My view of God is different from the commonly accepted one. The word God is only a name for the universal principle that represents omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. Presence (not present) everywhere, all the time, within and simultaneously containing, holding, supporting; a capacity representing force, power and cause in things minute and things big. And knowing of everything not Knower of everything. I take away the personification of capacities that are evident in nature around us : beauty, confounding, order, organisation, precision being some.
Therefore there is occurrence, a causal principle but ‘no doership with intent’ in the entity of God.
Personified entities in my frame can at best be Dieties and Gurus (those whom we worship) not God. The God I know is one, everlasting, neither born nor takes birth, without sexual classification, and universal presence as much within as outside containing.
A scripture states this: It is that which permeates all that moves and moves not in the universe. Again : This is (not but the) One; This One emerging from that One in no way depletes the 'ONENESS' - fullness, completeness of that One. Know the One and be liberated from both pride and sorrow.
The most elaborated descriptive list of a personified God are the ninety nine beautiful names written inside cover pages of the Quran. The Hindu religion identifies this personified presence as Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer - which I prefer to re-state as creating principle, sustaining principle and destroying principle. The last is the most important because undergoing destruction is part and parcel of creation.
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