I never claimed you personally had a direct hand in postulating any given written definition See below...
Okay, but you did say,
"your own definition would not differ from the many others". I wanted to make sure we're talking specifically about the scriptural use of the term and not some personal interpretation or mythological personification.
'God' looks to have many definitions.
No not really. There is one consistent definition pertaining to a creator. You may be conflating god with religion or conflating descriptions with definitions. There are many "images" of god which is the articulation found in scripture. We should stick to that articulation lest we misrepresent and misunderstand the use of the term "God" as proposed in scripture.
Please be consistent in your own assertions. If you are to trust the Bible, then you just contradicted it's assertions...
"And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face"
"The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you
"And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire"
You're misunderstanding my post, as well as these scriptures in my opinion. The reason I said no one created has seen God is because no created being had been created yet. Hence Moses wasn't there to see God and witness a creator creating the creation.
I was talking in the context of the meaning of the term God as the Creator, but since you brought up the subject of Moses; What Moses described seeing was a burning bush that was never consumed. God is elsewhere in scripture described as a consuming fire. The phrase face to face more likely refers to a one on one encounter pertaining to intimacy, note:
whom the Lord knew face to face".
face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire.
But I digress. So more to the point, what it means for the creator to know Moses face to face doesn't change the term God so that it is no longer an axiom meaning Creator.
An argument from ignorance fallacy, or begging the question, is some sort of 'axiom'
Is this a statement or was it meant as a question? Either way, I would point out that God as an axiom is
a proposition that there is a source of the energy that created all things. That is what we are dealing with in scripture when contemplating the term. Hence there is no argument to be had here, but only a forthright acknowledgment of a self evident fact, that the term God in scripture is an axiom meaning the source of the energy that created all things.
In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Please elaborate on what you are referring to. 'Above' is a bit vague.