If God exists, what does God really want from us?

Question

I am asking in the Philosophy category, not in the Religion & Spirituality category.

Answer 1

To think and act completely different from apes, so as to evolve our amazing abilities of self-control, memory, and learning.

If you study the behavior of apes and study the behavior of primitive tribal societies, you will find amazing similarities. Also, humans that become too impulsive eventually become depressed or schizophrenic, and depression and schizophrenia lead to lack of adequate serotonin production in the brain, leading to memory and learning problems, because the parts of the brain associated with memory and learning begin to shrink.

Earnest prayer and altruistic acts of righteousness for the creator of the universe, and out of hope of being rewarded with eternal residence in Cockaigne, leads people to gain immense serotonin production in their brain, which coincidentally also leads to a strong immune system.

Furthermore, God wants us to be mentally, physically, and socially healthy through being spiritually healthy.

Answer 2

I am glad you pointed out the category distinction, because I think it is an important one. Too many people say the minute you use the word "God" you are talking about religion. Not necessarily, because first one would need to define God, which is the job of philosophy, and to understand what terms like "worship" mean, and the ethical basis for believing in certain practices of certain religions, etc.

Yes, we can talk about God here.

To know what He or She wants from us, we would have to have a decent understanding of who or what He or She is. Naturally. I mean, if we are to pick up evidence from our senses as to what God wants of us, then we need to know what relationship we believe God has to our senses.

Where do you see God? In some hard-to-define voice or analog of a voice in your head? In the words you read in some sacred text? In a statue or symbol that you have never bothered to differentiate from that which it symbolizes, or which you have analyzed in this way?

The minute you try to gain evidence for what God wants you to do from your environment and your experiences, you are into the realm of personal differences regarding the nature of God. So the answer in the philosophy department, if you will, is that each person has a very personal response to this question, and the way they arrive at that response is also going to be very personal. I believe the technical term most people understand is Free Will.

So what does your Free Will tell you God really wants from you? Presumably you do have some things which you can label "virtues," whether or not you use the corresponding term "vice." Sounds logical to assume any god worth worshiping wants you to pursue virtue and avoid vice. Can we get that far without conflict?

Back to the very personal nature of these choices. And with free will, it is choices we are talking about, which is why I resist having the word "choice" be copyrighted by one particular side of one particular debate.

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Dumbledore

Answer 3

My Philosophy is that, there exists a power, some sort of energy that keeps the whole universe in a stable form, including the earth. I refer to that power as God.

A living body is a smaller source of energy, which is a part of the supreme source, that's why I believe there is God present in each one of us.

When we creat an imbalance in our own energy, it actually effects the supreme energy since we add up to it, this creats instability in the universe. Imbalance in oneself is created by generating or accumulating more negative energy than positive energy. I believe the deeds we do result in that.

To answer your second question, God wants us NOT to do things that would lead to creating or disrupting te energy stability within us.

Answer 4

Lemme get this straight....the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years, exceeds ordinary human comprehension...right? a time interval vastly greater than all of human history.

Another thousand times farther takes us to distant cluster of galaxies, but even then, that would be less than one ten-thousandths of a percent of the observable Universe. We are mere specks in an abyss of time and space.

With that backgroud, you're telling me that there's a supernatural being or sentient lifeform out there that's worried about wanting something from me?....don't make me laugh.

Did you know that there's a certain percentage of scientists who believe in God, even Einstein spoke of him often. But the greatest number of non-believing scientists are the astonomers.

The hundred billion galaxies of our visible universe, each with a hundred billion stars, makes us but a grain of sand on the Sahara, grown out of that original "pure vacuum" or nothingness.

Answer 5

I think it has to be for the individual to discover the answer to your question, for themselves.
Just my opinion but I believe we are all given lessons, different to the next, to learn from. All experiencing a different lesson, some many to share the lessons learned. If we all had the same lessons then we would be limited to discovering wisdom and wisdom is knowledge learned by living.
Individuals, living as separates in the whole to learn differently, discover for ourselves and learn from others to help each other for a better tomorrow ;)

Answer 6

God wants us to find our purpose of life. What we are really here for. He wants us to be proactive. He wants us to control our centre of mind.
Our purpose of life is clear, attainment of salvation which can be attained only by practising the right virtues of life, right education and so on. This is what God wants from us. He doesn't exist anywhere. He's in ourselves. We have to find Him and ask Him. In other words we have to believe in ourselves and set out our mind for a clear goal.

Answer 7

Be Happy. To live a life of accomplishment and fulfillment. To be thoroughly used up! To make difference.It could take a lot of work which means a lot of learning. Through him and life!

Answer 8

an Oyster and Shrimp Po'boy Dressed, with Tobasco. Woot.

Answer 9

I can't answer this question in any other way....
God wants us to Love Him and Obey His Commands. It's that simple.

Answer 10

You can only learn if you are open, so "I" [God) want all you humans to open up and see The Truth of Life.