What is god?

Whilst growing up I was subjected to the influence of the Catholic Church. I remember being told that God was a fearsome old man with a white beard, up in the clouds, and he's always watching me. Later on I watched films like Jason and the Argonauts where the gods were portrayed as using people like playthings for bets and other selfish purposes.

Since that time man has been above the clouds, travelled as far as the moon and back, sent exploratory vehicles to distant planets, blown up the 'man in the clouds' scenario, and released the power of the atom. It's no wonder that there are now so many atheists when people have been spoon-fed childish pap ever since Christianity was robbed of its power, and usurped by Constantine to save the crumbling Roman Empire.

Is it any wonder that that Friedrich Nietzsche, son of a Lutheran pastor, disillusioned with the whole system, wrote: "God is dead," and went on to write about the superman?

We're left with the question: if God isn't one of these forms, what is God?

Jesus wasn't the first to say what he said. Lao Tzu had said many of the same things before him, as did Hillel.       

If we are to believe the words of the New Testament, Jesus said "God is spirit".

What is spirit? The Latin 'spiritus' is defined as 'breath', the animating principle, that which powers all life forms. He also said, "The kingdom of heaven is within," and, "Is it not written 'ye are gods'?" These sayings of his are studiously ignored by state churches, for it would take away their hold and put power into the hands of the individual.  

With the detonation of the atom bomb comes proof that the atom itself [a-tom = uncuttable] is a misnomer. They are cuttable, and when they are broken open, there is released a tremendous amount of energy, of erstwhile encapsulated power. This same power resides in every atom of our being, and is the cause of all that we see, feel and do.

Modern-day materialist science teaches that intelligence is an evolute, a coming together of a tremendous number of events which produce a brain, from which springs intelligence.

What we can say is that intelligence lies in potential in the infinite field of power in which we live, and move, and have our being. In the New Testament, this enlightening intelligence is simply called, 'the Light', and we see it operating in every living creature.

Although we might see vapour issuing forth when we breathe out on a winter's day, we can't see the power which produces the breath.

We can't see magnetism, but we know it exists.

We can't see intelligence, but we can infer it from the observation of its effects.

We can't see power but we can observe its effect.

The Absolute Power of the philosophers, the continuum of the scientist, the godhead of religious peoples are different names for the same fundamental power. Whereas the philosopher and the person of religious persuasion might say the underlying continuum is the source of intelligence, the gross material scientist would differ and say it most definitely is not.