Pretty sure she meant in a grammatical sense, bro.
  • 1 decade ago

    God  

    –noun 1. the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.

    2. the Supreme Being considered with reference to a particular attribute: the God of Islam.

    3. (lowercase) one of several deities, esp. a male deity, presiding over some portion of worldly affairs.

    4. (often lowercase) a supreme being according to some particular conception: the god of mercy.

    5. Christian Science. the Supreme Being, understood as Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle.

    6. (lowercase) an image of a deity; an idol.

    7. (lowercase) any deified person or object.

    8. (often lowercase) Gods, Theater. a. the upper balcony in a theater.

    b. the spectators in this part of the balcony.

    Deuteronomy 10 (Amplified Bible)

    17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the terrible God, Who is not partial and takes no bribe.

    Joshua 2 (Amplified Bible)

    11When we heard it, our hearts melted, neither did spirit or courage remain any more in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

    2 Chronicles 2 (Amplified Bible)

    5The house which I am to build is great, for our God is greater than all gods.

    Job 33 (Amplified Bible)

    12I reply to you, Behold, in this you are not just; God is superior to man.

    Psalm 18 (Amplified Bible)

    2The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen and firm Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower.

    Revelation 21 (Amplified Bible)

    3Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne and I perceived its distinct words, saying, See! The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp, tent) among them; and they shall be His people, and God shall personally be with them and be their God

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