2007-02-06 00:26:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you disagreeing with Gods motives, or motives people have made up and attributed to God?
love and blessings Don
2007-02-06 00:38:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I find it impossible that a finite, flawed, mortal being could even begin to *contemplate* the motives of an infinite, total, divinity.
Humans can't even visualize 4th dimensional constructs readily, much less the idea of infinity, timelessness, omnicience, etc.. You don't have a *CLUE* what God's motives are, and neither does any religion, simply because no human mind, or collective of human minds, can comprehend anything close to the "thought processes of God"..
You can't disagree with what you do not know.
You *can* however, very much disagree with what some other Human, or power structure of humans, tells you are God's Motives. As a matter of fact, I highly encourage you to do so. If the Divine wants you to do something, you'd better believe he/she/it is more than capable of letting you know directly. Anybody claiming to "know the Mind of God" for everybody, or to speak FOR God, is just on a powertrip and is out to control you, or to manipulate you into doing what THEY (not God) want you to do.
Can a pebble on the shore know the fullest expanse of the ocean, and everything in it, at all times? Can a man know this? Can a group of men? No. So how, pray tell, can they know a Divinity who is one with every atom in the universe, and directs the destiny of All that Is?
Love God, disagree with what people Tell you God's motives are, and make your own determinances of that based upon your OWN life and experience. If the Divine wants to communicate anything to you, that's where you'll find it, not in some several thousand year old musty book, or in the words of some man out for money and furtherance of an agenda.
2007-02-06 08:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by druegan2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An interesting though. What would be the motivation of a God. Religion from my observations seems to personalize a relationship with the Deity and yet rational thinking leads me to believe that this is akin to insects personalizing their existence for our benefit and by this association we are enhancing their life somehow. Given this framework, granted an over simplification; yet simple does seem to work best in explanations and hypotheses, it would appear logical that God or Gods are self motivated and our existent is a mere accent or ambient effect, as butterflies are to us in our joyous observations of beauty or as mosquito's would be in terms of annoyance. God then may be motivated by self indulgence and with the time frame of forever to work within I'd say it's possible that amusing happenstance are what pleases God, something to break up the monotony. God may like humour and if this is so then it is our obligation to follow the divine path and amuse ourselves. If such is the case I'm certainly on the right path! I love God under these aspects and I completely agree with the motivation.
2007-02-06 08:40:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's motives are that apart from loving God one love God's part and parcel the other living entities. If one cannot love God, then one cannot agree with the motive of the Lord to love one's neighbour and the whole universe.
If one love God, he follows the motive of the Lord and he loves his neighbours automatically, for Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God says to love one's neighbours. Expanding the idea little further, not just the neighbour, one loves the whole creation because God has created it.
Therefore it is not possible to love God and disagree with his motives. If you love God you not only agree with his motives but follow the instruction and order of God.
For instance,one cannot break the ten commandments given by God through moses and then claim to love God.
Such a false claim is just hypocrisy and not honesty.
2007-02-06 09:40:42 · answer #4 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well First thing keep in mind that God has created us for a purpose.
What is the purpose.?
He sent us in earth and with eveil and good as well. So that He could choose pious people among us. Who are not only love Him but do what God said to them.
Lets take a example your Boss is very keen to you personally and he gives youe some extra pay bounses etc etc... as he is good.
Now you want to show some thing to him but only keep saying that i repsect u Sir i love u etc etc will not be enough . but u will also try to show him something that he will realise that yes my man really love me.
Seondly God can also judge us but to show off him is neccessary.
So keep in mind no challenge against God and his motives because our creation is the purpose of working for GOD against Eveil So that you and me could be survive in next world
Hope that will answer question
2007-02-06 08:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Usman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which of "His motives" do you disagree with? The Almighty YHVH created this world very good. Once man sinned, he could no longer meet the requirements of YHVH. Because of His great love for man, He sent His son the Savior. The Savior's name means YHVH is my Savior!--YAHOSHUA! The only way one can have his sins taken care of is to invite the Savior in to carry them. If a person chooses to remain attached to their sins, they will be consumed in the cleansing fire the Almighty will send to cleanse this world so He can make it new! How could the Almighty be more generous?
2007-02-06 08:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, because if you love God, you will follow Him. It is said that we should love God and love our neighbor ( Matthew 22:37-40) .
" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Therefore you should love God and love your neighbor.
1 John 4:7-11 says " 7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. "
1 John 4:19-21 says, " We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."
Therefore you should love God and love your neighbor.
If you love God and not love your neighbor, you do not really love God.
As a conclusion, it is impossible to love God and disagree with His motives.
2007-02-06 08:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who are you that makes you think that you can know God's motives?
2007-02-06 09:20:34 · answer #8 · answered by jomi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I see His motive as His will.
2007-02-06 08:32:29 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO
2007-02-06 08:30:27 · answer #10 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋