Category: Supreme Deity · Origin: Universal across monotheistic and many polytheistic traditions
God, in monotheistic conception, is the supreme creator and sustainer of all existence, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. Different traditions understand God differently: personal vs. impersonal, transcendent vs. immanent, judging vs. loving. In esoteric and mystical traditions, God represents ultimate reality, the ground of being, or consciousness itself.
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Traditionally beyond form, depicted as light, old man with beard, burning bush, or pure spirit
The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, The Absolute
God represents the ultimate source and goal of existence, the foundation of morality, the answer to why there is something rather than nothing, and the potential for relationship between finite and infinite.
Understanding conceptions of God illuminates human spirituality, ethics, meaning-making, and the relationship between transcendence and immanence.
Modern interpretations range from traditional theism to process theology, panentheism, pantheism, to symbolic or psychological understanding of God as projection or archetype.