2007-01-31 05:53:42 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you refuse to glorify the Great Pikachu(pbuh) then you`ll suffer the electric shocks...that`s why.
2007-01-31 05:57:12 · answer #1 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Ahh, the beauty of dogma and misinterpretation takes its toll on another.
Look up "to glorify". It basically means praise, be thankful for, appreciate etc.
Check out the definition of God, or whatever Divinity since we love to pick things apart over the names we give them. Bottom line is pretty much all them say something like this:
"The sum total of everything. The begining and the end. The absolute All".
So what are we really talking about when we say glorify God? Appreciating, exalting the sum total of everything. Seeing the beauty and perfection of the WHOLE without diminishing it by segregation into discrete elements of time or space. It's pretty good advice if you think about it. And NO most people definitely do NOT do it, not even a small majority.
The big picture, the sum total, it's pretty. It's harmonious and perfect. It's been around for a very long time and will be around for even longer still.
Things start getting a bit less pretty when we begin to divide them into things like "yours", "theirs" and "mine". Or any division actually, but that's my favorite because we like to kill people over that particular man-made distinction.
The mind, our mind, scientifically speaking, acts to fulfill our expectations. It bears out and brings into clarity at an automatic level those things that we focus our interests on. So, glorify the sum total and things start looking better. And believe it not when things look better they are better.
You can argue that whole ignorance is bliss thing, but we as a nation are more ignorant of the positive that is happening in our country and the world than the negative by a long shot. Positive just doesn't make good news.
Try it, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Oh, and get past the dogma. Everything religious always comes with one portion useful truth and three heaping portions of dogma. Get around the dogma and you find the good stuff.
2007-01-31 14:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by paradigm_flux 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glorifying God is the big picture of the purpose of our life. How we are to individually glorify God is the secret to our life that each of us has to find the answer to. We are all created special and unique. Not one of us is an accident. It is in pursuing our intimate, one on one personal relationship with God that He reveals to us how we are to bring God the glory in the expression of how we live our life.
Have you identified and are pursuing the true purpose of your creation? Do you know the work, the job that God created you for? Have you identified the gifts that God gave you that are of and from Him to help you accomplish the work He has for you? Have you found and are walking on the center of the path that your heavenly Father, your Creator, The Living God that brought all life forth, made just for you?
Are you choosing to pursue your own direction and purpose without and in spite of God?
Since you have never experienced God's glory up close and in person or glorifying God with your life and the choices you make you are unable to comprehend the value and even exctasy of what it truly means to give God the credit and the glory of who He made you to be. If you had experienced this in person you would be unable to maintain such a finite view of your life, the lives of those around you and of God and who He is.
Your understanding of glory is from mankinds perspective and is only a shadow of what the glory of God really is. If you are a seeker of truth I encourage you to discover this on your own. God is big enough to work with your insecurities and your fears and still reveal Himself to you in a way that is tangible and real.
2007-01-31 14:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by David R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You make it sound like it's a chore. To glorify God means to obey His commands, but live as the special creation you were meant to be. For instance, if you're a doctor and you're obeying His commands and letting Him live through your life, you will be the best doctor you can be, people will see that and want the joy you have, and will give their lives to Him and join the heavenly family of God. He loves us and just wants the best for us, and created us individually; like an artist.
2007-01-31 14:17:17 · answer #4 · answered by hopem 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Glorifying God is what do angels, so it's a Honour to do it and it's a Honour to be a worshipper, as it was a Honour in the glorious past to be next to the King or the Queen, if you don't want to, then you will not, you can not live in the palace of God, in His Castle, and as there is no other place to live in, you have to live outside and outside the Castle is Hell.
2007-01-31 14:08:17 · answer #5 · answered by Elie S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey Sho-Nuff ....its been a while!
Please don't get hung up on the word 'glorify'.
You provide a good example to show that it is wisest to use a wide variety of translations.
Would you accept:
Respect.
Appreciate.
Honor.
Co-operate with.
Speak well of
?????????????
2007-01-31 14:03:10 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask God "why." He tells us that he created all of creation, even us, for himself and that all of creation is designed to glorify to God--that is to shout his praises.
Trying to view God through our human perspective is futile. His ways are not our ways. If they were, he wouldn't be God.
2007-01-31 14:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by happygirl 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God does not require this from us --some religions make it sound like god is a big child saying love me, love me or I'll ****** burn you in hell..So the creator doesn't need this type of praise--but stupid is as stupid does..
2007-01-31 14:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by Art 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We were created for His pleasure. No there aren't enough people yet because He desires for NO ONE to go to hell. He wants everyone to repent and that will bring Him glory as He's the one who can really change a life.
2007-01-31 13:58:29 · answer #9 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Naaaa .... God gets real lonely! God likes people!
Peace & Love
2007-01-31 13:58:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋