The best answer I can give you is to read this:
http://plato-dialogues.org/email/960211_1.htm

Here are some interesting quotes:
"He was a wise man who invented God." -Plato

"If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal." -Aristotle

If I were to sum up there thoughts, (which I am really not qualified to do) I would put it like this:

Plato: Viewed the concept of god as something too complex for him to even address. Also saw god as more of a necessity than a reality.

Aristotle: "Unmoved mover" argument, thought god did exist.

Neither of them viewed god as having personal relationships with humans, or even caring much about humans, the way that most religions view god today.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian_view_of_God
http://plato-dialogues.org/email/960211_1.htm


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