my question is why do people worship other things instead of GOD?

Question

GOD says that tou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them

Answer 1

well its like the satan worshiper,s they would rather worship evil than worship a true GOD that is good, and like voodoo people like to worship the black magic, these people do not beleive in GOD that,s why they worship evil couse they would rather be in evil and hate than be in good like GOD and JESUS is.
i am hearing about there is no GOD, then how come people worship the evil,s, GOD is real just like satan is. me i am gone always worship my LORD every day and night

Answer 2

God designed us with a need to worshop something. If we cannot trust Him, we find something else...money, cars, sex, or even idols and other ficticious Gods. We have a built in desire for worship of someone or something. Thats the way God made us. None of these things will ever make us satisfied though. No matter how much money, sex, cars, or any other form of idolitry we worship, we will still not be satisfied. This is only instant gratification. Nothing can fill the God shaped vacuum in our soul but God. No matter what you obtain or worship, if it's not God, it still feels empty and meaningless at the end of the day.

Answer 3

Well here's what i think..!!!,

The reason people worship other things rather than GOD is probably because the world today is ``see to believe`` so until GOD is seen or till he does something there will always be non-believers...How can anyone believe anything about the bible without any proof and science and research is proving that there are anamolies in the book itself....how about the molesting priests? they say they joined the church cause GOD wanted them...baloney just a bunch of gay guys hiding from what they really are, so if you believe in GOD that's all you need, so till then take care and even i would like a sign from GOD and don't tell me GOD is everywhere those are children's stories.......bless you all and may you live long and prosper.....

Answer 4

Sometimes people do not realize that they are worshiping others things. I have be guilty of this. When I realize what I was doing I ask god for forgiveness. If you value money, husband, wife, friend, career/job, children, parents, or even television more than you value God then you putting things before God. Matthew 6:21 says, For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.

Answer 5

It's all about being human and being faulty.

You know the phrase, the road to hell is paved with the best intentions? Therein lies your answer.

First and formost even some of the most devout Christians worship money. Some Evangelical Baptist leaders preach that one only knows one is "saved" when one is financially secure.

That's exactly opposite to what Jesus tells us.

It can begin very innocently, then get corrupted. Good Christian parents want to raise a good Christian family. They start out just making ends meet. Suddenly one of them lands a job making serious coin. Before they know it they're all about the money and have forgotten their sound moral standards.

Some of the biggest Christian leaders of this day are all about the money. You've got people like that leading massive numbers of Christians.

Or someone in desperate need spends many hours praying for the intercession of a particular saint. When their prayers are answered they cross a line into idolatry. Put a big statue in their home and think the statue protects them. When that saint, statue or no, is looking after them.

We all have to be wary.

Answer 6

"All who acknowledge and worship any other God than the Lord the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah God Himself in human form, sin against this first commandment. Those also sin against it who persuade themselves of the actual existence of three Divine persons from eternity. For as they confirm themselves in that error, they become more and more natural and corporeal, and at length are unable to comprehend interiorly any Divine truth; and if they listen to it and accept it, they still defile it and cover it up with fallacies. They may therefore be compared to those who dwell in the lowest story or the cellar of a house, and in consequence hear nothing of the conversation of those who are in the second and third stories, because the floor above their heads keeps the sound from penetrating to them. [2] The human mind is like a house of three stories, in the lowest of which are those who have confirmed themselves in favor of three Gods from eternity, while in the second and third stories are those who acknowledge and believe in one God under a visible human form, and that the Lord God the Savior is He" (True Christian Religion n. 296).

Answer 7

Do you mean like people who work seven days a week for the almighty dollar? Or people who ignore their children so that they can worship themselves in our "me, me, it's all about ME" era? Or people who max out their credit cards to have cars, boats, and houses that they can't afford?

I think that EVERYONE should really look at what it is that they worship. People these days bow down and serve themselves!!!

Answer 8

your question is very vague, Why do you worship Jesus ?? the same thing applies to all worship,we always worship and serve the one God of us all,though we my do it through any and all of his manifested parts.calling God many,many names, if you worship jesus or anyone or anything else without the full awareness you are worshipping GOD,you are performing idolitry.

Answer 9

God has put it in all of us the need to worship. So sometimes people pick the wrong god... maybe sports or alcohol instead.

Answer 10

A lot of people just don't believe in God--I think that is why. They don't believe because they can't see Him, and they feel that He has never revealed Himself to them.