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Sure. So, what is a logically sound, tangible, reliable method for investigating the god proposition? Or, more broadly, the supernatural proposition? Remember, we haven’t even adequately defined it yet. We have to do that first.

In response to your question, I thought it would be pretty easy to come up with a definition of God that I could clearly relate to you all.  Actually, when I got into it I found it to be quite difficult.  In fact, I really don't know who or what God is completely.  Being limited in my perception by my earthly body and environment, I'm not capable of defining in words a being for which we have no words.  I think rather that God is someone or something that we come to know in a limited way as he takes the initiative to reveal himself in his timing to those who seek him.  

That's a reason that I've come to believe that all truly God-seeking religions are true by the fact that they all have the revelation of the existence of God.  Religions develop from various cultures which develop various possibilities and myths stemming from the desire to define God.  They create methods and rules to follow that would bring one closer to him.  Having said that, I'll give you my short and sweet "definitions" of the supernatural and God.

I understand the supernatural as anything that exists that is not confined to following natural laws.  God, other worlds of existence, ghosts, etc., fall under the category of supernatural.

As for God, I see him, or whatever, as total existence; I use male pronouns for my comfort and ease.  God is all and has always existed.  Everything we see or perceive emanates or manifests from God.  So the universe is, in essence, a manifestation of God and is in God.  But God is, in total, more than the universe.  We are part of God's experience.  In the process of our lives here, God directly experiences all that we experience.  

This is what I believe.  In the end, after saying all this, the only one thing that I'll bet my entire existence on is that God exists and we are from him.  And this is based on what God has instilled in me.  The rest I feel he has given me, but I'm open for change.  My journey is continuing.

Whew!  My brain is tired.!