Does this also describe how you perceive your heavenly Father?
2007-05-12 04:13:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I LIKE YA MAN, YOU STIR ME AT TIMES, AND WITH SAYING THIS OR THAT. I KNOW I'LL NEVER BE CHOSEN AS BEST ANSWER, BUT I'VE GROWN TO VENT IN PEACE WITH YOU, IT HELPS ME MENTALLY GROW. FOR THAT I THANKYOU
YOUR QUESTION IS VERY VAGUE TO ME, I HAVE DECIDED IN MY LIFE THERE IS A PURPOSE, BUT NO I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE, BUDDA, SUN GODS, OR MYTHOLOGY, IT'S JUST NOT IN ME, MAYBE SOMEDAY WHO KNOWS I'M OPEN, BUT HAVEN'T FOUND THIS TO WORK IN MY LIFE, I GUESS IF YOUR STRAIGHT, MARRIED, LOVE YOUR PARENTS AND ALL, IT COULD BE FATHOMED, THAT'S JUST TOO HARD IN MY LIFE, READ MY LAST BLOG ON 360 AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING. LIFE ISN'T PERFECT FOR EVERYONE, SOMETIMES THE PERFECT LIFE DOESN'T SEEM TO EXIST TO SOME........
2007-05-12 06:41:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you have made a valid point with me. My late father was a mean-spirited sadistic militaristic Bible-thumper who never had a family life and was raised in a military academy. I was nine when I realized he truly enjoyed beating me and that he was far different than all the other kid's fathers. I've hated my father for 51 years for destroying my childhood with his ignorant religion and persistent violence. Although I'm technically a genius (IQ = 147 or 154), I am socially quite retarded, have difficulty making and keeping friends, and have great difficulty managing my emotions. I chose to never have children because I feared I would abuse them as I had been abused and also because denying my parents grandchildren was a conscious act of revenge for what they did to me. Not a day goes by when I don't recall how much I hate both my parents. (Mom was a hallucinating schizophrenic holy-rolling Pentacostal who spent her final days in a state mental hospital because she couldn't stop imagining she was having sex with Jesus Christ.)
As for God, I simply know that he's an entirely imaginary creation of our bronze age ancestors. I hate my late father, but I don't hate God simply because God is a purely cultural phenomenon and has never actually existed.
Please understand that I would never admit any of this in public, but Yahoo Answers is totally anonymous so I feel I can be frank and honest. However unlikely, a few fundamentalists might realize just how much damage ignorant faith can do !!
2007-05-12 05:22:02 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Close but distant, simple yet complicated, understanding yet critical, loving but cool(ish). All and everything ! ;-)
I don't perceive the 'One' in any sense as a 'heavenly father', but I love 'Life', and I love it's process, which is, for me, pretty much the same thing. I don't like human suffering, and will do anything to help bring that to an end, hence some reservations, although acceptance and patience are my two main 'Guiding Lights'.
2007-05-12 04:50:12 · answer #3 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they are not the same at all.
I love them both, but I can talk to my heavenly father a lot better than I can talk with my biological dad. My heavenly father understands what is on my heart.
My biological father, may have a better understanding of what is going on than other people, but humans cannot totally understand what is on a person's heart.
2007-05-12 04:19:33 · answer #4 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The relationship between us has never been good:he was a terrible man,abusive an alcoholic etc.Never heard the word "love" coming out of his mouth.
When I was 11 years old I took a vow never to be like him.
And till this day:I live by that.
Where possible:I will give my help and support.
Help those in need if possible.
It never changed my way of thinking about our heavenly father.
Mine used his free will in a bad way.
HE would not do that.ever.
Sky
2007-05-12 05:51:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no relationship with my father but I have a great relationship with my Heavenly Father. I try to do the same with my son.
2007-05-12 04:17:13 · answer #6 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There were years I didn't talk to my dad because of his drinking. His behavior drove me away. There were also years where I was separated from Our Heavenly Father, but that was my fault, not His. Thankfully things have changed and I have my dad and God now.
God Bless.
2007-05-12 04:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bad. Negative, scary, worthless, sarcastic, degrading, I rather he die so he'd be out of his misery (he's mentally ill and always threatening suicide). I haven't seen him since in about 23 years and he blames me for that even though he left.
No. I'm agnostic. I have no 'heavenly father' but I'm open to all possibilities. I don't think of it as a negative or frightening thing.
2007-05-12 04:19:06 · answer #8 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an ex-mormon, they taught me that God was always watching me, and being that God did not stop the abuse, I became an atheist, that is after a bout with wicca, yes I viewed God as I saw my Father, until I got saved, and realized that God loved me no matter what. I get along with my Father even though I confronted him and he denied everything. I still have God.
2007-05-12 10:52:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My relationship with my dad is great. He and I are very much alike and love similar activities and we do a lot together. I'm a self-admitted Daddy's girl.
I don't have a 'heavenly' father as I will not include any deity into my life until empirical proof of their existence is provided.
2007-05-12 04:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋