Why do people try to fit God into their own moral mold?

Question

I have trouble understanding how we the created have the audacity to determine whether or not God is Just or Moral. I find that the people that hate religion the most, spend most of their days talking about or arguing about religion. I have a lot to think about concerning this matter, but I am open to honest interpretations of the responders heart

Answer 1

i agree. i think people try to fit God into their own mold so they can give reason to doing whatever they feel like doing. like, if they don't want to believe something, they make up a different rule to accomodate what they believe. such as...homosexuality. someone has strong feelings of homosexuality and wants those feelings to be validated so they rationalize that God must be okay with that. and yes, every organized religious group is guilty of this, to a degree. the way i look at it is, find the religion with a doctrine made close to the actual time of existence of Christ and set up by those close to him. that's why it's important also, to not rationalize the evolution and change of principle or belief or ritual to accomodate a changing world.

Answer 2

What would be worse, to ask questions seeking the root cause of problems if we see something is wrong, or to never question an unbending and unchanging definition of justice and morality (which sounds a lot like "I was just following orders")?

If a rule of justice or morality is unchanging (Bible), that means that unless it was created perfect, there exists a better rule that can be created. Hence why the Bible _must_ be considered God's word. Its messages are forbidden change, and therefore, considered perfect, and as we know, only God is perfect.

As we look at the Bible though, we see that it is not perfect, not by a long shot. The intolerance, the killing of innocents and the genocide, the senseless rules, the punishment for victimless crimes, the slavery, the mistreatment of women..., this is no basis for morality. Anyone who continues to assert that the Bible is God's word and therefore perfect as a moral example is either ignorant (hasn't read the whole Bible) or bold-faced lying.

Answer 3

We as a people judge God as if we have a right too. God is all knowing and he never changes. God is just and he is moral. God created morals and no one can say that they themselves created it and just no right from wrong. Religion can be disliked because it is man made and man created this to control the masses. God despises religion because really it doesn't defines what he truly wants from his creation. Man just had to add his 2 cents to cause wars and must blood spill. We shouldn't argue and religion nor spend our time obsessed with it because their real issues that need to be solved and religion isn't that deep!
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Answer 4

You say that "the people that hate religion the most, spend most of their days talking about or arguing about religion" but surely it's only because they spend all this time arguing about religion that you're able to tell that they hate it so much. There may well be millions of people who hate religion more than those people, but don't argue about it, and you'd have no way of knowing.

Answer 5

God didn't create Man. Man created God. If one is concocting a fantasy figure, he does it to suit himself and no one else. I just try to ignore religion, but all too many people will not allow it. My sister is one who shoves her infantile brand down people's throats. Tyrants want their deity's name on all our money and in the Pledge of Allegiance. One hates such tyranny.

Answer 6

The retardation of the the human race started when Moses was invented to keep people in there place now we have so many splintergroups and religious celets that the only way to stop it is total Nuclear WAr that will fix the fu....s.
Take care!

Answer 7

We can not ever hope to comprehend God. Humans are intuitive and seek answers. For us not to be able to comprehend who or what God is, is frustrating. The whole problem is that God wanted us to understand his message, not who he was. I believe that is why he sent his Son, as a man, to walk among us and give us the message, Love one another.

Answer 8

Kirk Douglas said, "If you ty to be an individual. Society will crush you." Like the song goes, "Everybody wants you to be, what they want you to be."
Everyone tries to bend everyone into thier little mold of what they think one should be. Including you and me.
Motivation however, is the key. And while most manipulate in order to gain control over us. I manipulate so people can have more control over themselves.

Answer 9

Yep, I feel the same way.. People want to do what they want to do and then when satan is ruling their lives they want to bash God? It is kinda strange.... and then they conform the Word to fit their needs...I dont like talk like that.

Answer 10

I think that is because we are finite beings, thus it is impossible for us to fully understand the infinite greatness of God. We keep trying to impose limits and conditions on him, but he is who he is.