Who Is God? | Catholic Central

God is a term that's thrown around a lot, but what do Catholics really mean when they say God? How can we know who God is? Why does God seem to have changed throughout time?
Kai and Libby take you through some of the qualities that Catholics believe God has, and why they differ from the vengeful, angry being you might have read about.
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This is great, can you go over the four Loves and the Love Jesus is talking about, Agape Love

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Fun! And excellent, in a summary kind of way! Thanks guys. I´m that interfaith Christian guy who wants Catholics to keep coming to the World Council of Churches conferences. Not that I´m involved at that level. I was kind of casual as an interfaith Christian guy, until a few years back I started getting riled by the anti-theists. Now, I´m really active and clear about a few arguments, and even fairly innovative. For example, I´ve realized that for all the insights I see, like "science" being really "scientific philosophy," and more. Anyway, awesome stuff! shot putter wedding planners! Thanks again for high quality metaphysical laughs! Educationally speaking, of course!

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Green Peacemst, Thanks for your enthusiastic comments. They affirm our mission to reach all seekers of the truth of Jesus, the Living Presence of God that's knocking on the door of our hearts.

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Can we see GOD ? And does he have a personality ? What is our position in relation to GOD? Why do people who do not know anything about GOD avoid the topic ? Because I heard do not talk about money politics and religion. Thank you :)

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Nitai TV, you ask if we can see God. No, we cannot see God because “God is Spirit,” (John 4:24). But we can see God’s works in nature and the universe, as well as in each other because we are all made in God’s image. And as Catholics we believe that Jesus is God as the Second Divine Person of the Trinity, and that we are seeing Jesus when we gaze on the consecrated bread and wine of Eucharist. Your next questions about God’s personality and our relationship to God are addressed in the episode, which we urge you to watch again or to read the transcript for more careful study. As for your final question about why people avoid talking about God, we agree that it is true, and it may be that many people cannot talk about God without getting angry or judgmental. Why? Because others disagree with them. As Catholic Christians we are called to share the good news of God in words and actions, but to always do so with love. We can only hope to communicate if we show respect for others in the way we talk to them as well as listen. Before we talk about God, we must show God in our hearts. Still, as Kai and Libby say in the episode, “since we are created by God, the desire for him is an inherent part of us, which means it’s only in God that we will attain true happiness.” Since everyone we know is seeking happiness, though very often in all the wrong ways and places, how is it possible to keep this ourselves?

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The bible says that the world was created 7000 years ago. Then they have the probably true theory about evolution. This has taken me to believe that god exists but the bible and official religions are man made. Then you have other religions that most are centred around god, but with all different ways and beliefs about it. This lead me to believe that there is a god but all different religions have different ways of worshipping him and different beliefs and ideas about him. I’d say that no religion or even person has the true story about god. Because of this, I avoid things like churches and bibles but I still pray to god and worship him in my own way

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Boeing A370 let’s break up your comment into three sections: We’d first like to address the part about evolution. As we explain in our episode on “Creation and Evolution” you could look at the story in Genesis as an allegory - a poetic or shorthand expression of the larger truth. Each word we translate as “day” may have been an epoch as opposed to a 24-hour day, since Hebrew “Yom” can mean both day and epoch (like our own “back in the day”). Also, if you look at the evolutionary sequence of creation in the Bible, you will see that they pretty much got it all correct - and there is practically no way a fifth century B.C. mind could have conceived that if it hadn’t been divinely inspired. The second section of your comment is about God and religion. Your logic is that all religions look at God differently and, as such, they are all false. There’s another way of looking at this. Let’s say you come from a very large and loving family with parents who are hopelessly devoted to each and every one of their many children. If I were to go to each child and ask them to tell me about their parents, I would get very different but, at the same time, similar stories. This is the way with most of the world’s religions. You have to remember, as Catholics, we believe that there is only one God. We also believe it is the same God as the Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and others believe in. The third section relates to your claim that “all religions are man made.” As Catholics looking at the history of the early Church, we believe that Catholicism is actually Christ-made. See our episode “What Is Catholic?” This doesn’t mean we consider other religions to be false. Like the other children in that large family, we see God and our relationship with God in our own way and differently than do some of our brothers and sisters. But as to all religions being “man made,” we would respectfully challenge you by asking how the God you pray to and worship in your own way is not “man made”? By what process have you come to know and understand your God? What is the nature of your God and to what extent does it resemble or differ from the God of the Bible and religions that you say you reject? In the absence of a loving and sacred community for support, insight and dialogue, how do you know your God is not just a comfortable self-construction that can be modified at will in the interest of convenience or moral expediency? These core questions can and should be asked of all religions, of course, but honestly you can’t make an exception for your own beliefs without implying that your God is the true God and the God of everybody else is manmade. Religion exists for a reason, not only for communal support in centuries-long conversations about God, but because the community strengthens our conscience and helps us guard against the trap we set for ourselves by thinking we alone can have all the answers.

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