Do you agree that God can't be what you want Him to be?

Question

That our personal desires do not reflect the truth?

Answer 1

God is, regardless of my personal desires.

Whether or not He is what I want Him to be depends on whether or not I have aligned my desires with Who He is, not vice versa.

Answer 2

I agree.
The premise puts one on the same plane with God.
Arrogance is not a good position to take when coming to God.
It worked out really bad for Lucifer.

Answer 3

God is what God is. Maybe that is why the Judeo/Christian faith says that God's name is "I am what I am" (usually translated as Yahwah or Jehovah). God exist. Therefore He has a real personality, He has specific traits about Him, and there are things that are actually true and actually false taught about Him.

There is why only an organized religion could possible know the full truth about God. He is simply too large, too vast, and too complex for any one individual to understand. Just as no one individuals has ever, on his own, discovered everything from counting to adding to multiplication to binary logics to trigonometry to statistics with calculus to advanced theoritical mathematics in a single lifetime, so no inidividuals could ever discover the fullness of God on his own in a single lifetime.

To learn math (or science, or history, or anything) you have to study what has gone before, learn the truths that have already been discovered, and build on those with your own revelation. It is the same with God.

That is why God has revealed himself in a library of books that give a progressive revealtion of Himself over thousands of year, through hundreds of lives and dozens of authors. Each drawning from those before them, and foreshadowing the revelations to come.

Whether it was Abraham learning that there was only one God, not many, and that He did not require human sacrifices. Or Moses being given laws for society, morals, health and rituals. Whether David learning how to simply praise and worship in the presence of God. Each looking forward to the Christ who was to come. Abraham seeing the ram God would provide Himself. Moses laying out the celebration of the Passover and other rituals that foreshadow the ultimate sacrifice for sin. David seeing the One who would hang on a cross for our redemption.

That revelation came to completion when God Himself appeared in human form as Jesus Christ. The fullness of the revelation is shown in the words and deeds He performed and the understand of those deeds in His followers letters and writings.

So I agree, God is not just what you want Him to be. He is what He is. And He has made the understanding of Himself clear in the Bible. Read it some time to get the truth about Him.

Answer 4

Yes. If the Deity has a plan, how can it be altered by bended knees and lighted candles when it cannot be altered by the screams of hunger and pain of the starving masses? Just because one BELIEVES the know the truth of the Deity doesn't mean they actually do.

so sez i.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Our personal desires are not a good indicator of truth. I agree.

God isn't what I want him to be. He is what he is. I like what he is. I want my desires to conform to his desires.

Answer 8

Another great point - you're on a role today

that is exactly what organized religions do, which is why I won't have anything to do with them - the Creator is beyond our ability to comprehend the full nature of, so when people define the Creator, they are doing it to serve their own selfish agendas

Answer 9

Absolutely! Billions of people around the world want him to be real... but he can't.

Answer 10

The older I get, the more glad I am for it, because I realize how narrow minded and futile I am.