when in many religious and non-religious setting people are so centered on God being a big important being. Paul Tillich, one of the outstanding theologians of the last century, coined the phrase,"ground of being." Using this metaphor, God is not a person with needs, or a being, just more powerful than the rest of us. I know that notion of God as a person is hard to get rid of.
But let's try.
God is not a thing but is the energy in everything; that gives life and meaning. It is the vision that drives us on. It is what the philosophers Bergson called the "elan vital." It is the impulse that drives the seed up through the rock blocking its progress. It is what lures people on to try and make the world livable for everyone. It is what inspired M.L. King to go to the mountain top. It is the processes of nature--the creative impulse. It is the vision of what is possible. It is the process by which nature exists, not nature itself. It is what finally makes for life. It is the spark which we call evolution. It gives meaning to everything. The most basic of all philosophic questions is: "Why is there something and not nothing?" Perhaps there is written into the universe the energy which gives life, which is God.
But you have to stop thinking of God as a smarter human.
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