As a whole, the question regarding the nature of God occupies more of my time than really anything else.
As a child, it was a given that God was a personal, person-like being that existed apart from the universe, yet still interacted with it. Around the age of 16, this stopped making sense to me. I wrestled with this for a couple of years, settling into a form of Atheism.
I have since thought of God in numerous ways, including the popular phrase of God being the "ground of being" that we all reside in. And I just.... Don't.... Get it.
To me, when you invoke the word God, it implies a being or force that is NOT man-made. God as love doesn't work for me. Love can be explained by chemical means. The explanation of God as the "transcending spirit" that pervades the world also doesn't make sense, and is just as full of holes as the God of supernatural theism.
My question is, why does God have to have human attributes at all? There seems to be an entirely different way of explaining God that isn't really touched on in any form of religion, conservative or liberal. The universe is hugely, complexly organized. There are planes which literally give objects mass. The universe is held together by a specific, organized system of laws, which cannot be broken. These laws can be bent, but never broken. The universe can be broken down and stored in information in bytes. Math functions exactly the same, when accounting for variables, in every corner of the universe, whether that be Earth, Neptune, or a galaxy 500 million light-years away. With this kind of predictability and organization, it makes sense to me that what could be called "God" is the sum of these systems and laws which give the universe its' existence and order. Could God be systematic, almost like a universal supercomputer? Does anybody else think like this?