Why do you think God wants you to be happy?

Question

I've heard people in my family and people I work with say, "God would want me to be happy". What in the history of the world has happened to lead them to this belief. Do you think God wants you to be happy? I think He just wants be to fulfill my role.

Answer 1

Hmmm.

The only way I can get a handle on the concept of "God" is an ALL encompassing mental creation - which I'm afraid means all the bad bits as well as the good bits.

So.... I wonder if God is more of an ALL-enquiring mental creation which wants to experience ALL things, good, bad, indifferent. In which case, there is perhaps no particular "want" - other than to experience everything.

I accept this is not going to be compatible with any bibles or other HUGE volumes of contradiction, written by mortals over hundreds of years with personal agendas, but it is the only compromise that makes sense to me - and also answers exactly the "why would God allow this....." type of questions.

So no, I don't personally think God minds if I am happy, sad - or explode tomorrow morning, just a little after breakfast.

Mark

Answer 2

The origin of the word happy is QUITE interesting and goes to show why religion because of it's use of human symbolism, is flawed just like human symbolism is flawed, but I digress. "Hap" is actually a term for LUCK!!!! That's right LUCK! The addition of the rest of the word "py" is just like saying lucky, its the verb of luck, only changed, ever heard of happenstance? That's right same origin...... So really happiness is actually another way (twisted over the eons) to refer to luckiness. Which anyone who follows religion, would tell you luck has nothing to do with god. So its ignorance that makes us say this but ignorance is easy to come by. Really the only thing god could give us, in death or in life, is peace, not happiness.... so your right smartie, and that's why ;-)

Answer 3

God wants me to be happy, but in His wisdom, He knows what will be the best for me and will make me happy in the long run, not just for now.

It my prayers from 10 years ago had been answered, I would be in a miseably unhappy marriage and would not have the freedom I do now. I would never have learned to love myself and to accept myself as I am.