Does worship help god or the people performing it? Does it provide some addtional power to the god which he had been lacking so far?
2006-09-05 18:55:47 · 20 answers · asked by orsel 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that some deities enjoy it and some are not interested in the affairs of humans. I honestly do not know why some like it and some even require it.
2006-09-05 22:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People worship God because they need a higher power. People always want answers. Where are we from? Who made us? In early times, simpler times, we were afraid of thunder and lightning. God(s) must be angry. Don't piss him off, just appease him. Now we know if hot and cold air collide we get thunder. It is now getting harder to believe in God. We now have more scientific understanding of life than secular understanding.
Short answer, God does not want to be worshipped by people, people have a need to worship a God.
2006-09-06 02:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by buddhaboy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created this universe and made it a home for the creatures. So that the creatures might pay thanks to God through worship and obedience and in turn they might receive God’s blessings.
Universe is a creation of God and behind it____ is God’s Almightiness. God created the needs___ the needies____ and all the things of needs. God is God____ God is need-free and Absolute Holy.
God is Almighty. God creates whatsoever God wills to create. Each and every creature of God is answerable to God and God is not answerable to anyone.
If the worshippers worship God and obey Gods commandments, it makes no difference to God. But on the other side, it makes a lot of difference to the worshippers if they do not worship God as they become empty-hearted and remain empty-hearted until and unless they resort to God.
If the sinners sin and disobey God, it makes no difference to God but the sinful life brings a lot of difference to the sinners as the sins necessitate the curse of God.
Curse is the God ordained result of sin
While blessing is the God ordained
result of virtue.
God has already judged the sinners and the righteous, in terms of their deeds through revealing the commandments and ordaining the ways to Hell and Heaven.
Key-point to receive the blessings of God___ is to become God’s dependent by all means____ through prayers_____ and patience ____ and trust in God.
God helps and guides aright to those who ask God for God’s help and guidance.
The people who do not believe God and lead a lustful life____ are always mislead to disaster.
Worship means to consider & declare oneself lowly & helpless before a thing or a person and to consider & declare it/him as the omnipotent, the saviour, and the protector.
When a person prefers someone else upon the Lord and considers him as the saviour, the omnipotent, the protector, like that of the Lord, then, he virtually adopts the way of Satan, leaving aside the path shown by the Lord, the Holy One. Such a person, practically, seeks help/protection/prosperity from the creature instead of the Creator and thereby stamps himself, by his own hands, as an enemy of the Lord, the Holy One.
To seek help or refuge from a person, other than the Lord, considering him as the Omnipotent-Protector OR to pray or beseech before him, for expulsion of some grief or loss, and extension of some relief or gain___ is all and all___ nothing else but the worship. That is the consolidated verdict of Torah (the Law of Moses), Bhagavad-Gita, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels, the Quran and all the Scriptures. People of all the Scriptures should, therefore, resort to their Scriptures and the Message of Monotheism, contained therein. They must realize, in letter and spirit, that Omnipotent-Protector and the Creator is none, but One, the Holy One, alone. And___ worship is meant for the Creator alone___ not for the creature, the prophets, the gods, the goddesses, the idols or so on.
All-Alone Lord means that there is no God beside the All-Alone Lord. This fundamental lesson has been, altogether, forgotten while everyone knows that none on the earth or in heavens or between the both___ is greater than the Lord, the One God. Instead, every creature is lowly and helpless before the Lord.
Besides that, everyone knows that whatsoever is created___ is created by the Lord, alone. Who is the Omnipotent-Protector. Even then, the masses do not establish the pure and pious worship of the Lord. Nor they act upon the Commandments of the Lord. They do act__ but__ upon their self-assumed, satanic ways. They are the servants of Satan___ not of the Lord.
At present stage of human history, when the continued work of the Godly-guidance stands, already, perfected in terms of the long series of prophets and their Scriptures. And__ the Day of Judgement is also at hand. The masses must review, all and all of that, which is being maintained by them; in the name of faith and belief.
The ignorant must pay heed to the Scriptures and the Message of Monotheism, contained therein. Still there is some time for the Repentive Recourse to reform and recognize the actual purpose of life including the actualisation thereof.
Jesus (PBUH) had given this message in his prayer on the cross (The Psalm 22)
“Praise the Lord, you servants of the Lord
Honour the Lord,
You descendants of Jacob
Worship the Lord, you people of Israel.”
(The Psalm 22:23)
It means that praise is meant for the Lord alone. And___ to honour the Lord means to obey the Lord in terms of the Lord’s Commandments and to worship the Lord means to seek help and refuge from the Lord as the Lord is the Omnipotent-Protector alone. And___ that is the sole purpose of human life.
2006-09-06 02:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by ibn adam 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to Islam, Allah won't gain anything if all people worshiped Him, neither will He lose anything if no one worshiped Him, this is one of the basics in Islam.
You may understand this if you know that there's an endless number of angels that worship Allah (or God) before creation of people and till the Judgment Day, besides every thing other than Mankind and Satan and some of its progeny.
It's just that Allah wants people to worship Him for their own favor, yes..........for people's favor.
Tell me, which is better for you, to worship the great and only God in this universe or to worship a man like you, the sun, the moon, fire...........or whatever, of course it's better to worship Allah (the only God in the existence).
And tell me does He deserve worshiping from us, of course He deserve this, He gave you every thing you have.
He, firstly, created you when you was nothing, then He gave you parents to care for you while you was too young and weak to take care of yourself, gave you your body with its endless miraculous blessings, gave you the people you love, helped you a lot in your life,............it's impossible, for me, to mention all His favors upon every one of us.
2006-09-06 03:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by Green visitor is back :D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does not want to be worshiped by the people. It is for the peoples own interest that they pray and worship God. It gives us hope that when we are helpless we have where to turn! Prayer makes people better humans.
God has infinite power. Our prayers does not increase/decrease any of his powers.
2006-09-06 02:05:55 · answer #5 · answered by NY gal 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pardon me if I approach this from a mother's perspective.
Consider all that your parents and friends contribute to your life. You have different reasons for loving each of them, and different levels of love based on their impact in your life. Children raise this concept to an entirely new level.
So much emotional, physical, financial and psychological energy is poured into birthing, protecting, feeding, clothing, nurturing, teaching, guiding and raising a child to maturity that it is only natural to expect a modicum of respect in return for your investment.
Now, consider that we are all God's children. We can take our kids to the beach, but we cannot create complex, thriving oceans. We can hang a swing in a shady tree, but we cannot create the tree. We can invest in a telescope that will scan the universe, but we cannot create a nebula. We can explore all the weird formations that clouds create, but we cannot stop the storms. We can take kids to the doctor for help, yet the doctor can only set the stage for healing; they can mend but they cannot heal. That's God's job.
Considering all that God has invested in us, I reckon He asks much less of us than He is due.
2006-09-06 02:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by ax2usn 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
G-d wants jews to worship him because its in their best interests. he prefers that the rest of the world does too but he is happy as long as they are following a good path.
2006-09-06 01:58:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don´t know if He ever want to be worshiped or not, if he like it or not, but the main thing about Him is love, in an universal view of it, the power of love can´t be lack anywhere, its everywhere...
2006-09-06 02:19:14 · answer #8 · answered by eenz0 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has millions and millions of angels to worship Him, He doesn't need us to worship Him, it's a privilige to feel His Holy presence when i worship Him.
2006-09-06 01:59:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
An all-powerfull being can't have wants. Yet he wants us to worship him.
Bible god disproof #777532
2006-09-06 01:58:57 · answer #10 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋