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The word God generally refers to one supreme holy being, the unity of ultimate reality and of ultimate goodness. God, conceived this way, is believed to have created the entire universe.
It is not an easy job to define the word God, as it is a puzzling notion. As the Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of all, God flies away from all creaturely limits, distinctions, and characteristics. As God is out of the creaturely limits, we cannot define it with the words, which are usually used to define a creature. So God can only be described negatively, as the negation of all that is experienced here and now, for example, as nontemporal, nonphysical, immortal and unchanging.
The Creator is referred with different words in different religions. Similarly, the concept of “The Creator” is also varying from religion to religion. The God is referred as “Allah” in Islam. In the Old Testament, God was called YHWH.
Variations in the Concept of God:
Many Gods:
In some cultures, the natural powers such as air, fire, storm etc. may manifest in a person, animal, river etc. to form a god. Like Greeks have many gods such as ARES was the god of thunder, APOLLO was god of light. The Greeks have assumed these natural behaviors are controlled by them.
In some religions such as Hinduism etc. there is another concept of treating objects as gods. The have assumed certain objects as their gods.
One God:
There are certain religions, which have belief in one God i.e. there is only one super power in this world.
Christians believe in one God, and they treat Jesus as the Son of God, which is contradictory from Islam. In Islam, the God is out of such creaturely limitations.
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