{"id":2927,"date":"2012-12-05T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2012-12-05T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T12:25:39","slug":"who-and-what-is-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"WHO and WHAT is &#8216;God&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who and what is God?<\/p>\n<p>The day has long past when we imagined that God is a huge man in the sky, sitting on a throne in robes with a long white beard. Today we know better that that, right?<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Right?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So then, who and what IS \u2018God\u2019? Is there even such a thing? And if so, what is it? And what is its purpose for existence? And what does it want from <em>us?<\/em> What does it need humanity to be, do, or have?<\/p>\n<p>All of these questions are answered in <em>Conversations with God. <\/em>Yet the answers are, for many (indeed, for <em>most<\/em> of the people on Earth who profess a belief in God) heretical.<\/p>\n<p>The CWG message is considered blasphemy. Yet is it? George Bernard Shaw famously said, \u201cAll great truths begin as blasphemy.\u201d Could this be the case with <em>Conversations with God<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside these books for a moment, what are your answers to the questions above? Is there a \u2018God\u2019? If so, who and what <em>is <\/em>God? Why does God exist? What is God\u2019s purpose? And, most important of all, what does God want? And why?<\/p>\n<p>Let the discussion begin&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who and what is God? The day has long past when we imagined that God is a huge man in the sky, sitting on a throne in robes with a long white beard. Today we know better that that, right? Right? So then, who and what IS \u2018God\u2019? Is there even such a thing? And [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interpreting-conversations-with-god"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}