What else does God do with His time?
He's created the universe and all things in it, so there isn't any new creating going on.
Answering prayers, etc can't take up much time for an omnipotent God.
And since God doesn't make personal appearances anymore, there isn't much for God to do, it seems.
Just wait for Armageddon (which He knows He will win) and then spend the rest of eternity being worshipped by a few humans.
Does anyone else think God's got the most boring job in the universe? Is this the best a God can do?
2007-05-02 12:03:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Regius: Good answer. Almost picked it. But then I realized God wouldn't waste his time constantly holding all the atoms in the universe together. He'd create a law of nature to do that for him.
Tip of the hat for an interesting concept, tho' :-)
2007-05-03 05:39:43 · update #1
No - its the best that primitive man could dream up about a non-existent God...
No need to assume God is an egomaniac - it is written in his book - "You shall worship no Gods before me, for I am a Jealous God." WTF is he jealous of? I thought he was the ONLY god. So, must be that he is jealous of PERCEIVED threats.... Dont we mock men that act this way towards their wives?? Sounds like God has a few psychological deficiencies...
2007-05-02 12:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well - one of the things he is busily engaged in is keeping the universe as you know it from falling apart.
In every atom with an atomic number greater than 1, you will find that there are positively charged protons. Basic experience with magnets will tell you that like charged particles repel, yet protons do not. In order to explain this, physicists posited the existence of something called the strong nuclear force, and if the mathematics about this is correct, it is something on the order of a million billion billion billion billion times the strength of gravity.
What does this have to do with God? The Bible indicates that God upholds all things by the Word of His power. Am I correct to equate the strong nuclear force with the power of God? I don't know, but I will say that it doesn't make sense outside of this force for the current model of the atom to work. This is why we have had to develop quantum physics.
Incidentally, you are correct about God not needing worship - it is one of the core attributes of God that He needs nothing.
Tom
2007-05-02 12:14:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference between the God that you know and the One that I know is that mine is not a static being but a dynamic becoming continuously moving to a life from early stage of innocence to the stage of a never ending cycle of creation. There is nothing boring in His creation unless you stop looking at life at a halt.
There was no computer in the time of Adam and man was given the power to continue His creations. It is no longer God Himself but man with Him who make the world revolving and evolving.
2007-05-02 12:19:13 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a god who craves worship, it's those clergymen who claim to speak on behalf of a god who crave worship and psychological control over their flocks...
2007-05-02 12:10:54 · answer #4 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, postulating a nonsensical god such as the Biblical one is the best that HUMANITY can do.
2007-05-02 12:09:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We cannot know the nature of "God"
Just concentrate on being a decent person
2007-05-02 12:06:55 · answer #6 · answered by mar m 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because God doesn't tell us very much at all about who he/she/it is, we have to guess. And we guess based on our own experience. In other words, we create God in our own image.
2007-05-02 12:07:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'll have you know that my job is extremely boring ... and I am no God
2007-05-02 12:11:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people believe it because the bible says so. at the same time, the same people will refuse to believe other things that the very same bible says.
2007-05-02 12:07:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The key word is fellowship. He desires our fellowship with him. Jesus Christ made a way for you and I to do that.
2007-05-02 12:12:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋