Questions about God?

I can't tell you the whole truth. No human can. What follows is a combination of things I have been taught (not sure I believe them) and my own observations. Religion doesn't deal in hard facts or repeatable evidence, a science does.

1. God created the entire physical universe. Everything that -is-.

2. God doesn't live in the physical universe, it's like a terrarium in his bedroom. So he has no physical presence. That's why you don't see pictures of him.

'Jehovah' is a variant of a name assigned to him by some authors of the Bible, also interpreted as Yahweh. It's not his name. He doesn't have a name. But some people just have to believe they alone know his name.

3. When the ancients believed the universe was a series of concentric spheres with the earth in the center, they believed that outside the outermost sphere was 'The Heavens', and Hell was at the center of the earth. Today cosmology is much more sophisticated and we think of them more as different planes of existence. My own feeling is that the concepts of Heaven and Hell are anachronistic.

4. Jesus was killed by the power structure, the Powers That Be. That was the Romans and their lackeys, the men they picked to run the Jewish Temple. This has happened a lot to troublemakers and dissidents throughout history.

5. The idea is that God created the universe with a plan in mind. The plan is probably too complex for us to understand, but we are the only creatures that have the choice whether to cooperate or not.

6. I tend to think that the purpose of organized religion is to get people to believe all alike. This damages the legitimacy of organized religion (IMHO) because God gave us the ability to think as individuals, and you have to give that up, to some extent, to join a church.

Religions that are false are those that clearly go against their own stated principles. For instance Christian religions that teach hate and intolerance. Jesus didn't teach that! Or religions that sell out to politics, that conflate political teachings with their spiritual ones, like Judaism in the time of Jesus and some Christian sects today in the US.

7. Have you ever heard the story of the Seven Blind Men and the Elephant? It's an ancient story that explains how we can all look at the same thing and see something different. And while none of us is wrong, still none of us has the whole truth.

Also part of human nature is that we confuse God's nature with our own nature an God's will with our own will. People who are hateful or spiteful or intolerant, for instance, believe God is that way also. It's much easier for spiritual leaders to feed peoples' prejudices than to help them to overcome them.

Some of these questions have an answer that only God knows. So when you go to heaven (if you make it there), you can ask God some of these questions and He will answer them for you.

1) God made the whole universe, heaven, earth, humans, animals, everything!

2) God is an omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient being. God has many names.

3) Heaven and Hell is in God's hands

4) Everybody thought he acted like God. Pontius Pilate killed Jesus Christ.

5) God wants humans to obey His Word, the Holy Bible, to finally be with Him in Heaven for eternity.

6) Religions that oppose God are false.

7) Humans decided to separate Christianity into many different forms because of their own free will.

1. Yes, God is the creator of everything.

John 1:3

"All things came into being through Him, (the Word = Christ = God)

and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. "

God is the one necessary and non-contingent entity. The uncaused First Cause.

2. Is God a power or a he? Or can God become a he but is a power? Is God's name Jehovah?

God is a person. But God is not physical. We anthropomorphize God as a 'he'.

Jehovah is just one of God's many names.

3. Where is heaven and hell located?

Heaven is to be in God's manifest presence.

Hell is to be put out of God's presence (the outer darkness).

Both, along with God are not part of the dimensions of the universe - they have no physical location to refer to.

4. Why was Jesus killed? Who killed Jesus and why?

Jesus died to make the way to God possible for us.

5. What is the goal God wants humanity to achieve?

We are created to live in relationship and service to each other, and God.

What we should seek to achieve is reconciliation with God.

6. Which religions are clearly satanic, false, and cults.

Too many, and some that wear the name of Christ.

7. Why are there so many different representations of Christianity, some which are very appalling such as the west boro Baptist Church.

Because they understand God extrinsically. By that I mean they see their relationship to God based on what they do. And with that understanding they feel they must "do the things they do" to be right with God - and because they have an idiot telling them what "God wants" them to do.

They have the view that they are saved because they obey. (The same applies to Islam.)

Salvation in Christ is intrinsic. Meaning we are saved by what Christ has done for us.

A follower of Christ seeks to obey because they are saved.

1. Yes to all

2. Yes to (2) and (3).

3. Not sure

4. He was convicted by a mob of Jews on the charge of sedition and the punishment for that was death.

5. Unity and cooperation in order to achieve harmonious existence.

6. All religions are cults since they are man-made.

7. Man has changed, incorrectly interpreted and incorrectly translated the word of God which has led them to become confused about His will.

God spent 1600 years having the bible written so you could know everything you need to know.

However it is somewhat difficult to get this information unless you read it.

So knowing you would put it off and get distracted by other things, He decided to send 8,000,000 people out into the world to get you going. Matthew 24:14.

They are called by His personal name, Jehovah's witnesses. Their help is free for the asking.

We were all originally bored cherubs , and 1 of them ( God ) decided to learn to love all of his fellow cherubs unconditionally , where he really needed to imagine his own Growing-up Place . And then all the rest of them begged him to let them in it , but he told them they'd have to wear a God-Body , as he has to , which is geared to have to become perfect ( Mat. 5:48 Greek text ) , or else they would subconsciously punish themselves severely enough in order to motivate themselves to get back on the path towards becoming perfect .

1. yes to all

2. power only no name

3. none

4. no jesus (fictional)

5. not for humans to fully understand

6. all are false

7. confusion and indoctrination

1. yes he created us in his image and he created earth to. 2 .yes he made the whole universe. idk if its a jehovah name. 3. heavan is located in a supernatural place or in the sky. hell is located deep at the firery pits of the hottest place. 4. he was killed because he claimed to be the messiah ( he was). 5. romans killed him. 6. he wants us to be what we want to be. and for the last 2 I have no idea.

1 - 7. God does not exist. It's nothing more than a silly fairy tale.

Yes to everything