Controversial topic!!! - What is god?

[PollyannaFlower46]

Even in the traditional religions, if there is good there must be the opposite, evil.
Ying & yang, god & the devil...for every action there must be an equal or opposite reaction, etc.

In Judiaism (from what I was taught) there is really no idea of the Devil..or even evil, just God's will. On Yom Kippur, you're supposed to practically beg God to put in "his book" that you will have a good year.

I know there is evil in the world, and it is a balancing act, but some of the stuff that happens just makes you wonder.

I read a book a few years ago in a lit class called The Gnostics...it was very very good and not very long...their version of God is perhaps the only one that I've ever even slightly been able to identify with.