1. Its easy to rely on another person (a girlfriend or a wife) instead of God to meet our deepest needs, why do you think most of us struggle with this idea?
2006-10-29 16:48:45 · 10 answers · asked by Sam C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think the people who encourage people to *choose* to "rely on God" instead of a helpmate as a general rule are mistaken...
It's the entire reason why God instituted marriage that we would need that person to fulfill our deepest need... especially the need to learn how to be selfless.
2006-10-29 16:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you were not raised with a spiritual side to your life then you would depend on the closest persons to you to gratify your needs.
But many people have a spiritual side cultivated from infancy. These people realize that mankind is limited in what they can do.
But God is available to listen to you 24/7 and has the power to do something to help.
When you are so depressed and cannot talk to anyone God loves you so much he saves your tears and feels sorry for you.
All you have to do is ask , and if it is according to his will he will answer your prayer.
That is why so many men allow their wife to go to church while they stay at home...they feel she will cover the spiritual side and he will deal with the physical.
But each of us is accountable for ourselves. We are all alone when it comes to integrity and being humble and good enough so that God will remember us and bless us.
2006-10-29 16:58:55 · answer #2 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah yeah, PRWG (personal relationship with god) otherwise known as "religion" but gee let's not call it that and let's not call a pyramid scheme what it is. Once the mind has accepted that it is perfectly fine to not call things as they are but as you would like them to be then anything goes doesn't it. What used to be something you developed in real life with real people has been redefined to something that occurs in people's mind instead. Once such deviations from reality are deemed true and self validating then it doesn't seem absurd to see a woman who has no food in her home to feed her family go out and spend every last dime on donating the time labor and what food she cannot afford to raise money for her wealthy preacher. People who have crossed over into delusion should have their heads examined before they harm themselves and those close to them.
2016-05-22 06:46:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man wants to do anything after understanding it.
We don't understand human to be able to relate with him/her.
It is easy to relate with a fictitious concept called God - because that concept can be suited to our own needs.
Neither religion, nor science has been able to define human conduct in an umambiguous and study-able manner. Such human-relationships are based on ambiguity. A relationship based on ambiguity eventually lands up in struggle or argument. No-one likes those situations, and therefore one turns for solace to places where certainity could be there. Religion/God offers such solace. This solace doesn't give lasting satisfaction to man. Nor does it provide a basis for relating with other humans - the concept of God is for its own ends. You worship God - so that God will be happy. You don't do wrong things - so that God will not be angry with you. etc etc. Religious people live in this conflict.
Science sees man as a subjective, complex entity - whose consciousness it is unable to explain. It says that consciousness emerges from matter. And the consciousness stops - with death. Science is unable to define human conduct. All experiements of Science have been done either on dead, or by trying to see the similarity of humans with animals. Seeing humans and their relationships, and the human imagination's capability, and human role in the existence - hasn't come to the grasp of Science. In this sense, Science has reached its dead-end.
Now what's needed? Understanding human, human goal, humanity, and human-order.
2006-10-29 17:50:24 · answer #4 · answered by Rakesh Gupta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can see and feel and touch our spouse....we know they love us and we rely on them when we need something. We know we love them back and we support them in their times of need.
With God, we need to believe in something that we sense is there. Sometimes we can almost feel the presence of a Higher Power, and sometimes we are shocked by circumstances that we cannot explain by anything other than "divine intervention".
We struggle....because we know that we aren't sure. Is it our imagination or is it real? God, I think is somehow, inexplicably real.....but how do we prove it?
2006-10-29 17:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easy to do so and we struggle because we are human and sometimes, we lack faith. It's something one should bring up with God.
2006-10-29 16:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our struggles start when we start trusting others and forgetting about God. Again if we simply started to trust God and believe in him more life would be so much easier...
2006-10-29 16:55:27 · answer #7 · answered by Commander 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cuz a gf or wife are physical and thats familar to us. God who is spirit is harder to rely on cuz we cant see him
2006-10-29 16:49:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A girlfriend or wife is tangible, your able to see them, touch them, you know they are real. God is not tangible.
2006-10-29 16:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same question but earlier was someone now its girlfirend or wife,,,, rely it to ur boyfriend than
2006-10-29 16:51:14 · answer #10 · answered by harry d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋