Has God ever told you to believe in Him, to worship Him, to praise Him?

Question

God Himself?

Or is that just something you were told by a church or your parents, supplemented by an ancient book, while attributing all unknowns unto him?

So far, Becca P's answer is the most adorable...

...smart-doctor-egypt gets kudo's for being the only muslim to answer. funny that every one thought this was about xtians....

...and hats off to wefmeister for the scariest and creepiest answer. Religious fundies are so disturbing. In the words of that guy who always puts "Yikes!!" after his question: Yikes!!

Answer 1

No. God doesn't exist.

Answer 2

The only people I've ever known who claimed to have heard direct messages from god were under the influence of mind-altering substances. Both made decisions based on those messages which turned out to be quite damaging to them. I seriously doubt they were actually hearing from god.

Answer 3

God has never spoken to me personally but apparently attends a one on one retreat with Pat Robertson once a year. If you send him some cash he may put in a good word for you.

Answer 4

Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself:


Say, “He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.” (Quran, 112:1-4)



Chapter 112 of the Quran written in Arabic calligraphy.

No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.

God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.

God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.” The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers,3 there will be no helpers.” (Quran, 5:72)

God is not a trinity. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger... (Quran, 5:73-75)

Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.

The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times. In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,4 God is also referred to as Allah.

Answer 5

Obviously not, since I am an atheist. But I tell you frankly, if a god would appear in person before me, while I am awake, sane, and sober, and would tell me to believe in it, I'd be tempted to follow it. I'd have my doubts though.
But the efforts of mere humans to convert me by talking and scribbling will always be in vain.

Answer 6

No he has never told me that. Yep there are a lot of people telling me the proof is there in the bible - but every time I am drawn to some part of scripture it gives me a glaring contradiction. So how am I to take that message?

Answer 7

That's just something "they" were told.
In fact,
I bet a Christian won't answer this question truthfully. Cause they can't face the FACT that "god" "jesus" "satan" or "devil" is NOT real and that they should get over themselves and move on to the next controversial thing on their list.

Answer 8

No one has ever been told by a god to worship. Only people either listening to their imaginations or control freaks trying to manipulate other people.

Prove me wrong. With evidence, not anecdotes.

Answer 9

You'll get people here who will tell you that a god has actually told them to worship him or in some other way communicated his presence. People can convince themselves of ANYTHING. The credulousness of the human race is without limit.

Answer 10

God has never told anyone anything. That's a fact and I ask anyone to prove me wrong.

Answer 11

Yes.
He told me to believe in Him in John 14:1
He told me to worship Him in Psalm 99:5
He told me to praise Him in Psalm 146:1
He has given me His Holy Spirit, who lives in me and instructs me and leads me into all truth.
Who do you believe?
Who or what do you worship?
Who or what do you praise?