# Questions for believers:  Is God a person and does he communicate?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-believers-is-god-a-person-and-does-he-communicate/473760 "2008-11-21T01:10:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-believers-is-god-a-person-and-does-he-communicate/473760/61 "2008-11-26T01:56:36Z")

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> [@Omegaman](#):
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> I was thinking of events like the crusades, the inquisition. That was about what men wanted.

Now it’s opposition to gay marriage and wanting to deny woman their right to choose as if men know those are God’s will. It’s getting better though.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-believers-is-god-a-person-and-does-he-communicate/473760/62 "2008-11-27T09:41:26Z")

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I don’t believe that God is a person. I believe that we have no terms with which to describe God because the power is so beyond anything we can ever imagine. Sometimes I refer to it as “the Great Cosmic Glue” for want of a better way of expressing it.

I do believe that God communicates. Or maybe it’s that everything communicates God. Everything is One Thing. We are all moving toward an ultimate realization of our Unity – our blending into each other. **Voyager** , I see reminders of that Unity all the time and I marvel wherever I find it whether it’s in a book by Joseph Campbell or in the fractals of the design of a single forest. Those are two examples of how God communicates – or rather how I hear and see.

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