Can you really love a figment of the imagination? If I love someone, or something, its based on real relationship or knowledge of...does anyone have this with "God".
I know I know, all the wackos claim they have a relationship, but so do lunatics in an asylum right? Does a lunatic really love Napolean, as in the real-time relationship sense of it? Hows a lunatics love for Naplolean or Patton, any different than that special ole relationship you got?
Put it another way. Suppose God is real (I dont know myself), and suppose he decided to make a "heaven". Ok, so you go before him and start to speak -- "Lord, I have waited to see you, Ive always loved you and enjoyed our neat little relationship".
God "What? Oh, you mean all those times you asked for a sign and then pretended that the chorus of the next song on the radio was God-code? LOL...little being, you think me a game-player...if i wished to speak to you, i would have SPOKE!"
2006-11-15 13:00:57 · 27 answers · asked by Speech Hating Monkey 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well I do. I love God because he IS my heavenly Father and I'm not wacko. I don't think you are a wacko just because you don't believe in God. I could sit around and say nasty things about you but I won't. If this makes you feel better, to attack people who believe in God and God himself, can't no one stop you. God Bless and have a nice day
2006-11-15 13:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't think that anyone who has this point of view could ever possibly love God. If you consider God to be a figment of the imagination, you are certainly not going to love it. That would be stupid.
I'm thinking of your parallel between love of God and a lunatic loving a dead historical figure. Perhaps you would understand it a touch more if you considered instead star worship. "Antonio Bandaras? I just love him!" "Ooh, I love Angelina Jolie." Are those people wackos? Assume, of course, that they are not stalking the stars, ok?
I'm sure that there are people who are just in love with the idea of God. Who wouldn't be? An all-powerful being who loves you and watches over you?
On the other hand, I find it somewhat amusing that you assume that God never has SPOKEN to man. God is not a game-player. I know that I can't convince you either way, so I'm not going to try. But I know that God is real, and that he knows me personally. I know that he can answer my prayers (which are NOT requests for SIGNS) in diverse ways, including the chorus of a song on the radio reminding me of what I already know. It is very much the same as when my mother would "tell" me that she loved me by leaving a stack of clean laundry on my bed, or that my dad would "tell" me that he cared by making sure that the oil in my car got changed on time.
Besides, it is pretty hard to deny God when a real actual angel catches you during a potentially fatal fall from a fourth-floor balcony and prevents your death. So, I LOVE GOD because of a REAL relationship with him.
2006-11-15 21:41:29 · answer #2 · answered by englishxana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people are quite limited in their understanding of reality. They don't know the difference between real, imagined, experience and illusion. Some people are convinced that they have the truth, when all that they have is a little fragment of a lie.
So, those who claim to know that those who have an experience with something that is greater than them are wrong are acting on incomplete knowledge. To be able to judge what another person calls a relationship, one has to know all of the facts, and that's simply impossible.
Spiritual experiences are by definition, unable to be completely understood objectively. The fact that something is subjective does not mean that it is false.
The placebo effect is well documented. People with real diseases have faith that a treatment will work. These people are cured with the treatment. Were they not sick to begin with? The disease was diagnosed and documented. Were the people not cured? It was documented that this happened. Real diseases, such as cancer and others have been cured in this fashion.
The fact that things can happen simply through the belief of people is documented. This may not prove the existence of some God, but it does show that belief itself has value.
I'm certainly not going to argue with it. Maybe we make our own gods, but in any event, believing in something has real value.
2006-11-15 21:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The true Heathens do not believe or love God. Any Group that has done so many in-humane torture to any human being would not love God. Truely an evil spirit, would only hate God or go against anything good. Ya you have spoken and God will be the last words spoken. He will get the last words in and then I would like to see what words you have to say, when He forgives you and lets you enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. I pray that God will FORGIVE YOU !!
2006-11-15 21:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Were do you find that this is a figment of the imagination? It must have been a big imagination for all these men who were chosen that wrote the books of truth yes referring to the bible. They were from diffrent areas too farfrom each other to come into contact and exchange references to create a masterpiece.Tell me is that God or Imagination?
I know that when I see God no words will be needed. I may just simply cry from happiness.
2006-11-15 21:10:19 · answer #5 · answered by Happy2bAlive 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you read some great pages of history, you will realize how the Founders of world religions and their followers love the One True God. They sacrify their possessions, their reputations, their lives, their all just for magnifying the name of God.
Without Their presence on earth, you cannot know what is love and how to happily conduct your precious life in love.
God allows you to deny Him, although He loves you entirely, so remember about your responsibility in making your choice. I say you should remember, because there are already so many people who boast about their temporary achievements, and when they suffer bitterly they say why God is so unjust to them.
2006-11-15 21:19:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are merely reflecting man's nature of rejecting God and and demonstrating a complete inability to seek His face. You're proving Calvinism, in other words. Let's hope that changes.
2006-11-15 21:25:27 · answer #7 · answered by ccrider 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlike the figments of Napoleon or Patton, our "figment" says that he love His children, and he has spoken. Unfortunately, no one speaking to you in loving terms...OR HIS HE? You may never know...unless, of course, you bow a knee!
2006-11-15 21:09:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can not possibly love God unless He has drawn you to Him. You will never know God until He draws you to Him. You can't discern God things until He draws you to Him. He chooses us.As long as you are alive there is hope that He will draw you. You may choose to ignore Him when He does tho. When you reject Him you turn yourself over to the enemy.You surrender to the wrong one. Then you have all those bad thots. I hope God will draw you to Himself. I hope you didn't tell Him no.
2006-11-15 21:09:06 · answer #9 · answered by MSNRY 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the end, only what is true matters, not truth according to me, but truth according to God.
I relate to God.I have a child who often disdains me, so does he. I relate
He offers kindness and has it rejected......the same has happened to me I relate.
I have to agree that people credit God with speaking when he hasn't and I have myself been guilty of that.
Belief and truth are so often mutually exclusive
2006-11-15 21:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by oneman 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋