What is God?

[Mr.wizard]

I think God is like salt.
What is the taste of salt? Salty.

Anyway,i'm going to ask some of my Theistic friends about what they think God is.
I have a feeling that the definition of a God of an Atheist would very much vary from that of a Theist.

It makes sense that an atheist and theist might define god differently. A theist will  define god in the same manner which their particular religion does but they will discount other religions's definition. An atheist will  try to define god  as a  concept of many different cultures and ideas. The Hindu idea of god might differ from the Christian idea of god.

Your comparison of god to salt doesn't really work well. You can define salt and even write a chemical formula for it.

I found a definition of salt that most people will agree is a good one. It is harder to define 'god' because people use that word to describe many things.

any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation.

The problem with just defining god as salt, is that it doesn't explain the concept, its merely changing or adding on to an existing label of something. Why does salt get labeled as god and not sugar, what qualities does salt have that make it worthy of an additional label? If god can be defined as everything then the concept of god is useless because its existence is indistinguishable from its non existence, you have essentially defined it to the point of being undefinable.