Simple straight forward question. Would a loving supreme being desire that you worship and pray to him/her?

You have to stop thinking of "love" as human love.

A god's love would know each scenario and the outcomes of all possible scenarios. We are far too out of touch with reality to know all the tangents and scenarios. So the requirement of loving the god means to put the faith in the god, the being that knows the outcomes...makes sense to me. But alas I follow Asatru so I know there's a difference between man and god. ;)

I reign supreme over my kitties but they don't have to worship me for me to love them. I love them all equally, even the aloof or boring kitties. ^_^

But, the God of Christianity stills punishes the so called "sins" of man and rewards his righteousness. We refer to this technique as "carrot and stick". That is no more than the way you control an animal...

Listen very carefully, if Christians talk about their god being their "Lord and Master". For a master there must also be a slave! Haven't you ever thought of this?

That question is not an attack. I honestly can't see how an advanced deity would ask that of anyone. Worship is just another form of slavery. Can't Christians see that?

I think if you stopped and considered this question it would trouble you. That is why many never question worship.

It doesn't matter what I think. Ask yourself if the concept of worship of another is right.

You decide.

That is a great question and my answer is no. No real Creator God/dess would demand worship from its creations. That is so ego centered and childish. However, if one considers prayer not as worship but as connection to the spiritual source of life, than that makes sense to me. That's how I would view it - connection, discussion - just as I would with a parent or loved one. I don't worship them, but I try to stay at least somewhat connected.

That is a great question and my answer is no. No real Creator God/dess would demand worship from its creations. That is so ego centered and childish. However, if one considers prayer not as worship but as connection to the spiritual source of life, than that makes sense to me. That's how I would view it - connection, discussion - just as I would with a parent or loved one. I don't worship them, but I try to stay at least somewhat connected.

Not me. No more!

That is a great question and my answer is no. No real Creator God/dess would demand worship from its creations. That is so ego centered and childish. However, if one considers prayer not as worship but as connection to the spiritual source of life, than that makes sense to me. That's how I would view it - connection, discussion - just as I would with a parent or loved one. I don't worship them, but I try to stay at least somewhat connected.

I think considering worship and pray of others is what we see from and outward perceptive of others.

Some may see it and imitate it in a manner they say is following the way of prayer or worship.....even so they can join the others and be apart of it with them.

I think it is personal ways and choices and methods people decide to take part in...to fellowship together or to come together to pray to God.



I do not personally go that way but I understand why and what they are doing and what for.


I consider prayer communication......in what ever way I communicate......to pray is to speak to, request, ask, call for...

But I rarely do any except speak to and ask.....I ask because I do not know.......and I speak to because there is one listening and replying.......it is communication and two way.

I never ask not for things nor to receive things...but to understand things that I as a human can not understand nor can I seam to come to the answer of why these things are and how did they get this way and what is the main reason they are this way....the starting and the fueling or driving reason that keeps it going that way...

I only have my limited perceptive of first person out side viewing of the things and ways that move around me...or just what I see out of people or they tell me.

Yet I sometimes and a lot of times actually most all the time never go off this nor use this perception as my take of it or on it...

I ask the Lord what it is why is it I do this by telling Him what I see and what I think about it and even how I feel about it....with also telling him what i have judged in it all by my understanding.
But I communicate to him or pray as some call it so He will give me the truth of what I have picked up in my thoughts and thinking...and experiences.

I ask Him for His perspective which is asking his counsel...and for His understanding that comes form it I already know is found there so I seek Him as my guide to understanding and that is related to my walk down here and my way down here.........So I walk basically with Him not walk by my own understanding nor reasoning.

Because I have found His to be better and proven true and correct..even fixed allot of messes and entanglements and wrong impressions I had with others or with perception of things in my involvement......I rely on Him for He is reliable to me....I benefit from Him even in those things I mess up or get messed up in He can steer me out and around and past them....

When i stay close to Him in communicating and walking that way...I am not as bad of a person.

If I start moving away from Him the bad sides and worst natures in me start to grow in my way and the way I walk....which is the same as the way I am living.

I will find my own self unlikeable even to me because that myself becomes irritated easily offended easily and ready to horseplay and goof off and get obnoxious.....but truly get more stupider.......and stupider as the stupification process takes its lead I find my self stupifed when It hurt my self or miss out due to my lacking any reason or good motives or clear sound judgment of where I am and where I am going and what I am to be doing.............this way leads me then to a confused tangled up thinking that has to come to talk to God by communication through writing on paper back and forth my asking of Him and setting forth my thorn in me and what I did to push it in me....and how I have allowed my own self that is evil to fall into uncontrolled state by loosening my self control of that self..

I seek him in prayer on paper by pencil or pen...I talk He talks back I ask why and how and what is it and complain on my self and He .....states back that is this and that is that and this is the cause and that is the effect and yes you are a human and yes humans are this and that and subjected to their limitation......He clear it up and puts all in its right place my thinking that is my perception and view...basically my sight I and seeing by and mind I reason what I see or have seen..

I ask about Him things about Him...like what do you think about this...how do you feel about this...what do you want...why do you want us......why do you like us...why do you put up with that one...

I {pray} because I have someone to communicate with that I like conversing with because the conversation is fun delightful and actually rewarding to me and my life and being.....

My worship of him is nothing more than my walking with him in communication conversing to Him and rathering Him to be my answer and judge and counsel than any other..because He is actually always right and fixes things not just trows the verdict at me with out any understanding of how to fix the problem or even understand how the problem came about what actually causes it..started it.

I get excited communication with Him like I do when me and a human friend are communicating about something exciting and pleasant to think and talk of.....

I get excited and impressed with Him and "His self"...because He is cool and intriguing...He is a exquisite being to play with and spend time communicating with He sparks hope and delight and gratification and serenity He moves me inside mind and heart......He is desirous and when the desire to be with Him is and is so enjoyed I delight in that moment...I like Him I want Him I need Him I rather have Him....because He is better than any other thing or person or way He is the greatest and all is in Him I ever need to know or want to know or need to fix or need to get in me......it is there with Him found and received.............delighting in Him for what He is and who He is and what He has and does is worship I guess but I just call it fun and exciting and rewarding and fascinating....

There is the place inside us where we meet and talk it is in our minds but in this place we communicate heart to mind and as one we spend our selves to each other giving and receiving and it is what the scripture calls the secret place the inner chamber...the tent we meet in... .....it is the best of the best or any that is....

I can start by writing out what i am at ponder about ...and we begin to talk back and forth then blammo it is one I stop writing because I am now totally hyped and excited n what He has said and start giggling and loving the moment we are having and my amazement in Him I get carried away with Him .....then that puts me in a dream like state inside my my actually body and being gets lulled almost asleep...and communication is down and I will normally fall to sleep or just go off dazed like in a day dream....enjoying the effects he had on me and in me..

Why i the world would I waste my time talking to a rock that never gives me any input.....never fining anything out or there just my words bouncing off a rock..."no I want"

"I am a wanter"

I was created with the natural tendency to "want".

So it just come natural from birth on to always "want"

But that is the way He enters us and is unto us ours....by our "wantonness" ....that He draws unto Him and blammo fusion takes place and we are hooked on Him...because He is gooooooooooood.

He is the best I have ever had or can find there is no other like Him no where.......He possesses my soul and spirit my mind and heart....is obsesses with Him who is my obsession.....................and I would not have it any other way...because I like it I delighting it and get excited in it and have rewarding rewards or time spent and shared experiences with Him.

Oh yes God is a spirit but He is a wonderful good One that is not found any where but in that One.....none other will possess my mind nor my heart and take up as my souls obsession....no other spirit can hold a tail light to Him....it is a bond that just can not be broken like s spell it has you and you have it and not it will not be broken..it is a wild fire..

And I like it some may like a drug some may like a body some may like money ...some may like prestige and power....I like to feed off Him from Him I like to have Him...receive him and be with Him.

I do no need a place I do not need feed but am hungry nor warm I can be cold...it can be dark it can be light it can be sad it can be happy...I do not need anything at all to be with Him and have with Him something greater and more real and rewarding than any thing in this realm has to offer me.....So why ask for anything at all I do not need anything to make me any more the happier than what I have with Him......and I know everything will be done and is done for the betterment of all those whom He loves so why sweat it why sweat anything....just leave it to Him.

And calm your self and worried and fears in Him who leaves no doubt or what if's..He anchors your doubts and what if's in real hard unwavering ways that are His and never changes..even if we or the whole world changes He does not......so why worry for anything.....that is worship to me...it has ship in it and that means stay in the ship that has Him as an anchor and enjoy your time you are in it.

Worship and prayer are merely tools to align one's will with that of the Creator of the universe. Our lives are much happier and more productive when we obey God's will instead of blindly following our baser instincts. In order to one day come in the presence of God, we need to become less "human" and more "Godlike."

Not lower than God, but a part of God. We are all Gods in a sense.

Peace

That question is not an attack. I honestly can't see how an advanced deity would ask that of anyone. Worship is just another form of slavery. Can't Christians see that?

I think if you stopped and considered this question it would trouble you. That is why many never question worship.

It doesn't matter what I think. Ask yourself if the concept of worship of another is right.

You decide.

It would forgo the title supreme being if it required such praise. I would hope our creator has a nonexistant ego. I believe if we love and care for ourselves and others this would show our love for our source. Maybe there are entities parading as god that demand an egotistical ritual,but surely not the creator of all!

There is no "peace" for you.

The image of yours in a mirror is NEVER a part of you. The mirror will get broken with time. And the image will get distorted, shattered ...

Ha, ha. Actually I am very at peace with my understanding of my God.

That question is not an attack. I honestly can't see how an advanced deity would ask that of anyone. Worship is just another form of slavery. Can't Christians see that?

I think if you stopped and considered this question it would trouble you. That is why many never question worship.

It doesn't matter what I think. Ask yourself if the concept of worship of another is right.

You decide.

As much as Parents desire their children rely on them (praying to God)for help, guidance, support, etc for instead of others as acting parents (idols) and parents desire to function in a way their children appreciate(admiring God is praising God). Same thing as human parents (made in his image).

BTW - if you don't have a personal relationship with God and Jesus Christ......you are not living.


It takes time, turn the tube off!

That comes to the crux of my thread. In my view, God is not a parent over his human children. We are each a true and equal PART of God! All equal to God, not inferior to God. Therefore we must make our own choices in life. I know that idea is completely contrary to most people's view of God.

I haven't had or watched a TV in 5 years...

There is NO such thing as "your God". But God of you. The Source is not yours it´s you who belongs to the Source. You are showing off a big deal of egocentrism already. God is in the opposite direction.

Who is John Galt?

I hope you are happy in your delusion, that is the most important thing. :)

It would forgo the title supreme being if it required such praise. I would hope our creator has a nonexistant ego. I believe if we love and care for ourselves and others this would show our love for our source. Maybe there are entities parading as god that demand an egotistical ritual,but surely not the creator of all!

So, you are saying that we are not capable of knowing what is right for us, so God must make choices for us.

Not me. I am capable of making my own choices...

I think considering worship and pray of others is what we see from and outward perceptive of others.

Some may see it and imitate it in a manner they say is following the way of prayer or worship.....even so they can join the others and be apart of it with them.

I think it is personal ways and choices and methods people decide to take part in...to fellowship together or to come together to pray to God.



I do not personally go that way but I understand why and what they are doing and what for.


I consider prayer communication......in what ever way I communicate......to pray is to speak to, request, ask, call for...

But I rarely do any except speak to and ask.....I ask because I do not know.......and I speak to because there is one listening and replying.......it is communication and two way.

I never ask not for things nor to receive things...but to understand things that I as a human can not understand nor can I seam to come to the answer of why these things are and how did they get this way and what is the main reason they are this way....the starting and the fueling or driving reason that keeps it going that way...

I only have my limited perceptive of first person out side viewing of the things and ways that move around me...or just what I see out of people or they tell me.

Yet I sometimes and a lot of times actually most all the time never go off this nor use this perception as my take of it or on it...

I ask the Lord what it is why is it I do this by telling Him what I see and what I think about it and even how I feel about it....with also telling him what i have judged in it all by my understanding.
But I communicate to him or pray as some call it so He will give me the truth of what I have picked up in my thoughts and thinking...and experiences.

I ask Him for His perspective which is asking his counsel...and for His understanding that comes form it I already know is found there so I seek Him as my guide to understanding and that is related to my walk down here and my way down here.........So I walk basically with Him not walk by my own understanding nor reasoning.

Because I have found His to be better and proven true and correct..even fixed allot of messes and entanglements and wrong impressions I had with others or with perception of things in my involvement......I rely on Him for He is reliable to me....I benefit from Him even in those things I mess up or get messed up in He can steer me out and around and past them....

When i stay close to Him in communicating and walking that way...I am not as bad of a person.

If I start moving away from Him the bad sides and worst natures in me start to grow in my way and the way I walk....which is the same as the way I am living.

I will find my own self unlikeable even to me because that myself becomes irritated easily offended easily and ready to horseplay and goof off and get obnoxious.....but truly get more stupider.......and stupider as the stupification process takes its lead I find my self stupifed when It hurt my self or miss out due to my lacking any reason or good motives or clear sound judgment of where I am and where I am going and what I am to be doing.............this way leads me then to a confused tangled up thinking that has to come to talk to God by communication through writing on paper back and forth my asking of Him and setting forth my thorn in me and what I did to push it in me....and how I have allowed my own self that is evil to fall into uncontrolled state by loosening my self control of that self..

I seek him in prayer on paper by pencil or pen...I talk He talks back I ask why and how and what is it and complain on my self and He .....states back that is this and that is that and this is the cause and that is the effect and yes you are a human and yes humans are this and that and subjected to their limitation......He clear it up and puts all in its right place my thinking that is my perception and view...basically my sight I and seeing by and mind I reason what I see or have seen..

I ask about Him things about Him...like what do you think about this...how do you feel about this...what do you want...why do you want us......why do you like us...why do you put up with that one...

I {pray} because I have someone to communicate with that I like conversing with because the conversation is fun delightful and actually rewarding to me and my life and being.....

My worship of him is nothing more than my walking with him in communication conversing to Him and rathering Him to be my answer and judge and counsel than any other..because He is actually always right and fixes things not just trows the verdict at me with out any understanding of how to fix the problem or even understand how the problem came about what actually causes it..started it.

I get excited communication with Him like I do when me and a human friend are communicating about something exciting and pleasant to think and talk of.....

I get excited and impressed with Him and "His self"...because He is cool and intriguing...He is a exquisite being to play with and spend time communicating with He sparks hope and delight and gratification and serenity He moves me inside mind and heart......He is desirous and when the desire to be with Him is and is so enjoyed I delight in that moment...I like Him I want Him I need Him I rather have Him....because He is better than any other thing or person or way He is the greatest and all is in Him I ever need to know or want to know or need to fix or need to get in me......it is there with Him found and received.............delighting in Him for what He is and who He is and what He has and does is worship I guess but I just call it fun and exciting and rewarding and fascinating....

There is the place inside us where we meet and talk it is in our minds but in this place we communicate heart to mind and as one we spend our selves to each other giving and receiving and it is what the scripture calls the secret place the inner chamber...the tent we meet in... .....it is the best of the best or any that is....

I can start by writing out what i am at ponder about ...and we begin to talk back and forth then blammo it is one I stop writing because I am now totally hyped and excited n what He has said and start giggling and loving the moment we are having and my amazement in Him I get carried away with Him .....then that puts me in a dream like state inside my my actually body and being gets lulled almost asleep...and communication is down and I will normally fall to sleep or just go off dazed like in a day dream....enjoying the effects he had on me and in me..

Why i the world would I waste my time talking to a rock that never gives me any input.....never fining anything out or there just my words bouncing off a rock..."no I want"

"I am a wanter"

I was created with the natural tendency to "want".

So it just come natural from birth on to always "want"

But that is the way He enters us and is unto us ours....by our "wantonness" ....that He draws unto Him and blammo fusion takes place and we are hooked on Him...because He is gooooooooooood.

He is the best I have ever had or can find there is no other like Him no where.......He possesses my soul and spirit my mind and heart....is obsesses with Him who is my obsession.....................and I would not have it any other way...because I like it I delighting it and get excited in it and have rewarding rewards or time spent and shared experiences with Him.

Oh yes God is a spirit but He is a wonderful good One that is not found any where but in that One.....none other will possess my mind nor my heart and take up as my souls obsession....no other spirit can hold a tail light to Him....it is a bond that just can not be broken like s spell it has you and you have it and not it will not be broken..it is a wild fire..

And I like it some may like a drug some may like a body some may like money ...some may like prestige and power....I like to feed off Him from Him I like to have Him...receive him and be with Him.

I do no need a place I do not need feed but am hungry nor warm I can be cold...it can be dark it can be light it can be sad it can be happy...I do not need anything at all to be with Him and have with Him something greater and more real and rewarding than any thing in this realm has to offer me.....So why ask for anything at all I do not need anything to make me any more the happier than what I have with Him......and I know everything will be done and is done for the betterment of all those whom He loves so why sweat it why sweat anything....just leave it to Him.

And calm your self and worried and fears in Him who leaves no doubt or what if's..He anchors your doubts and what if's in real hard unwavering ways that are His and never changes..even if we or the whole world changes He does not......so why worry for anything.....that is worship to me...it has ship in it and that means stay in the ship that has Him as an anchor and enjoy your time you are in it.

yep and this is called a demiurge, a pretender coming into your house and saying hey i'm god your creator worship me bitches or i'm gonna be furious and destroy you all

immature, degenerate and sadistic psycho = not our creator, just look at us, we are gifted with so many stuff, a gorgeous planet to live on etc

this is so obvious seriously, the great pretender will always treat you like a slave and a piece of shit: be afraid creatures because i'm above you, follow my stupid and cruel rules or i will punish you and give me a bunch of virgins and children sacrifices because i love blood

come on the source is just totally not like this, what will be the point to create us and give us free will?

we are a dream put into reality using love and respect period.

some people are just insane enough to relate themselves to a bloody monster, this is not normal to just accept this idea...

In your post above you said "I," "MY," "ME" a total of 138 times. What does that say about what you are focused upon?