Does God need us to defend HIM? or other way around.?

Question

As for me in this very limited forum I say never and never will. He is sovereign over everything. We would simply not be without Him. your views please. He is the almighty. read 1 Chron. 29: 11-12. But what do you think? and why?

So before Man was made God needed us. I don't think so.

So before Man was made God needed us. I don't think so. Some people just don't read the whole Question.

Mickey G. Your comment doesn't bother me the least little bit. sorry.

Answer 1

Doesn't need to be defended.Wants everyone to know Him.
Romans 10
matt 25:31-46
Mark 16:15-20

Answer 2

The very first commandment--the most fundamental of laws in the Western World-- says, "Thou shall not take God's name in vain." Therefore god needs the protection of man. Man wrote the bible, and man founded all the various religions so God is a creation of man.

If you believe in God then you think that he inspired man to write the bible, however there is no proof of this (and I do not mean bible verses--you can't use a source to prove that the same source is true). This belief is Faith; and faith is the belief in something that can't be proved.

I subscribe to the real and physical world and the scientific method so I say that the Gods are an invention of man therefore man needs to protect God. The Bible and the Koran are the written forms of that protection. They are used to promote and continue the faith and to keep it constant and unchanged (but man has changed the work several times). Not that they aren't great works, and a good guide to laws and how to live your life, but I don’t have the faith that they are the words of God.

I think that religion is a creation of man so the religion has to be defended in order for people to have any faith in it. Since you are referencing a bible verse you have faith and think that what the bible says is true. So you think that God created man and therefore he doesn't need the defense of man. However, once mankind believed in the Greek Gods or the Norse Gods and others. They held to this belief, this faith, just as firmly as you probably do to yours. If you asked a Norse or Greek man about their myths they would say that these are the stories of the gods. They would have just as much faith in their gods as you do in yours, and all of them would believe the others to be heretics. The difference between the old religions and yours is that they could tolerate other gods. Christians do not, that’s why they were so persecuted in Rome; not for their faith, but because they wouldn’t tolerate other faiths.

After all the bible was assembled by scholars under the command of a Roman king. This convention decided what to include and what to exclude from the old texts and how to organize the bible. The bible you read is very different from what the early Christians knew, and that was different than the text of Gods first worshipers—the Jews. Furthermore the gospel of Judas was just recently discovered. If Judas was an apostle then his words would be those spoken to him by God, yet this gospel was never included in the bible and it probably never will be. You would claim that he was a traitor to God, but he only did God’s work. Without Judas Christ would not have risen from the dead. The entire foundation of your faith lies with his traitorous act.

Answer 3

Well bud, I'd have to aggree w/ you on not having to defend God. But I dont read the bible, so I wouldent know what chron.29:11-12 says. Im sure God would easily Kick Our A-- if he really wanted to.

Answer 4

As a previous answer stated, since there is no god and he/she/it doesn't exist then how can there be need of any kind? Humanity has the ability to find answers without resorting to the susperstition and folklore of religion. The opium of the masses.

If on the other hand I'm wrong and there is a god then it's us who need defending from him. Many many dreadful things happen for no good reason to countless people every day. All this stuff about god giving us free will just doesn't add up to me. Lets live our lives caring for and supporting each other without worrying about something we don't even know exists.

Answer 5

If all believers felt the way you do, that we should not deffend God, there probably wouldnt be any believers left today.

1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

Answer 6

A truly all powerful being would not need us at all, either to defend or worship it. Humanity came up with the idea that a god needs to be worshiped because humans won't do anything unless they get something out of it, so they imagined that a god would be just as selfish.

Answer 7

Since god is a man-made construct, and exists only in the imaginations of the faithful, then yes, he needs humans to defend him.

If there really was a god, he would be powerful and intelligent to take care of himself. If there was a god, I'd think there'd be a bunch of smouldering holes where Bush, Robertson, Swaggart and all this scum are from lighning bolt strikes.

Answer 8

No. God does not need us to defend Him.

And most of the stuff I see here is not really defending God anyway. Peeps are just stating their points of view and wanting everybody to agree with them.

It's kind of lame. I certainly hope we aren't getting our religion off of Yahoo Answers. Find somebody who really knows what they are talking about and lives the life, such as a priest or minister.

Answer 9

I think only to the point at which we can back it up with the Bible. Once people start to put words in God's mouth that they can't prove with the Bible i believe God looks down on that.

Answer 10

Who are you to think you can defend God. It is like saying that a glass of water want to defend a mighty ocean. It does'nt make sense.