so god puts all these rules and if you dont follow them you get punished. but he even takes it a bit further and makes the worst rule to break is to deny him. isnt that a little egotistical. what are your comments.
2007-09-05 08:27:46 · 8 answers · asked by Julian G 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Krishnamurti always sought to clarify what people meant when they used the word 'god'.
Typically he found (through questioning) that people had a preconceived notion of god, created through their education, upbringing and/or religious schooling.
Their opinion or acceptance defined and shaped god.
He asked a simple question: how can something self-created be real?
You see what you want to see, what you have been conditioned to see.
Krishnamurti was not denying the existence or possibility of god.
He merely questioned the convention, the image."
2007-09-05 08:35:28 · answer #1 · answered by lufiabuu 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read: Mortimer Adler's "How to Think about God." to provide some needed insight in terms of your question. Your question presumes that God has some lack in his essential nature and that we have something that God needs, which, if this premise was true, that being that you have in mind would not be God. Remember, God is that which nothing greater can be thought and is therefore infinitely beyond the finite nexus of needs and wants. Further, the "rules" that might be identified as essential to revelation, articulated for Christian theology in what is known as the Ten Commandments and the 2 Great Commandments of Christ, are not given because God gets something he needs out of them, they are given as the key elements that assure human flourishing. They are given to us to avoid the penalty that inheres in the transgression itself, not because some punishment has been imposed by the capricious will of the deity.
2007-09-05 09:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, I'd say that I'd agree.
Although, I came to this idea differenetly, Through the meaning of life. Being raised christian I was always told that the purpose of life was to follow and worship God. That was it. It seemed simple enough. But then I started thinking, "If God is all powerful, more powerful than any human could hope to be, why does he need our help? Why does he need worship when he doesn't need it? Were we created to give God an ego trip?"
just my thoughts
2007-09-05 08:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's absolute perversion. An omnipotent being with the power to create (supposedly) not only matter ITSELF, but the capability to give individual beings the identities that allot this being worship and subservience to him? How is it that "god" only touches the lives of those who wish to impose "his" rules upon man, but those who question faith and try, in vain, to find it and their own personal salvation, are often denied any reasonable conclusion? An all-powerful being seems like it would be above whining about not getting it's way, but unfortunately that idea is overlooked because fear of the unknown (often seen in children) fuels the desire to find a logical resolution to the fear-if there is not one that we can "scientifically" find, then people willingly give themselves to something they can't reason with for blind comfort.
2007-09-05 09:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you 100%. That is why I am no longer a Christian and why I have become a Pagan.
I respect everyone for their own personal religious beliefs, however, I have a problem with Christianity. It seems to me that the majority of Christians that I encounter preach one thing and practice another:
God loves everyone - oh, but are you Christian, are you a believer, are you a person of faith -- well if the answers are NO, then your sorry behind is going to burn in Hell. I find that to be both egotistical and hypocritical.
2007-09-05 08:39:38 · answer #5 · answered by Vera C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What makes you so egotistical to think you can make a better decision then God the one that created you.
2007-09-08 20:15:17 · answer #6 · answered by K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a complete misconception of the Christian idea.
God is life itself. To reject God is to elect to go over the water falls rather than be picked up by the rescue boat. The natural result is drowning.
2007-09-05 09:41:01 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well God also has people talking to the sky and God wants his followers to give money to the church. Sounds like President Bush.
2007-09-05 08:34:46 · answer #8 · answered by l'il mama 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋