Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Without any religious text, how would you describe god?

Just a sort of poll of ideas. If you wanted to tell someone about the existence of god, but did not have a history of religious texts and imagery/stories/metaphors, how would you get the notion of god across to someone?

Update:

I'm hoping to avoid things like the 'pentecostal flame', because these are things that have been communicated to you. I'm asking if the burden was purely on your own communication skills, without the influence of common notions in history or culture

Update 2:

I'm hoping to avoid things like the 'pentecostal flame', because these are things that have been communicated to you. I'm asking if the burden was purely on your own communication skills, without the influence of common notions in history or culture

4 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Forget religion. To me, God is love. It's that simple. It has nothing to do with ancient texts , it's just about pure love for the earth, and all living creatures who live on it.

  • 7 years ago

    I'm afraid I can't answer this, because the majority of my earliest experience with God is through the Bible. But I can direct you to someone who can: The Karen of Burma, the Wa of Thailand and the Hmong of Vietnam.

    Source(s): Eternity in Their Hearts by Don Richardson
  • Byte-s
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Imaginary. Just like comic super heroes.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    So far.......I have to minds on it, one of anger and hate...and one of love.

    Hate..God is a breeding animal fit for the dogs and pigs as he babbles he is the giver of life. He knows nothing of holiness and righteousness as he smiles at me how he can glorify his only begotten son up with so much love and passion and for me to just babble I am righteous and pure by his blood as the fool runs from me and my desire to be pure as him and holy as he desired to nail his son full of glory. I hate his marriage and the Christians little faces at me how they love their love all dead, and how there is no marriage in heaven as God breeds them like animals. So dead another can have a holy holy Go as widows can remarry and his dumb holy name can say I join as one flesh again and it is so dead and all your children I can create and babble out of my holy mouth I am the giver of life...and I can gather the men up her and say I give life in holy holy holy matrimony as widows can remarry and procreate a whole new family up her as the giver of life smiles at me.

    Love. I see a God that walks all alone the only one holy and pure, very angry. As he gives his son to the world for their sins as they dance for joy only God is good and holy, as God shows me only I seek the Lord to be pure as him and holy. He has told the Christians TRUTHFULLY that death will do them all apart and another can have a go as widows can remarry. They all love breeding like animals and love the world even though I told them to place their eyes on heavenly things, and they all know death is coming to all their love and they all know only God is good and holy and they have no fear, but love it God can give his son for them all with his love and how death do them all apart and how another man can comfort their wife as they know she needs it like the "slave" she is..(he). God blessed them with marriage but I only have ears to hear that death is coming as "they" all dance for joy that death is coming to all their families and their worldly hearts as death will do them all apart.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.