If an all powerful Diety were revealed to you, wouldn't you be so humbled by the sheer enormity of it? You'd be speechless! Your own smallness and ignorance would become so glaringly evident. You would feel so grateful just to have found it and feel so much joy, so much overwhelming awe, that in of itself would be its own reward.
Coastal researchers and oceanographers spend a lifetime on a beach and still never fully grasp it. People who lived for generations on the calm coasts of South East Asia were surprised by a tsunami. I imagine God, is infinitely more vast, unpredictable and complex than a beach. I would think, you could spend a LIFETIME of spiritual soul searching and developing your relationship with God and still not even scratch the tip of of the iceberg. Yet some in R&S who claim to have found God speak like they already defined God entirely and can now predict God’s every mood, action and opinion about everyone and everything.
What inspires such arrogance?
2007-08-28 08:32:10 · 23 answers · asked by pixie_pagan 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Also how come some people feel as though they have a monopoly on God?
That only through their holy book, their interpretation, their exegesis, their traditions God is revealed.
Why would such a vast range of human beings, each with a completely different personality, allow us to experience different cultural, racial, geograhpical, family, human experiences exist only to be squeezed into one spiritual path?
No doubt an all poweful, complex, infinite Diety must be capable of relating to each individual on an individual basis so who does it really benefit to have us all squeeze into one religious mould?
2007-08-28 08:39:11 · update #1
Ego.
2007-08-28 08:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by huffyb 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Being human some think they can determine who and what God is. Mostly, these people are commiting idolatry, as they are creating God in their own image. Romans 1:24-27 "24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
Be Blessed
2007-08-28 15:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by williamn_53143 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A lot of people mistake living a "good" life for arrogance and others "non Christians" feel this way due to their own short comings, bad decisions and wrongness but because we are all human no one would admit it.
This is mostly directed to Goldwing.
2007-08-28 16:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by rukkus31 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What inspires such arrogance?" I would suspect the same sort of self-absorbed attitude that allows someone to call someone else arrogant.
But what some see as arrogance, others can see as ignorance.
A person can visit a museum, and see a great painting, and run out of the museum, and tell everyone what a great painting they've seen, while thinking and assuming that's all the museum is -- one painting.
Just as others find God, and determine that their exposure to God is all there is.
God is more than we can understand, so to make God understandable, we sometimes limit to what we can understand our idea of who and what God is.
Godspeed.
2007-08-28 15:43:29 · answer #4 · answered by jimmeisnerjr 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. If I did find god, I'm guessing I would be talking to many people about the experience. How could you not? I mean, that's one hellava conversation right?
And maybe he would do some kind of mind meld where you could be on the "same page" as him most of the time.
Listen, I know I'm just giving ammo to the Christians out there, but come on, let's keep it real with the hypotheticals.
2007-08-28 15:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Le BigMac 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have learned that in speaking Truth the charge of arrogance is a certainty, because one thing this world cannot stand is someone who is both (a) assured, and (b) correct. The world will accept your word if you are unsure, or if you are incorrect, or if you allow for some other solution, or if you are willing to compromise with untruth.
2007-08-28 15:39:38 · answer #6 · answered by Notfooled 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
someone who you can not stand before they find jesus will be the same after. It is a way to fit in and many if not all believers feel god because they search so hard. In the end they are they same person as before just with a new group of friends on sunday and a new reason to force there way on other people all be it on yahoo answers.
2007-08-28 15:39:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Very good point.
It is said that Moses was the most humble person that ever live. Largely because he was the closest human being to God.
Those that display such arrogance need to do some serious soul searching.
As for why they are Arrogant, I am not sure. People are often fickle and small minded creatures. The unknown scares them so they like to think they understand what they cannot possibly grasp. Please dont judge them for this, many cannot help it.
2007-08-28 15:38:36 · answer #8 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
you speak a lot of truth...there's no way for us, as humans, to be able to truly comprehend the mind of God...the 'best clues' i have used in my own search are the words of His Son...what He taught, how He lived...and people still assume they fully understand Christ-i've seen every political view attributed to Him, as if our concept of politics was His focus...the wisest thing i think i have heard concerning the nature of God is this...'His thoughts are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways'...when we try to project our own logic, experiences, prejudices, and preferences onto Him, it only diminishes our understanding-as for me, i have faith that one day i will understand Him far better than i do now...but it won't be in this lifetime
2007-08-28 15:50:55 · answer #9 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree completely. I don't believe anyone can truly find all of God - if we could, then he would be finitely understandable and so, not God, in my eyes. But I think you can understand a little bit more about God, which is what people say as finding God, and when they do they want to share it with others because it is so amazing that they want everyone to know.
2007-08-28 15:39:04 · answer #10 · answered by totally_idiotic 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's the same kind of arrogance that a 16-year-old boy has after his first sexual experience.
2007-08-28 15:52:13 · answer #11 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋