What is God?

[cabinintheforest]

Here is a Christian Science lesson - What is God? Taken from Science and health with keys to the scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

•God is All-in-all (Science and Health, 113:16).

•God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter (SH, 113:18).

•God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind,

•Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love (SH, 465:9).

•God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul.

•The only intelligence of the universe, including man (SH, 330:11).

•Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God-God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; Divine Science or the Holy Comforter (SH, 331:26-31).

•God is "the ever-present I am, filling all space, including in itself all Mind, the one Father-Mother God" (M. B. Eddy, Rudimentary, Divine Science, p. 34).

•The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one everpresent I am (SH, 256:9-1 1)

[divinity]

God is what we need it to be at any given time in our Earthly sojourn.

[matt]

The following quotes are taken from the Nisargadatta Gita, available here as a free pdf download:

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148. Do you require any special effort to know that ‘you are’? The ‘I am’ without words itself is God.

166. Abiding in the ‘I am’ (which is God) you wouldn’t want to leave it, and then it wouldn’t leave you!

178. The knowledge ‘I am’ is God, if presently you are unable to understand it then just worship it.

184. Carry the conviction in yourself that the knowledge 'I am' within you is God.

186. Go anywhere, but never forget that the knowledge 'I am' is God. Day by day through constant meditation this conviction will grow.

199. The 'I am' is the only God to please and if pleased, it will lead you to the source.

201. That soundless sound, the humming ‘I am’ is a reminder that you are God. To understand and realize it, meditate on it.

213. When the ‘I am’ becomes pure, that is without ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’, you become ‘Ishwara’ (God).

[matt]

One more to add. . .

D: Who then is God?

Bhagavan: The Self is God. 'I AM' is God. If God be apart from the Self, He must be a Selfless God, which is absurd. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? Hence atma vidya [Self-Knowlegde] is the easiest to attain.

- Maharshi's Gospel (p. 25)