another question:
people often describe God as living. or so it seems. i have a problem with this.
being called "alive", or "living", carries the implication of death. what lives, dies. it also means that at one time, you did not exist (as in, your soul/mind/conscience/however else you define it), and that at a later point, you will no longer exist (unless you believe in some sort of afterlife, at which point you stop existing on this world, but move to another world).
if God is "alive", he did not exist at one point. He then, is not eternal. If he is "living", he will no longer exist at one point. he is not, then, immortal. God, then, is limited.
I contend that God, if he exists (which many here do believe) would have to just "be". In other words, he's a rock. To be immortal and eternal, one cannot be alive, or have been alive, or will be alive.
basically, God is neither alive or dead, but just "is".