Who is God to you? Or "what" is God to you?

Is God an all-powerful being? Is God the universe? Is God inside each of us?

After you've pondered on that, how is it that you've come to the conclusion of what God is? Is it from "stories of old?" Which have major credibility due to the fact that they've stood the test of times. Have you come to the conclusion of what God is due to philosophical means? Which has major credibility, because by nature, urns for an unbiased point of view? Or did you experience something phenomenal, such as an epiphany?

Perhaps we will all better understand each other when we understand the causes of our conclusions to accept a certain definition of God.

My accepted definition of God is a very general one. Based on most major religions, God is an all powerful being. God creates and god destroys. God is in all things, and all things are in God. - This to me, would be the same or strikingly similar to the definition of the word "everything." I believe the similiarities are so similar, that in most contexts if not all, the word "everything" can be synonymously replaced with the name "God," especially when "everything" is thought of as the universe, although everything would include more than the universe. I believe this definition of God to be "everything" is difficult to comprehend because most people have a line separating things from being alive and not.

My belief is that the modern distinction between something being alive and not alive is incorrect, which is why I believe that everything should be respected.