Want To Know God?

God is conceived as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith. The concept of God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (illimitable cognizance), omnipotence (illimitable power), omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and sempiternal and compulsory subsistence. In theism, God is the engenderer and sustainer of the macrocosm, while in deism, God is the engenderer, but not the sustainer, of the macrocosm. Monotheism is the credence in the esse of one God or in the oneness of God. In pantheism, God is the macrocosm itself. In atheism, God does not subsist, while God is deemed unknown or unknowable within the context of agnosticism. God has additionally been conceived as being incorporeal (immaterial), a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". Many eminent medieval philosophers and modern philosophers have developed arguments for and against the subsistence of God.

There are many denominations for God, and different denominations are annexed to different cultural conceptions about God's identity and attributes. In the antediluvian Egyptian era of Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten, premised on being the one "true" Supreme Being and Engenderer of the Macrocosm. In the Hebrew Bible and Judaism, "He Who Is," "I Am that I Am", and the tetragrammaton YHWH are utilized as names of God, while Yahweh and Jehovah are sometimes utilized in Christianity as vocalizations of YHWH. In Judaism, it is prevalent to refer to God by the titular names Elohim or Adonai, the latter of which is believed by some philomaths to descend from the Egyptian Aten. In Islam, the denomination Allah, "Al-El," or "Al-Elah" ("the God") is utilized, while Muslims withal have a multitude of titular names for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic deity. Other religions have names for God, for instance, Baha in the Bahá'í Faith, Waheguru in Sikhism, and Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism.

The many different conceptions of God, and competing claims as to God's characteristics, aims, and actions, have led to the development of conceptions of omnitheism, pandeism, or a perennial philosophy, which postulates that there is one underlying theological truth, of which all religions express a partial understanding, and as to which "the devout in the sundry great world religions are in fact worshipping that one God, but through different, overlapping concepts or noetic images of him.