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To think that God, creator of the UNIVERSE, is concerned with testing you, loving you, judging you, watching you, helping you, punishing you, etc (with his HUMAN emotions, gender, wants, desires...).
Don't you think we're small potatoes in the scheme of things, and its human ego insiting that God is like us???
2007-04-13 14:41:30 · 19 answers · asked by DougDoug_ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Definitely.....I think spirituality is much more complicated for us to figure out. We think God would treat us like our judicial or parents would treat a child, but I think God is much more than that.....we would not be treated as a human would treat us, better yet, we'd be treated like a loving God would...which none of us can probably accurately conceive would be.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
2007-04-13 14:44:27 · answer #1 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Exactly. That's what I've been saying all along. If god is anything, let us hope he is nothing like us. Egotistical doesn't begin to cover it. One planet orbiting the habitable zone of one ordinary G2 star in an ordinary galaxy among billions of galaxy clusters . . .
In fact, anybody that claims to know the mind of the creator of 13.7 billion years of time, if any such creator there be, should be viewed with suspicion. That would include anybody claiming any knowledge of the existence of such a creator. Muslim, Christian, Hindu . . . well, at least the Hindus have some fun with it, look at Shiva and Gilgamesh . . . but yeah, we're a teensy tiny blob of cosmic spittle in a star strewn galaxy, whose neighbor galaxy, the Andromeda, puts us to shame. Twice the stars, twice the size. If it's all about us, wtf did the creator bother with the Andromeda for? Or any of the galaxies in the NGC catalog? Poor Jesus must be getting awfully tired of being crucified somewhere everywhere every second of existence so that our quaint god can provide an object lesson for his gazillion creations.
2007-04-13 21:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sure seems like that, unless you believe the words of Jesus that God so loved the world that he gave his one and only so that whoever should believe in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Were your parents concerned with testing you? loving you? judging you? watching you? helping you? punishing you? In fact that is what makes a good parent and in society we recognize the parents that do NOT do these things as bad parents.
Likewise, God is not a bad parent and he is in fact sifting humanity for his true children and the rest are going to be punished. Do you have the faith to believe Jesus' words and be one of Gods children? Or are you going to keep your distance from him and recieve the same punishment as this world? Or are you going to let your pride and ego keep you from him?
2007-04-13 22:01:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes it is. We are very small in God's universe. I liken it to getting a cut on your finger. Do you or I grieve over the death of the hundred's of cells, no. We care more about the other Billion cells that make up our bodies that didn't die.
The entity "God" is unable to feel emotions (pure energy cannot feel), and created man to learn what feelings are. God doesn't want to stop pain, or suffering, God wants to understand what they are. Much the same way man thinks...wonder if I can fly, and then experiments by creating wings.
2007-04-13 21:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mike M. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely!
God is ALSO (arguably) the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
And I didn't make that up either - part of it comes as a direct quotation from Thomas Jefferson
2007-04-13 21:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by Spikey and Scruffy's Mummy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Afraid you've got it wrong. Sorry. I won't go into the purpose of our existence with you because it would require not only more space than I care to write at this time of night, but it also requires and open and honest desire to know what is true and what is not and frankly I can't ascertain whether you qualify for that trait since I don't know you personally.But there is an eternal purpose to our lives here on this planet and you have to open your mind to it otherwise you end up writing silly questions like the one you just did.
2007-04-13 22:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by garo g 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I actually believe that a being that has always been and always will be may not be concerned with our lives in particular. If our entire existence as a planet is the blink of His eye. How can He be watching over each and every one of us at all times? it is a conundrum.
2007-04-13 21:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by damndirtyape212 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even though I believe in a higher power, I stay away from religion. Cant trust stuff written by people in a time of lesser knowledge of the world.
2007-04-13 21:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by Just some guy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, but then I gave up sky-daddies, and fairy tales in grade three.
If you haven't already, read "The God Delusion" super philosopher, tight arguments, awesome writer.
2007-04-13 21:46:15 · answer #9 · answered by April 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Preaching to the choir, my friend. A belief that man is made in god's image? That, to me, is the epitome of ego in action!
2007-04-13 21:44:26 · answer #10 · answered by Penelope Smith 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋