2007-09-26 11:25:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely nothing.
2007-09-26 12:06:00 · answer #1 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning there was only God. God is infinite, by definition then, all-encompassing. God was all that existed and nothing existed that was not God.
God was fully aware of all aspects of His divinity - all-knowing. However, since All was God, God could not experience the fullness of His divinity.
Consider, that you may know yourself to be a forgiving person, but you cannot experience the act of forgiveness unless there is someone other than you who has done something to you that you can forgive.
So desiring to EXPERIENCE every aspect of His divinity, God divided into an infinite number of individual expressions, granting each the gifts of free-will and a veil of forgetting that allows these individuations of God to perceive themselves and separate. This perceived separateness and free-will combine to allow them to interact and experience all that can be experienced.
This separation however, is only an illusion. The underlying reality is that All is One, All is God.
You, and every being you will ever come in contact with, are all individual expressions of the Creator, experiencing all that you choose, until you choose to do only the will of the Creator and return to Him - offering your experiences as your gift and receiving the infinite Love of the Creator in return.
Jesus demonstrated this process in living his life only to do the will of the Father and thereby returning directly to His presence.
2007-09-26 18:47:57 · answer #2 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. An all-powerful, all-knowing God wouldn't need to create anything.
2007-09-26 18:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praise thanksgiving and acknowledgement! Nasa doesn't make the sunrise. The weatherman doesn't make it rain. Have you ever said,"I should have followed my first mind?" Who do you think is your first mind? God wants you to know that He is, was, and always will be. He wants you to know that He began the beginning, He started time, and with Him, there is no end. Acknowledgement!!!
Have you ever been to a party and made, let's say potatoe salad, and everyone was praising how delicious the potatoe salad was and wondered who made it? You wanted to jump on a table to tell everyone that I MADE IT! Can you feel me? Thats all that He wants is praise, and honor. Some people say that we weren't born with instructions, I beg to differ. The Bible is our instructional guide for living a beautiful, glorious, prosperous life. To simply answer your question, God only wants Praise, Honor, Glory, and acknowledge that HE IS!
2007-09-26 18:55:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God did not exist, lets say we are the most powerful creatures on earth as many argue. Then why do we need pets?
2007-09-26 18:32:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if God wants praise, then he has the angels praising and worshipping endlessly eternally. yes it is humans jobs to praise God as well but we have an even greater job than the angels- we are God's representatives on Earth (we are supposed to take care of the Earth and treat it and each other as respectfully and lovingly as possible) haven't been doing a great job of it for the last 100 years have we? (islam check it out!)
2007-10-02 11:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by aapprild1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Need is a human condition. You will never find God while limiting God to human concepts.
2007-09-26 18:29:52 · answer #7 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wants us to be his children. That is why we were given choice. If there was no choice, could it not be viewed we are slaves, not children. And God being all righteous would not do that. He does all things out of all righteousness.
God wants us to follow him not because we have to, but because we love him and want to follow him.
2007-09-26 18:30:02 · answer #8 · answered by heiscomingintheclouds 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dionysus: annoyingly answering a question WITH a Question--
What does a mother need from an infant?
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2007-09-26 18:34:01 · answer #9 · answered by Dionysus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? " - Micah 6:6-8 KJV.
2007-09-26 18:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋