You are one of the few that does not make me feel like they are talking down to me and sound holier then thou I appreciate you father.

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@fld9266

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@renferal3774

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@Watermelon-dj8be

3 жыл бұрын

If this priest is father then who’s JESUS ?? And what is Mathew 23:9 talks about??

@Mal-nl4qb

2 жыл бұрын

@@Watermelon-dj8be Jesus is Son of the Father - the One from whom all things came into existence. But there are many types of fathers. Hebrew 12.9; James 2:21; 1 Corinthians 4:15 and so much more

I think whenever we make affirmative statements about God, we run into problems. God transcends our definitions and understandings and we can only approach the topic by saying what God is not. For example- God is definitely not a bearded man in the Sky!

So wise and so young! As a 65 year youngster who accepted Christ as my Savior at 35 and bowed down to Him as my Lord at 50, my return to Mother Church 11 years ago was a long and painful journey, however like the woman at the feet of Jesus, I have finally broken open my alabaster jar and daily attend Mass to thank Him for His grace and mercy in my life. I attend because I love Him not because someone says I should go. I celebrate the Eucharist eagerly because I am thankful He loved me so much He stretched out His arms on a cross at Calvary to die for me, a worthless sinner and embrace me as His precious child. Daily I struggle to see others as He sees them, precious and loved and this has changed my life. He loved me first and I am so grateful. May God continue to shower His blessings on your lifesaving ministry. Father Casey you are a beacon of hope to many. Continue to allow the Holy Spirit to direct you!

Beautiful and wonderful message Fr.Casey👏

When asked 'Why did God create everything?' one child answered 'Because God was lonely'. God is Love, unmeasurable Love revealed perfectly in Jesus Christ. His Holy Spirit has been stirring that Love in the hearts of believers who came before us and those believers amongst us today, and will stir that same Love in the hearts of those believers who have yet to come into this world. God is Love who pours His grace on all humans and His creation. God is Love, our Home.

@mauritzblomqvist8682

2 жыл бұрын

...and then he sends you to be tortured for ever and ever - but he loves you. George Carling

God is good

@roboparks

3 жыл бұрын

All the Time

@humanoidwolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@roboparks yes

Hey father, please keep it up! Next to bishop barren you are my most reliable touch point for a proclamation of the doctrine of the faith that brings me peace.

@fld9266

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

Beautifully expressed.

Thank you Father Casey. You always make me think.

I'm liking this series of Kerygma

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Great! Be sure to share it with others! So far, they're not very popular.

@luispablogonzalezv4522

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit oh, yes I will!

@mcbrideslaw9847

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit give it time.....like fishing....for souls.

@Alwayslearnimg

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit I love them! I am a convert who was finishing RCIA right as the pandemic was really hitting. So we didn’t get to do our Easter vigil. But I love this. And I’ve learned so much from you too!

Fr. I love your videos. I always come away having learned something and feeling like I have a fresh perspective. Thank you for your truly holy work here online.

I will admit, I am not religious, but wanted to say I have enjoyed learning about it from your videos! You are very easy and enjoyable to listen to! Thank you for what you do!

God is existence Itself. Truth and Love exist because of God.

@ipso-kk3ft

3 жыл бұрын

Ipsum esse subsistens from Aquinas has always been helpful for me!

I have yet to meet an honest religious apologist. This video didn't change that.

@freddan6fly

2 жыл бұрын

When an apologetic tries to explain the contradiction of the bible, his intellect just shuts down.

Thanks for the video. I’m going to share with my family. Please pray for my wife and I as we have just stared RCIA.

@Ann12098

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you two on your journey!

@fld9266

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you both ♥️♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You chafe at people viewing your god as some sort of dictator who demands obedience or else, and yet you describe two out of three of the qualities of the trinity with the word "law."

i mean, get that the friar somehow thinks this speech is intelligent and reasonable, but it's just more of the same . . . assertion after assertion after ridiculous assertion. I am so sick of the faithful putting forward such weak "arguments" for their supernatural beings. If a god wants to make itself known it has my number

"What is God?" Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me, no more.

As someone who grew up in a non-trinitarian church I have truly struggled with understanding and comprehending the Trinity. But something about the way you put it finally clicked... I felt like my soul was lit on fire, my mind finally awakened to that which my heart always knew, and that I am truly... Home... Father thank you.

Love and truth flow through you like a clean mountain stream. All of us have a need for the water of life. Thank you for giving yourself to God that we can continue to be called to His grace, forgiveness and love. Continue to walk with him Father that we may have faithful and humble leaders to guide us and help us when we falter and lose our way. With much gratitude for your vocation.

I don't ever recall a more beautiful description of God and declared with such exemplary lucidity as this one. Thank you Father.

May GOD bless you father 😇

“The true enemy of the Christian faith is a vague , watered down illogical and irrelevant notion of god” Reason and rationality has forced Christianity to be intentionally vague and watered down because of the absurdity of Christianity. The true enemy of the Christian faith is faith. Gods have nothing to say.

@freddan6fly

2 жыл бұрын

The true enemy of the Christian god is reality. The god of the bible is easily proven to be non existent.

@christiandahms8846

2 жыл бұрын

@@freddan6fly that first part is absolutely not true and a bit arrogant for you to think. Arguably it is more arrogant than the Protestants and evangelicals who claim that Catholicism is false

@freddan6fly

2 жыл бұрын

@@christiandahms8846 Sounds like you have irrefutable evidence for god. So far all I have heard is logical fallacy, lack of education, lies and circular arguments. Do you actually have some real evidence for god? In such case which god? When I wrote god of the bible, I actually meant as the uneducated lying young earth creationists interpret the bible as the literal world of god. That god is easy to disprove and is not compatible with reality. If you believe in a god that created reality and never interfered, so be it. But that was not what I meant. Sorry for being unclear.

My desire is to share the faith and having the knowledge, but I'm not really gifted with it. I'm not very good at explaining things in a logical and concise way like you do, Fr. Casey, so clear and eloquent.

True for me. Relational love. Receiving and giving love. Love from God shared. Learning and strengthening my faith so that I can share to non-believers.

Thank you for your hard work

Your best one yet. Well done!

So good! Have you ever thought about putting chants or background music over these videos?

When the subject comes up I usually tell my friends that I don't care near as much what they "say" they believe.... as I care what they hope for.

Amen. God bless you, father. Thank you for the beautiful video. To love God is our joy. Blessed be the most Holy Name of God, Father Son and Holy Spirit. God loved us first.

Beautifully spoken.

To me god is awareness( no time , no place, no definition) we notice it in zazen, by imagine loosing five senses. Blessings from 🇦🇪( UAE) Blessings 🌷 🌷 🌷

I love this series, I learned the word Kerigma some weeks ago in my native language Spanish and in English recently. I will think about my answer to Who is God because it's so important to offer our life to Jesus. I used to think What is God. ¡¡Jesús en ti confío!!

I like how when you mentioned the “triune god” you showed three guys getting drunk around a campfire.

AWESOME!!! rocking!!!

May the Lord send us more priest like you fr. A priest who has a deep spirituality in what he believes. A priest who speaks with clarity and honesty. A priest of love. A priest who imitates Christ. A priest whose presence is a visible sign of hope on this world.

Love the Friars!

Where is our video on Liberation Theology? 😆

I love the comparison of the trinity to a body, words, and breathe. I never thought of it that way! The trinity is a mystery that is so hard to understand. Thank you for that explanation!

@kimberlyhayles7681

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree! This was such a wonderful way to explain the Trinity! Thank you, Fr. Casey! 🙏🏼

@dod-do-or-dont

2 жыл бұрын

No mystery, just something idiots came with to "straight up" theological catastrophe which is bible.

"GOD IS LOVE OF GOOD AND GOOD IS GOD OF LOVE TO ALL THE TIME HOLY" KERYGMA AMEN"🙏

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 Mother Mary Pray For Us 🙏Abba Father Bless us and we Adore You 🙏

What's with the weird tape blur on the non-stock segments? Was this shot in the late '80s and the stock footage sections just added later?

Wonderful again Father Casey. Your closing was the recommendation I have been wanting to express. Know your faith so you can share the real faith. I read so many comments online from so many people professing to be Catholics and their expressions reveal such a rudimentary knowledge of our faith. It is as if a great majority received instruction enough to receive First Communion and that is where it stopped. Even so many well meaning Catechists transmit a very limited and sometimes very personal interpretation of Catholic teaching. My humble opinion is that this approach is doing more harm than good. A transformation is needed.

The origin and apex of all that which is good.

AMEN 🙏..

Usually when an educator provides an explanation or definition, you come away with the feeling you understand the topic better than you did previously. Casey Cole, however, explains God by adding in extra confusion. He provides no definition of God, just adds in the completely nonsensical notion of the Trinity and provides a few supposed characteristics of the components of this three-yet-one entity. At the same time, he decries illogical views on God without even a hint of irony.

Wow I finally got an example on how to use "fecund"(or fecundity), thanks!

To me knowing the faith is a journey. There's not even one single moment in my life that I can call "my faith", in terms of a content that can be described. I need God for constituting my faith, His help to drag it out of the vague shadows in my life. I presume this will take a life time, at least...

I am surprised you haven’t had any videos in Spanish. All your videos are very informative though

You know what, I think I may have hit on something in my reference to the swallows and how they are guided by instinct. Maybe we too have a 'homing device' which would guide us along the right path. Perhaps this is what is driving our search. Most of us are seekers and searchers, looking for the ultimate truth.

Amen!

You just made me realize that my understanding of God was always more in line with Islam or Judaism that Christianity. I honestly always thought of God as The one person who is above and beyond all other things. That is one person. Not 3 persons. I could never get the distinction between 1 triune god and 3 Gods completely clear in my head.

Love

In physics, energy is defined by relationships. Kinetic energy comes from movement, but movement relative to the observer (or some other object). Heat energy comes from the movement of atoms around one another, nuclear energy from the changing of quarks in close relation to one another. It's possible to convert energy into things, but also into information, other forms of relationships. All the universe is relationships. The whole universe is created in God's image.

@marklyons3125

3 жыл бұрын

But, God created the universe so he is not an object of it. God is not an energy because he created energy. There is nothing tangible in the universe to describe God. God is not of the universe. Since God is not of the universe you are using the wrong tools if you try to explain God with science. Science explains the universe. Philosophy and the arts art more closely related to God since we can only use abstracts to explain God. God is the truth, love, beauty, justice.....

@jwrosenbury

3 жыл бұрын

@@marklyons3125 God is not man because He created man -- except He is man. God is not a word because He created the word -- except He is the Word. God is not love because He created love -- except He is Love. God created the universe. He created us. He gave us eyes to see the universe. He gave us a mind to understand the universe. Science is empirical. That means we trust the eyes God gave us. To deny science is to deny God.

God is everything.

God is Love.

@horsepowerenthusiast6933

3 жыл бұрын

"I love you, now get down on your knees and obey me or suffer." - God

For me the question is slightly different - Who is God? My true nature, my boss because I am a fool, my hope for the future and my peace. I rest in His everlasting arms and I live generously from having been treated so generously by Him.

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and that is where I ultimately get to at the end. 4:16 The question is phrased in the beginning as it is in order to cast the net wide and begin from the very base: what might a completely non-religious person be asking?

@friarpriest

3 жыл бұрын

Breaking In The Habit great work Fr. Casey

So god is an word salad that sounds subjectively impressive but is actually just incoherent nonsense.

if God is Love... why committed genocide?

...so just one big mess of illogical internal contradictions, then? Yeah I think I'll pass on that, mate.

God is the Supreme Being Who made all things.

@josephryan5949

3 жыл бұрын

That gives rise to many questions. What was there before he made all things ? Nothing ?

@marklyons3125

3 жыл бұрын

God is not a being. God is not an object of his creation.

@marklyons3125

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephryan5949 Right, therefore God is not a being. God is not an object of his creation. You can't use anything tangible to describe God, only abstracts. God is not a being, an energy, a force.... God it the word, the beginning, the truth, love, beauty, justice.....

@josephryan5949

3 жыл бұрын

@@marklyons3125 Jesus told us to call God our father. What could be more personal than that ?

@marklyons3125

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephryan5949 He adopted us into his holy family and made us coheirs with his only begotten son.

I believe in a returning of power.

Thank you father, for reminding us that God is love, manifestéd in three different persons. That love has been manifested on the cross, thanks to Jesús Christ.

I love you

I believe in the teachings of Jesus and have tried to always follow them but I just dont get the three in one concept of God. And how did God change so much from the old testament to the new testament?

@Eserr7856

3 жыл бұрын

The Trinity is Hinted at in the old testament. Gensis 1:2 "the Spirit of God hovered over the water.." or When God says in Genesis 1:26, "Let US make man in OUR image and likeness..." many have interpreted the plural to be a "royal" way of speaking about oneself, others have interpreted the plural to mean that God was speaking to the angels when he was creating man, those interpretations are possibly true, but I believe that when God sent His Son Jesus, that we discover their ultimate meaning in the Trinity. So God didn't change, rather he gradually revealed Himself until Jesus came.

to me god , is a person who love us and taught us to love all , my god doesnt come from the bible but from my heart and education

God is love. And poverty. And loneliness. And pain. And disease. And despair. Yep, he's a busy guy.

But what is God, exactly?

@davidh5020

3 жыл бұрын

Woo Salad. You are asking a dude LARPing as a Jedi Knight or something if he can actually give you a straight answer???

Jesus is the face of God turned toward us. Who is God? Look at Jesus and find out

To me God is love but my late vicar who became a Bishop said he feared God. I could not believe that.

What is Kerygma?

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

The essential proclamation of the faith: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaqm081plZvNlrA.html

@antoniomoyal

3 жыл бұрын

It is the moment in which you realise that God is real in your personal life

Just amazing!!! This young man was called to be a force of prowess for Christ, amen!!!

"God is the experience of total relationship." "What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships." "God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things-all at the same time." "God is like the air. Everyone breathes the air, but few pay any attention to it. Everyone is sustained every moment with every breath. Their bodies depend upon each breath in order to live in the next moment. Cut off this supply of air and the person dies quickly and everything comes to an end. God is like that-so pervasive, so present, so supportive and so nourishing." "But God exists beyond all of this-the real God, the pure God that has been shining like the sun upon you. Regardless of the clouds in the sky, regardless of the pollution in the atmosphere and the turbulence on the ground, God is like the sun shining upon you. But God is beyond the sun, beyond any definition that you can make. Beyond your histories, beyond the great teachers and the great Messengers from God, beyond the great spiritual books and testimonies, there is God the Creator and the Author of your life and existence." Quotes about God from The New Message from God, sent now to humanity as a warning, a blessing and a preparation for the difficult times ahead. Explore it at *NewMessage-org*

God is Love. God made man so that “Man” could show his Love of God and love Man has for others. Man is flaw but God is perfect. In that perfection God nourishes Man and sustains to live in this world. Today the hardest thing is to remember that this world is not everything. St Paul is correct. Life is a contest. Life is a race. The prize is to unite for eternity, in love, with Jesus, in heaven where we will be joined again with our loved ones from our life on earth. As a Protestant minister was fond in saying “on that day when there is no Sunset and no Dawning.”

What is God? He is Father. He is love. What did God do? He became flesh, walked among us, crucified for our sins, rose from the dead. Kerygma for me is the eternal pascal greeting: Christos anesti!

Beautiful. Thank you Father Cole. GOD invented dirt and used it to make us.

Everything that matters is god.

. . .pretty much

Even if three beings act in unison, there are still three beings. You, sir, are a polytheist.

@stussysinglet

2 жыл бұрын

Why 3.. theoretically God could be 23 or infinite …

I am forever lost in the concept of the Trinity--though I have been exposed to it since my days in a Franciscan kindergarten. My lack of understanding makes me feel as though I am missing something of value.

@vinnygi

2 жыл бұрын

You’re not missing anything. It’s an idiotic concept.

😌🥺❤️💕

Still the coolest Friar I never met

if I was asked that question I would say I don’t know because I don’t

The unmoved mover: the uncreated creator of all that is and progenitor of all that lives -- the eternal force behind the laws of physics and probability. Not an invisible man in the sky as fundie-Atheists have in mind

@alexanderofrhodes9622

3 жыл бұрын

As an atheist, I should point out that all of the things you listed sound the same to me. The concept of an 'unmoved mover' or an 'uncreated creator' sounds exactly like a fairy tale of an invisible man in the sky. It sounds preposterous on it's face

@paradisecityX0

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderofrhodes9622 Because you're thrologically illiterate and not educated in philosophy. The same anti-intellectual response as a young earth creationist dismissing evolution as a fairy tale of humans coming from monkeys

@pureflix8086

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderofrhodes9622 its special pleading at its finest.

@tarmairon431

3 жыл бұрын

@@paradisecityX0 We have scientific evidence that humans and the other modern apes share a common ancestor. We have no evidence that an "unmoved mover" would conscious and assuming you don't consider reactions like radioactive decay to be "unmoved movers" we have no evidence that an "unmoved mover" even exists.

Personally I find the the idea of the trinity and the concept of a monotheistic God that creates beings/forms of consciousness outside of it self to worship and glorify itself while at the same time knowing that it will lead to millions or billions of his ‘loved’ children having to be tortured forever more illogical and absurd than the the other concepts given…

@dod-do-or-dont

2 жыл бұрын

Not only you, most people that were thinking about without bias of their favorite story

You can talk in gentle tones, and use big words, but let me clearly spell out what you actually believe. A perfect all powerful all loving thing created a universe with billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, each with tens of planets, just so it could care if Mary masterbates on this one small planet around an average sized star in an average galaxy? That's not all, we're not done yet. This god then creates 2 (well possibly 3 humans, it appears Lilith was Adams first wife, not Eve). Then puts the one thing that would ruin all of creation right next to them. Tells them not to touch it, but seeing as they don't know right from wrong, they have know way to discern this. Then it creates a creature that it knows will trick them into touching this forbidden thing. Then it blames them for doing what it knew they were going to do, and thus punishes his own creation for all time. These first two people populate the Earth (even though there are somehow cities already), but the only way to populate the Earth is, well we leave that to your imagination. This thing then hates it's own creation so much it decides to kill everything in it except one small family. (This family then has to repopulated the Earth again, and again I'll let you figure out how that's done (ask Lot's daughters, if you're not sure)). After the Earth is repopulated, it still hated it's own creation, so the only way this god thing can quell it's rage is to sacrifice itself to itself (as all the animal sacrifices that it enjoyed over the millennium were simply not enough). This sacrifice (which really isn't any kind of a sacrifice) would then offer a handful of people the chance to have an eternity of blissfully worshipping it. But thus condemning any sensible person, or any person that never heard of it, or heard a different version of it to an eternity of torture. Now mind you not only do you have to be convinced of it, but you have to be convinced of the exact right version of it, or your whole life is a failure, and you're going to have your flesh melted off repeatedly for all of time and beyond. And seeing how there are more sects of christianity than there are sentences in the bible, and that the Abrahamic god created 3 religions all with multiple sects good luck finding the right one, and that's even if the Abrahamic god is even the right god of all the gods humans have imagined. This is what YOU believe. This is what you have devoted your life to. You get one life, use it for good. Use it for love, and compassion. Fall in love with a person. Rescue stray dogs and cats. Make the world a better place. You're a young man, don't seclude yourself from the world. The world is a complicated and scary place, but it needs good people doing good things, not good people hiding away.

'belief' is great call me back when you KNOW something about all this,eh?

Clare Robards This series requires the viewer to listen, reflect, and consider the personal implications. When you ask 'what would you say ?', many of us would consider it a frightening question. Keep up the good work.

It is good to have these discussions but oh man, what confusion is out there ! The more I delve into it, the more I am convinced that nobody has an earthly clue what is going on. On the face of it, it looks like everything happened by accident, that it's just a mere chance that we somehow evolved into the walking, talking creatures we are today, with all of the intricate, internal wiring necessary to our current state. Then I look at the animals and the birds, and their incredible natural instincts. This time of year the swallows gather, preparing for their long migration back to Africa from their summer homes here in Ireland. Evolution, they say ... It's pretty amazing. Did it really all start off with an explosion in an outdoor science laboratory ? Anyhow, to get back to the main theme, even if we haven't a clue, I have always liked the idea that God is Love, and where there is love, there is God.

@sjw5797

3 жыл бұрын

The big bang theory was conceived by Msgr. Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic priest, mathematician and physicist.

"There is the son - the one spoken, who is and fulfills the law" The son IS the law. Seriously, what can that even mean? If the law can be a person, should I introduce him to my brother, the novel and my uncle, the geometry proof? How can the son fulfill the law? By obeying it? Isn't that for us to do? We were just told that the father enforces the law, so the fulfilling is not enforcement. Maybe it has no meaning, but I admit it sounds good. Fulfil combines full and fill, two words with strong positive vibes. The value of these statements is mystical poetry if you like that sort of thing.

God is not a being of the universe, but the act of being itself.

@roboparks

3 жыл бұрын

God is not a being of the universe, God is the Being of the Universe itself. That's Why No one can explain it all, Not even 2000 years of Study of the Catholic Church or even the maybe as far back as the 1st Religion at Göbekli Tepe over 11,000 years ago. With all of are knowledge of Good and Evil Humans still can't explain God but we know that this Being exciest. That's called Faith , You can't prove it but cant disprove it. The Righteous shall live by Faith NOT Signs and Wonders.

How do one know that your belief is not empty and ... wait a minute...we, and that includes you, cannot know. Empty assertions without any "how and why" as usual. There's basically no differences between you and the "wise men" of eastern religions.

It's Joe Pesci.

This was such a beautiful, love filled and Holy Spirit led expression of Who God is. I'm in deep agreement. Our God is so amazing, Praise Yah! May God continue to bless you and keep you, smile on you and gift you, Look you full in the face and make you prosper, in Christ Jesus's name, amen

If we say God is just a Creator and rip his qualities like loving, enforcing the law, providing wisdom etc., then he is no better than a flying sphagetti monster. Everyone has their own opinion about God like he is eager to punish, he doesn't care, I am god, he is useful delusion to he cares only about my group, he is a genie, he is my source of income to he is Love, he is the hope for mankind etc., That's why defining God properly is needed. Whatever opinion we have it doesn't change God's nature but it tremendously changes our nature. He is eager to forgive the repentant sinners and have a relationship with him. Believing in God isn't enough we should be perfect like Him.

This is a joke, right?

God is a true contradiction in the same sense that “This sentence is false” is a true contradiction. God is the great paradox. Look into paraconsistent logic.

I appreciate the attempt, but I'm afraid that you describe the three Persons not only in relation to each other, but in their relation to creation: Father/Creator, Son/Redeemer, Spirit/Sanctifier. That is modalism. See CCC 258: 'The whole divine economy is the common work of the three divine persons. For as the Trinity has only one and the same natures so too does it have only one and the same operation: "The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not three principles of creation but one principle." However, each divine person performs the common work according to his unique personal property. Thus the Church confesses, following the New Testament, "one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are".' I think just about every homily I've heard on Trinity Sunday expresses modalism, so it's not uncommon.

A person's god is what they think can benefit them or what they spend most of their energy on. My ego can be my god. My child or wife can be my god. My boss may be my god. Atheists have a god, they are worshipping their opinion, or their ego. People have many gods at the same time despite what they proclaim with their mouth. This is technically what paganism is. Christians have deified Jesus and their god has become Paul and the church fathers. The Jews have made the opinion of the rabbis in the Talmud their god. The muslims have made Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali their god. Or the Shia have made Ali and the Imams their god. Or muslims have made Bukhari and the like their god. Monotheism rejects all of these inventions. There is a Creator who creates, maintains and controls reality. Monotheism is a radical concept to the minds of most people. For a true monotheist, God is doing everything. Only God can affect your life. He controls the hearts and minds of everyone. He controls every atom. He controls the brain synapses of Satan, Jesus, the angels the disbeliever and the believer according to their deepest inclination, their "heart". "God" is the word for this monotheistic god in english, even though the monotheistic concept is violated by most who use it. Allah is the word for this monotheistic god in Arabic, even though the concept is violated by most who use it. Elah is the word for this monotheistic god in Aramaic, and Allah is simply a dialect of this borrowed word from the more ancient version, "Elah". There are a lot of Aramaic expressions that influence the other Semitic languages, as it is a more ancient language. Hashem is a word that refers to this God that doesn't actually mean god, but God Almighty is who they are referring to, but most who use this are violating the monotheist concept unknowingly. It is the concept in the minds of the person that matters, and not the name so much. God sends scripture and following it alone is how to be a monotheist. There are several real scriptures, but the oldest ones have more human injected doctrines. Here is what God says in his latest and last scripture, the Quran,{Say, "Call Him God, or call Him Most Gracious; whichever name you use, to Him belongs the best names."} [17:110]. This is not my opinion. This is the opinion given to us by one of God's messengers. God sends information to us through men who show proof of authorization by showing us a miracle or something miraculous, like Moses, Jesus or Muhammad. We received a messenger from God for our time in the 1980's to correct many of the distorted concepts about God and religion out there. His name was Dr. Rashad Khalifa. He was God's Messenger of the Covenant, prophesied in Malachi 3 and Quran 3:81. He provided miraculous proof, mathematical proof, of his messengership. All of the information inspired through him from God is available online through keywords such as "submitter" or "God alone" or simply reading his translation of the Quran: Quran, The Final Testament by Dr. Rashad Khalifa. Peace.

lol, I was gonna say JESUS IS GOD. GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOLY TRINITY ONE GOD. AND HE IS LOVE! hmmmm, it was my idea Father! ✌️✌️✌️😅😂🤣🥰😍🤗💝💖