Is the universe God?

Unless I am mistaken, I thought that the question above was what everyone was going to talk about. But it seems you're all talking about "God's" CHARACTERSTICS instead of wether or not God IS the Universe.
If I may write breafly on this topic: "God IS the Universe". This refers to Pantheism in which God is identified as the objects which make up the universe. A practicioner of an eastern religion(like Buddism) may for example hold up a rock and say, "This is God", or "You are God", "I am God", "That tree over there is God". IOW God IS everthing and everything IS God. It is not the same as saying the spirit of God is IN you, me, the rock, the tree. It sort of puts a whole new bent on wether or not God has certain characteristics like omnipotence or omnisience.
But there are other ways of understanding God also. One is the western concept of God in which we can easily discuss wether God is omnipresent, omnisient, etc. This God is the supernatural deity of the Bible and the Quran who reaches down from the outside and meddles with physical law(miracles), and our "free-will". I think that when you are discussing "Is Universe God?", then you may be talking about this western view of God. Anyway I will be watching to read some of your interesting comments. PM