2007-11-09 07:16:14 · 49 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
define monster.
people who have not seen the true god will call him a monster.
as a devout pastafarian I have seen the true image of god and he is the flying spaghetti monster.
REJOICE!
RAmen!
2007-11-09 07:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, this is obviously not a real question, rather one that was posted to evoke a response and start a debate. That being said, no, God is definitely not a monster. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. A monster might kill his only son for fun, but definitely would not do it so that you and I can be saved eternally. Please grow up.
2007-11-09 07:28:30 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That pretty much sums it up. At least the one that Christianity presents to us. He creates beings that he knows in advance will fail, blames them and hates them for it, and sends them to hell to burn forever - but he loves you!!! He just adores you!!! He'll even rescue you from natural disasters like fires and hurricanes when others die. I guess that means you must be extra special to him, huh? Must be why he didn't just snuff out the disaster and save everyone from the mess that he himself created.
Okay, so I'm trying to sound like George Carlin and I'm doing a really lousy good job of it. So to answer your question, no, of course not. God, if he even exists, is not a monster, although the Christian god most definitely is the most petty, picky little selfish monster imaginable.
2007-11-09 07:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you aware that the true meaning of the word monster is 'divine being'? (German or Danish, can't remember now)Does this help answer your question? Were you really concerned with honest answers or were you just posting a baiting question to give haters an excuse to riff on God some more?
2007-11-09 07:39:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not really a name, it is a title given to the creator. The term God means.......
God (IPA: /ɡɒd/) most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe.
Christian teachings tell us that we are created in Gods image, so God could just as easily been a human from an advanced society. There is no proof to this though so we will just call him the creator. We do not know the name of the Christian God, that is why we just call him/her God, or Jehovah. It is said that once his name is learned and spoken it will signal the beginning of the apocolypse.
2007-11-09 07:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by amondriscoll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pure and simple. If you believe in the Old Testament god, he is most definitely a monster. There is no way around it. The OT gives us a god who savors the smell of burnt flesh and the taste of innocent blood.
2007-11-09 07:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No God is not a monster.
That jerk in the buy-bull is a monster though. A fictional monster.
2007-11-09 07:25:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The mystical scriptures of Hinduism can give some logical answers.
Who is God? Where is God? How can I come to know God?"
God has no names, but all names are the names of God. Whether you call Him this or that, He remains Who He is. But in our tradition we call God by the loving name Siva, which is only one of His 1,008 traditional names. Supreme God Siva is both within us and outside of us. Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death -- this is all Siva, nothing but Siva.
This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Siva did not -- not in the sense that is commonly thought. God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.
In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Siva in all things, through all things. In this striving -- as in perfecting any art or science -- regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.
Siva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality. Siva is a God of love, boundless love. He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Siva is everywhere. There is no place where Siva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too. He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe. God Siva is, and is in all things. He permeates all things. He is immanent, with a beautiful form, a human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many people in visions. He is also transcendent, beyond time, cause and space.
That is almost too much for the mind to comprehend, isn't it? Therefore, we have to meditate on these things. God Siva is so close to us. Where does He live? In the Third World. And in this form He can talk and think and love and receive our prayers and guide our karma. He commands vast numbers of devas who go forth to do His will all over the world, all over the galaxy, throughout the universe. These are matters told to us by the rishis; and we have discovered them in our own meditations. So always worship this great God. Never fear Him. He is the Self of your self. He is closer than your own breath. His nature is love, and if you worship Him with devotion you will know love and be loving toward others. Devotees of God Siva love everyone.
This is how God Siva can be seen everywhere and in everyone. He is there as the Soul of each soul. You can open your inner eye and see Him in others, see Him in the world as the world. Little by little, discipline yourself to meditate at the same time each day. Meditate, discover the silent center of yourself, then go deep within, to the core of your real Being. Slowly the purity comes. Slowly the awakening comes.
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2007-11-10 12:40:32 · answer #8 · answered by Siva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is Holy. Which means God is transcendent. And completely otherly than anything ever created. So beware Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses: Jesus (God in the flesh) is neither the half brother of Satan (Mormonism) or the angel Michael in the flesh (Jehovah Witness).
2007-11-09 07:24:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where are all the atheists now?
Why do You ask this? Define "God." Define "monster."
Do that and You will be answering Your own question.
2007-11-09 07:25:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wouldn't be much of a God.
Perhaps the image some people have of God may seem monstrous.
2007-11-09 07:22:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋