Is God an individual or a force? This question may have crossed your mind a few times. It did for me, as well. I made some systematic study and decided that God cannot be more than one, you know that multiple Gods is ruled out, and also cannot be an individual. For one, an "all by himself" individual will not feel amused to create some programmed stuff about which he knows the end results. If he has decided what each of his creations would do, by when and what would be result of such actions then it is as good as assembling a clock. Where is the amusement for God? He knows precisely when the next hour bell would strike. Simple. Hence such a foolish individual cannot be God or God cannot be that foolish individual.
God cannot be a force as well. Our scientists have formulated theories on various forces and every force is definable and calculable. We can measure the force of virtually anything in this universe. We have successfully measured force of gale winds, the ocean currents, the planetary forces and the force with which one spouse hits another in a fight. God cannot be a measurable thing and hence I rule out that God is a force.
I think God is a concept. A concept to streamline the way mankind will think and proceed slowly towards their own end which they will design without consulting each other. No animal ever worshiped God and in fact they don't care if there is a God. They eat, sleep, make merry and die. Precisely what we have not achieved as much as they have. We instill the fear of God in our children and tell them that God is watching over our actions and He will deliver our rewards or punishments as the case may be. This gets rooted into the child's memory chip and recalls itself in every possible situation. The child also develops another chip somewhere which can ignore the memory recall effort of the "god thought rooted" chip. This chip that can override the godly chip is the tool that the real God used to take mankind towards its own annihilation.
This is precisely the success of the concept called God. We wanted to slow down the pace of going towards annihilation and created a concept called God. This concept has slowed down our deterioration and we are still living as over 150 nations and 6+ billion people. If this concept of God was not invented by some well intended brains, we would have been one big nation - a big cemetery with no one to pay homage. We would have ended ourselves centuries ago fighting each other.
So go and tell your child that there is a God watching over his actions - so that your child does not act too fast towards the process of ending mankind. And don't forget to tell your child to teach his every child the same story in the future when he gets his children.
Good Luck. Err....God Luck.