Definition of God II

Here is an hypothesis:

God is the principle defining the divine.  To the extent that things, events unfold in accordance with this principle, we may say that God's will is done.  Many things, unconscious things, appear to evolve in accordance with this principle by default - their behavior cannot detract from the divine. Conscious beings, or more precisely self-conscious beings, appear to have some choice as to whether they behave in accordance with this principle, though this is a matter of dispute, and may be an illusion.

At times, the principle seems to entail moments of synchronicity - moments when one "receives" just the thing one needs at that moment.  Individual such purposive moments suggest to those experiencing them that "everything happens for a reason."  On a larger scale, both within the given person's life and beyond, any overall "design" in the world may be difficult to discern; it may be, as Kierkegaard suggests, a matter of interpretation.  The "principle" may be either non-rational or beyond human intellectual means - or non-existent, after all.

In mere logical terms, however, a principle is both abstract and inactive.  And God would seem properly to be the opposite in both cases:  concrete and active.  Concrete not in the sense of a physical substance, but in the sense of full reality.  And God must be understood not as a mere feature of reality, but as a principle of motion, as Aristotle might say.  God must be capable of inspiring and invigorating life.  If God is real, and if realities are powers, then God is a power, the power of and creating goodness.

So, in nine words, God is the principle and power of the divine.