(August 7, 2015 at 8:37 am)pool Wrote: What exactly is God?
What are its exclusive attributes?

I'm genuinely curious

A non-existent figment of human imagination.

It's non-existence. 

What ever you want it to be. Just don't expect/demand that others accept it.

?: What is God?

A: An exclamation of exasperation. Can also stand in as an exclamation of sexual climax, though "Jesus" would be more correct.

If by God you mean the Judeo-Christian God, then it's a poorly-defined, barely-explained all-powerful being who created and now governs the entire cosmos, down to every individual star, planet and atom, and still finds the time to be worringly obsessed about where you stick it.

(August 7, 2015 at 6:24 pm)pool Wrote:

(August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't.

Frankly,i don't see much distinction between "I don't know" and "Because god.",both imply a lack of knowledge through different means.

So i can believe in a deistic god and not be a theist? Just to be clear,a deistic god is used to explain what cannot be explained,right?
If yes,what are the people that believe in a deistic god called?

Finally,a person believing in a deistic god would respond with a "Because god." argument to explain what cannot be explained,am i right?

Edit: Sorry,one more doubt,Am i not a theist if i believe in the islamic god?

They're called deists. The difference between saying "I don't know", and "Because god", is that usually the ones who say "because god" expect you to respond by worshiping that god. And might threaten to harm you if you don't, or if you try to use science to find the real reason.

The islamic god is a theistic god, so you would still be a theist.

(August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't.

"Theism" is sometimes used in a restrictive sense which fits with your ideas, but it also is used to just mean the belief in a god.  In that sense, a deist is a theist.  See:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theism?s=t

See also:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/theism

Note that "especially" does not mean "exclusively."

It seems odd to lump an impersonal creator being with a god that has a name and wants to have a relationship with you, but whatever.

God is a machine, a mechanism;
An emergent pattern of matter and information resulting from human social interaction.
Useful in cementing groups of persons into a unity with more effective power than any of its individual adherents.
Once united, said groups engage in activities, often violent, designed to suppress other, similarly constructed entities.
Successful gods reproduce and propagate into the mind-space of surrounding communities covering more and more territory.
Like slime mold.
A near universal characteristic of a god is that it is nominally supernatural.  This protects the god from falsifiability and guards against the observation that the god is never observed.  Only moderate pig-headedness is required to ignore the point that supernatural, imaginary and non-existent are objectively indistinguishable.
Gods and humans co-evolve. More gullible and malleable humans make more fertile ground for gods to populate. The larger societies formed by these persons are better able to kill their neighbors and prosper themselves by expanding into the real estate left open. Less rapacious, often more effective gods leave their victims alive but colonize minds and similarly expand their areas of influence. This is called evangelism.

(August 7, 2015 at 7:13 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: ?:  What is God?

A:  An exclamation of exasperation.  Can also stand in as an exclamation of sexual climax, though "Jesus" would be more  correct.

Moses was God.  Jesus was God.  Anyone can be God.   It's like being called "Mister".

(August 8, 2015 at 1:22 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:

(August 7, 2015 at 7:13 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: ?:  What is God?

A:  An exclamation of exasperation.  Can also stand in as an exclamation of sexual climax, though "Jesus" would be more  correct.

Moses was God.  Jesus was God.  Anyone can be God.   It's like being called "Mister".

I am God?