2007-02-07 03:16:35 · 26 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Keep the hat it suits you?
2007-02-07 03:22:50 · update #1
If only it were that simple. My husband is Christian and I am an Eclectic Spiritualist. Oh my ... We clash all the time because something like what you asked. He is so gung ho and narrow on his religion. Uh...
2007-02-07 03:21:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jen of Eve 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In essence you are right. People will invariably choose the religion that best suits what they already believe about a higher power.
If they were taught a certain set of beliefs as a child, those teachings will generally follow them through life. If they were not taught, they will seek that which they can believe in.
There are people who change religions because their views don't mesh with the doctrines.
There are people who refute God altogether for the same reasons.
Fact is we cannot prove or disprove the existence of God any more than we can prove or disprove which (if any) is the 'true" religion.
2007-02-07 11:30:28 · answer #2 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the I AM and God also stated in the Old Testament that I AM. The Lord is a Friend, a Father, a Teacher, a Comforter, a Master, a King, a Savior, a Healer, a Deliverer, the Word of God, etc. He is to those who believe that He Is anything that He needs to be for them.
2007-02-07 11:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends entirely on whether god created people or people created god. I think god is an actual entity created by people (check out http://noosphere.princeton.edu to wonder about this possibility).
If god created people, then probably god is fixed, but we will see it in the way we best interpret it anyway.
If people created god, then it is reasonable to assume that people re-create god too, therefore god will be (at least in part) whatever you want god to be. If this is true, then god will be even more so down to interpretation.
So either way it's still down to how you see god.
2007-02-07 11:34:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear Friend,
God is what he is. He is the creator of the Heavens and the Earth and everything in them.
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."
God created us, and therefore he is what he is.
Why not read the book of Mark, it may clarify some of your questions
God Bless
2007-02-07 11:25:55 · answer #5 · answered by ianptitchener 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course god is what you want him to be. People are the ones who made him up in the first place.
2007-02-07 11:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Derek 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romans 1:18
But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
2007-02-07 11:25:59 · answer #7 · answered by williamzo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. You have to be careful or you will be guilty of idolatry. God cannot be a worldly object. You cannot take a worldly object, whether a thing, love, sex, drugs, money, etc. and make it out to be God.
God is set apart and Holy. You must keep that in your heart and mind always. God is unimaginable to us, as humans. Trying to imagine Him as "something" creates sinful thinking and you will begin to idolize a thing instead of the true God.
2007-02-07 11:21:37 · answer #8 · answered by Christian93 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
exactly!!!!!!!, God is everywhere, and any and all times, if you just which to be like HIM(God), though there is a responsibility we will have hard to Imagine that God though of this also?, But the true is that there it seams best to think of this, like that was HIM(God), original idea, for all of us to have the chance to pursue as well his becoming, and achieve as he did, as well a better and higher status in the lather of existence, though to day a life and in a living world, we should content with the possibilities, giving by HIM, for us to begin to become aware of our senses, that HIM will direct if we fell pure in heart and in mind forward to HIM, ad forward to the future, as we will be able to experience the passing of time, forces of time that HIM(God), can easily can calm-down for us to be able to perceived more and more of hos marvelous and brilliant projects and genuine desires he has for our self to become, act and behaved just like HIM. Open your mind to HIM, HIM will guide you well. God bless you, in the name of his begotten Son, Jesus for ever and ever Amen.
2007-02-07 11:30:35 · answer #9 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. God can be the cheese sandwich in the fridge you forgot to eat. Just pray to it, ask for forgiveness, and you will see the same results as going to church.
2007-02-07 11:26:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That has been people's God through the ages.
2007-02-07 11:19:00 · answer #11 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋