What is a "god"?

[CleanShavenJesus]

How should atheists define what characteristics make up a "god" to determine wether someone is believing in a certain entity?

Atheists should not define what characteristics make up a "god", it's the respective believers of the different "gods" that dictate its characteristics. From there, the atheist can decide to believe and/or accept it, or to not believe and/or accept it.

So, I started to think of God more as an artist. But not the artist that does art just for arts sake. The artist that does their art because they have something to say.

Try this: take out a piece of paper and draw a stick figure. You are god and the stick figure is your creation. Now, make your stick figure understand you. What does your two dimensional stick figure say about your three dimensional existence? Has it thought of a three demential existence from its two dimensional world? Probably not, but you, being god, can help. Draw a picture of a three dimensional box. Your stick figure starts to get an idea . . . maybe.

God is the one that drew us, but not just drew us, "breathed" life into us. God said, "Paper" and there was His canvas. God said, "Pen" and there was His instrument. Are we created in His image? Yeah, but until we see his "face" we can never completely understand what that means.

So, what I am saying is, God is the coming together of metaphor and literal. We speak and ideas come out. God speaks and reality comes about, as far as understand it.

Now draw another stick figure and have him disagree with the first on the truth of his so called "3D box." Draw them each a computer and let them argue about it in a forum. Ahhhh, now they're happy.

This analogy does very little for me.