A collection of metaphors for God
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Overview
- Introduction to metaphors for God
- Quotes about the power of using metaphors to explore what God means to us
- How we create God in our own image
- We need to expand our conception of God beyond “God of the Gaps”
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A collection of metaphors for God
- God as an idol
- God as a person
- God as a king
- God as a lawmaker and judge
- God as a warrior
- God as a creator ( artist | movie maker | author | musician )
- God as an intelligent designer
- God as a mathematician
- God as a refuge, fortress and shield
- God as a shepherd and protector
- God as a rock
- God as home
- God as a request granter
- God as a magician
- God as a parent
- God as a friend and companion
- God as a teacher
- God as a physician
- God as a guide
- God as a coach
- God as overseer of the universe and manager of our lives
- God as plan-maker
- God as an employer using our talents to serve the world
- God as partner or co-creator
- God as a gardener or farmer
- God as love
- God as our lover
- God as the laws of the universe
- God as water
- God as the Source of All
- God as Mother Earth
- God as a womb
- God as Goddess
- God as the interplay of order and chaos
- God as the universe
- God as aware space or pure emptiness
- God as the quantum field
- God as the atom
- God as light
- God as silence
- God as an interconnected web of relationships
- God as a presence
- God as wind or breath
- God as spirit
- God as energy
- God as a force
- God as a verb
- God as Life
- God as spirits in the natural world (animism)
- God as nature
- God as dynamic motion
- God as the universal soul
- God as ultimate reality and absolute truth
- God as universal consciousness
- God as an aware movie screen
- God as our inner being
- God as the ground of all being
- God as universal mind
- God as universal intelligence
- The Godhead (infinite awareness) verse God (infinite mind)
- God as an all seeing eye
- God as unlimited potentiality being made actual
- God as improviser
- God as Oneness, inseparable from all
- God as the ocean and us as waves or water drops
- God as fire and us as sparks
- God as a vine or tree and us as branches
- God as holographic (God as All and All as God)
- God as the Unified Field and us as localised experience fields
- God as a comedian
- God as pure Mystery
- God as beyond all conception, understanding, definition and description
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Atheist and secular metaphors for God
- God as tyrant
- God as a bumbling bureaucrat
- God as an imaginary friend
- Man as God (Humanism)
- Man becoming God (Post-humanism)
- God as the singularity (Artificial intelligence)
- God as the algorithm (Dataism)
- Science as God (Scientism)
Related topic lists
- Spiritual topics
- A collection of spiritual narratives explaining the meaning and purpose of existence
- Paths to spiritual awakening
