I have realized that the last topic I posted on this forum, 'is Jesus God,' brought up the question "What is God?"  The last few comments on that thread addressed the concepts of truth and lies, and the spiritual dangers in mistaking one for the other.  Perhaps nowhere is that mistake so dangerous than in the area of worship and prayer.  I don't have a 'unified theory' of God.  On the one hand, I have worked with attempts to come closer to the divine through sacred teachings about the attributes of the divine: