Personally I don't think God can be summed up in a book. No matter how we try to contemplate such an entity, our shallow reason and imagination can never even glimpse what such an entity would actually be. But modern science can shed some light on what this God is, and the peculiar nature of God.
To start with, we can say that we are real and we invented God. That seems most reasonable given Occam's Razor. Since there is no evidence that God exists, we can conclude that more than likely he doesn't exist. But then again, the celestial teapot fallacy can run this argument the other way : since there is no evidence of God's existence, then there is no evidence that he doesn't exist. But various psychological experiments have shown evidence that God is little more than a figment of our imaginations. But more radical theories, such as Jayne's theory of the bicameral mind suggests that the gods were multiple minds existing in the same brain, and that hallucinations of the gods faded over time as the conscious mind developed.
Contrary-wise, quantum physics indicates that it is possible that we are not real, and that maybe on a higher dimension God is playing some grand computer simulation (like the Sims) and we are in it. When we look at an image on a computer screen we know that it is not really the family in front of a sunset over the Pacific, no matter how realistic it looks. But how to prove it? Just zoom in until you start to see pixels. Pixels are a good indication that the image is not actual reality. But the same occurs in "reality". When we zoom in enough we encounter pixels, though we call them particles or quantum. It may be that God is some goofy computer nerd playing simulations he generated through algorithms on his 12th dimensional computer he custom designed, and his family thinks he is wasting his life playing with these simulations; namely, us and our universe. The holographic universe model seems to indicate a similar theory.
Another more bizarre idea is that we invented God in our holographic minds, within the confines of a holographic universe that God created us in. It is a bit like Alice dreaming of the Red King, who is dreaming of her dreaming of him, ad infinitum. What a strange loop that would be if simultaneously we hallucinated God creating the universe we inhabit, which would later form itself in the conditions necessary to create living organisms that would evolve to the point that they could hallucinate such an entity creating the universe we inhabit.
And my family thinks I'm an atheist. I just think the concept "God" is far more strange than anything that can be imagined. The nature of reality and the universe is quite odd to begin with. The circumstances surrounding the universe and reality's existence must be far stranger. Even more so, the circumstances surrounding the creation of such a strange existence must be far beyond what any of us can suppose. Furthermore, whatever (or whoever, if that is a consequence) is responsible for the circumstances that created such a strange existence must be one of the most incomprehensible elements imaginable. Like I said : God can't be summed up in a book. (Stuff that one in your pipe and smoke it Dey family!)
[Inconceivably Unable To Imagine God Here]
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