Think about it, what kind of people need constant praise? Insecure people....why? For reassurance. It's like a bodybuilder walking around and waiting for someone to say 'wow, you're strong'. The bodybuilder obviously knows this, so hoping for it and wanting it is more or less reassurance is it not?
If God is above insecurity and reassurance, why would God care if we praised God or not? If God does need praise and constantly needs it, doesn't that kind of make you afraid that the controller of all things is secretly insecure?
YIKES!!!!!
2006-11-10 10:26:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Uh, no. God loves us and as our Heavenly Father he loves affection from children as does any parent.
2006-11-10 10:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by WonderWoman 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Praise is done, not for God, but for us. When we praise God we lift our ego-centric self identities upward and this helps us realize that there is more in this world than us and gives us a sense of unity with the world. Praise and worship is a form of meditation...a way of focusing the mind. So is prayer and reading and memorizing sacred texts. The idea is to focus the mind on something other than itself...to calm it and refocus it. Since God dwells within all things and all people, when we lift our attention from our ego to God, we are in fact turning our attention inward. Deep inward. But this requires focusing the mind on something else. It's a lot like being in love with a person. You love this person and you tell them that you love them all the time. You stop thinking about yourself and suddenly all you can think about is just wanting to ensure that they are happy, well taken care of, and that they know just how much you love them. The other person feels the same way and so the two people are caring for each other mutually and have stopped having to worry about their own needs because the other is always there to complete the cycle and fulfill those needs. It's sort of like this. The outer Self (ego) works to praise something it believes is outside of itself (God) and in the process of praising and loving what it believes is outside of itself this love is then turned towards the inner Self (soul). Because of maya (illusion) we believe that the outer Self is seperate from the inner Self and that both are seperate from God and yet God (consciousness) is the unified whole. Through the process of renunciation through love the outer Self and the inner Self are able to realize that there is only the Self and that the Self is equivalent to God, from which it manifested from. Praise, like any other form of meditation, then lifts the veil of illusion and helps us to see the true reality of our true nature of our Self & God.
Just my humble thoughts as a Hindu.
2006-11-10 18:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You hit on a key observation: why is god so much like a human, rather than like a god?
Probably because he was created by man.
2006-11-10 18:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
with all the non-believers like myself, he must need constant affirmation that he still exists
2006-11-10 18:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by Cartman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yikes too! hehehe...
2006-11-10 18:30:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋