If you were to say something like-- “God help us!” -in conversation with some acquaintance and they responded with-- “God? Who is God? -What is God anyway?”
How would you frame an answer?
Well friend… First of all, to understand who, or what God is, you will likely have to dump whatever you think He is… because it’s probably mostly wrong, and certainly not big enough.
He can be like that stranger that shows up in an old Western movie, who wanders into town alone on the back of a horse, and people start shutting windows and closing blinds as he dismounts and ties up. -Someone says-- “What is going on?” -and another responds with incredulity— “Don’t you know who that is? That’s Billy the Kid!”
Now, you’ve never met Billy and never really even wanted to… but you’ve heard the stories. You know he’s mean and ornery and dangerous and a killer. He’d just as soon shoot or cut you, rather than get to know you.
Maybe that’s the God you think you know.
But you don’t know Him at all. You’ve just heard stories, and you just have a bunch of ideas in your head about Him.
Or maybe you have some other concept of Him. Whatever you think- it’s mostly wrong, and certainly not big enough.
With many, or most folks- the tendency is to try to personify God. To make Him like us, is to diminish Him, as God is not a man (that He should lie).
I am God, and not a man. (Hosea 11:9)
1 Samuel 15:29 says clearly-- God is not a person, that He should repent.
So what is He?
God is spirit. And of the spirit… we know little.