Why does God have needs? And if He doesn't then why would He create us if He didn't need anything from us? I mean if He loves us then He is vunerable because anything that feels compassion also feels pain. Why would God want to feel pain if He controls the universe? But if God chooses to feel pain so that He can also feel love, wouldn't that make Him not all-powerful?
2006-09-30 17:55:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well obviously He desired to create us because He did. Why does God want to be loved, but He Himself does not want to feel our pain?
2006-09-30 18:02:56 · update #1
So God desires our love, but does not need us...why would He banish people in Hell unless He got some kind of satisfaction out of it? You can say the Devil is the reason for it, but God could easily put those tortured souls out of their misery. If there is a Hell than God desires it or else He is not all-powerful.
2006-09-30 18:05:49 · update #2
You obviously don't have the answers if you just telling me to go to church.
2006-09-30 18:06:36 · update #3
Don't you think anyone could've put that in the Bible to cover all the holes in its story? I don't know just using Occum's Razor here.
2006-09-30 18:07:56 · update #4
So you're saying God has instincts? B/c we have children because of our instincts.
2006-09-30 18:26:00 · update #5
No.
Love, no matter how powerful or mighty you are can be painful when you watch what you love being destroyed.
We were made in his image, thus we have many of his qualities such as fealing pain through love.
2006-09-30 17:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
God does not have the need for anything as he is all encompassing. He is alfa and omega and the Almighty one.
God is a god of love and he has tender mercy for mankind so yes he feels emotions after all he created man after his own image,but before you get started man did have a choice and after spending time with God himself man still blew it and they knew before hand that they were not to do one thing and if they did there would be a consequence--sin punishable by death.
God is a loving and compassionate God-Good thing too or mankind would have no way out, but he gave us a way by--through the sacrifice of his only begotten son Jesus Christ.
Hell is just a word translated from other works that were original words of the bible and that was Greek and Hebrew and hell mean a grave , a common grave -not a place were demons live.
In fact if you knew anything at all about the bible then you would know that a battle took place in heaven not so long ago and Satin and all of his demon were hurld to the earth and Satin is now the ruler of the earth at this time.
2006-10-01 01:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by ~♥ L ♥~ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are many mysteries of which God never promised that everyone would understand. Does God have needs? I don't know. And so on, and so on. Why would God create us if He didn't have needs? I don't know. For any one of a ka-billion reasons He may have chosen. He never said, ' I guarantee that you and you and you will all understand. He did speak of mysteries however. And as far as ' God wanting to feel pain ' and ' God choosing to feel pain ', how the heck would you know what He chose. But...He did say something about questioning Him and how dare you something or another didn't He ?? I truly hope you find some type of resolution to your questions, but I think you might want to PRAY to Him first. God Bless
2006-10-01 01:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith, you have heard of that, right, by faith
Not by understanding with your feelings or anything stilling with you. Just accept the fact that God loves you and has a great plan for your whole life. All God wants is some time for you to listen to his plans for your life, walking and listening to God each day and he left a book for us to read and study, it is called the Bible and if you have any questions about what you are reading, you will need a teacher/minister, at your church, someone to ask all your questions, maybe your Pastor. Would be nice to get into a Bible study group or a class, there again you will be able to ask all questions. Get a prayer life, where you get away with just you and God and you can talk to God and tell him your feelings, thanking God for everything, every day of your life. Share God's loves with everybody, all your family & friends.
2006-10-01 01:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by yeslord2004 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1&2. God doesn't have needs, we do. He is Love, and His DESIRE is to share His love.
3. Vulnerability is a human concept based on our mortality. God is immortal and immutable, so He is 'invulnerable'.
4. A teacher must know what his student is experiencing if he is going to actually TEACH the student. God CHOSE to feel pain, and even death at the Cross, so He could speak to us from evidential relevance; it gives to Him a testimony of actual understanding, unlike the college educated engineer who has never built anything.
5. I have the ability to crush the keyboard I am typing on with relative ease. I choose not to. Choosing to restrain power is not weakness, in fact, it is a higher demonstration of power. The ability to choose not to exercise power demonstrates an element of power not often found within mankind. And the power God is restraining is absolute power.
I do not know if you will accept any of this, but it's on the table. God has intervened into the lives of millions of people in physical and tangible ways, and until you choose to believe those witnesses, most likely the only way you will experience God is in His justice system.
2006-10-01 01:59:17 · answer #5 · answered by claypigeon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While I would normally answer each and every question you have asked from your somewhat anti-christian state of mind. This time, however, I will just answer the first question with a question to you,
"If you were an all powerfull being with an infinite amount of time on your hands, what would you do? Would you sit around and go though all the questions possible that you already know the answer to inside your head? Or would you do something worthwhile with your un-ending amount of knowledge and understanding?" (Which in our case would be creating us, and everything we humans know.)
Of course, in reality the reasons god created us are infinitely more complex than my question, and, perhaps, when judgement day comes we will know the answer to your very valid question, and all others.
2006-10-01 01:12:02 · answer #6 · answered by mare0705 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all God exists on a plane of his own perfect existance. He needs nothing because perfection requires nothing. Creation is part of a perfect existance, So is love and compassion. Therefore pain and doubt do not exist along side with God because there is no pain or doubt in a perfect existance. Also in this is the reason God does not just come to our plane and talk to us directly. He cannot exist in our plane of non-perfection and ignorance. Hence the holy spirit and our spiritual link to him through Jesus Christ. Therefore pain and destruction are a result of the inconsistancy of our plane. Love, Compassion and doubt are merely the origination of our existance and our choice as dictated by a perfect existance as god created free will. What is choice without something to choose. The tree but the perfection of the choice of free will. We are not god. We are not perfect. What is control but the perfect ability to make what it to be perfect, perfect. This is what makes God, God
2006-10-01 01:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by accessmemorex 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we try to understand and define God by our own human understanding we will fail at it miserably.
God wrote his word to us in words that we can understand, this does not mean that by understanding what he gave us to understand that we will understand all things about God.
He has given us the ability to understand only what he wants us to understand.
So, to define him by our own limited knowledge would be impossible. For instance, we talk about emotions and feelings.
Gods written word states that he was grieved that he had created us. To us this means that he was sorry that he ever created us. To God this could mean this and so much more that we do not understand and have not been given the ability to understand.
We do not know everything, and the written word of God tells us that we do not know everything. But what is written, we are to read, study and strive to understand. It is the living word, so the more we read it and study it and ask for understanding, the more that will be revealed to us by our all knowing, all powerful creator.
Try this human example
We do not need the candy bar, we desire it.
We see a bug on it or in it, we no longer desire it.
We have the power to set it aside and forget about it, or to throw it away. We can also choose to flick the bug off and keep the rest of it.
No matter what we decide to do with it, we are still in control of it and hold all power over it.
We were not wrong to desire it, we were not wrong to decide what to do with it once it was contaminated. We wish it had not been contaminated, but we deal with the fact that it now is.
None of this makes us wrong, and we still hold all power and control over what we do with it and when.
2006-10-01 01:06:03 · answer #8 · answered by cindy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
His need is for us the people to praise and worship him. When Adam sinned, he(Adam) brought pain unto God so now God looks at sin as a stinch in his nose(foul odor) And God is all powerful b4 Jesus came if you sinned and he felt you sinned your last sin then you were dead right where you stood. Now you can repint. So God shows you tough love.
2006-10-01 04:45:09 · answer #9 · answered by Mila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not have needs. He is self-sufficient. He created us for His glory and expression. He loves us because he chooses to, not because he needs us. He does not feel pain. He only felt pain when taking on human form in Christ. His humanity took on pain.
2006-10-01 01:00:26 · answer #10 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋