How would some people describe God?

Answer 1

'Some people' describe God as a 'Trinity'.

But there's a problem with that concept of God.

'Some other people', like Jehovah's Witnesses describe God as: The Creator of Heaven and Earth; and all things animate and inanimate. God is ONE entity, not 3 separate entities. God has identified himself to mankind by his personal name 'Jehovah'. God is described in the Bible as having 4 Cardinal qualities (Love; Justice; Wisdom; Power. All other qualities fall under the umbrella of those main qualities.)

Regarding the Trinity: Many scholars, including Trinitarians, admit that the Bible does not contain an actual doctrine of a Trinity.

For example, TheEncyclopedia of Religion states:

"Exegetes and theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity . . . Although the Hebrew Bible depicts God as the father of Israel and employs personifications of God such as Word (davar), Spirit (ruah), Wisdom (hokhmah), and Presence (shekhinah), it would go beyond the intention and spirit of the Old Testament to correlate these notions with later trinitarian doctrine.

"Further, exegetes and theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity. God the Father is source of all that is (Pantokrator) and also the father of Jesus Christ; 'Father' is not a title for the first person of the Trinity but a synonym for God. . . .

"In the New Testament there is no reflective consciousness of the metaphysical nature of God ('immanent trinity'), nor does the New Testament contain the technical language of later doctrine (hupostasis, ousia, substantia, subsistentia, prosōpon, persona). . . . It is incontestable that the doctrine cannot be established on scriptural evidence alone."

The New EncyclopædiaBritannica states:

"Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament . . .

"The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . .

"It was not until the 4th century that the distinctness of the three and their unity were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons."

The NewCatholic Encyclopedia makes a similar statement regarding the origin of the Trinity:

"There is the recognition on the part of exegetes and Biblical theologians, including a constantly growing number of Roman Catholics, that one should not speak of Trinitarianism in the New Testament without serious qualification. There is also the closely parallel recognition on the part of historians of dogma and systematic theologians that when one does speak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century. It was only then that what might be called the definitive Trinitarian dogma 'one God in three Persons' became thoroughly assimilated into Christian life and thought. . . .

"The formula itself does not reflect the immediate consciousness of the period of origins; it was the product of 3 centuries of doctrinal development."

People can argue their position regarding the Trinity until they are blue-in-the-face; but something that is 'incontestable' is not worth arguing over.

Still other people describe god in various other ways.

Answer 2:

The below statement is just a matter of opinion. According to the bible( in Genesis) we are created in God's image. God is a spirit so we can never see him.

A giant flying plate of spaghetti with meatballs for eyes.

The question is too vague... to get a meaningful answer you'd have to specify which people you're talking about.