An atheist rant from a few months back was to the effect that "God is supposedly this egomaniacal being who constantly demands worship and praise."
Recently I was presented with a cogent answer to this charge:
God does not need our praise, He does not need to be glorified. He is complete and sufficient unto Himself. The thing is that we need to praise and glorify God for our own benefit and the benefit of others around us.
Why? Because we need to know and others need to know that God is God, and we are not; God is the means to salvation and everlasting life; God has the power to provide this for us; we must by our own free will, because we are creatures of free will, accept this great gift and the authority of He who gives it.
Merely to acknowledge and repeat these facts is to praise and glorify God in the highest possible terms.
An atheist rant from a few months back was to the effect that "God is supposedly this egomaniacal being who constantly demands worship and praise."
Recently I was presented with a cogent answer to this charge:
God does not need our praise, He does not need to be glorified. He is complete and sufficient unto Himself. The thing is that we need to praise and glorify God for our own benefit and the benefit of others around us.
Why? Because we need to know and others need to know that God is God, and we are not; God is the means to salvation and everlasting life; God has the power to provide this for us; we must by our own free will, because we are creatures of free will, accept this great gift and the authority of He who gives it.
Merely to acknowledge and repeat these facts is to praise and glorify God in the highest possible terms.
o um yes a god would be god but why do you need to bother wiht this to not die or be hurt?
and how cna some one know what you say is true jsut becase you say good things about the god you believe in?
Do you bother to proofread your stuff before hitting "Send"?
Praise and worship are an outward expression of an inward impression.
It is the joy of what God did for us that he didn't have to do.
that can worck so long as god is not all knowing or every when at once
Praise and worship are an outward expression of an inward impression.
It is the joy of what God did for us that he didn't have to do.
An atheist rant from a few months back was to the effect that "God is supposedly this egomaniacal being who constantly demands worship and praise."
Recently I was presented with a cogent answer to this charge:
God does not need our praise, He does not need to be glorified. He is complete and sufficient unto Himself. The thing is that we need to praise and glorify God for our own benefit and the benefit of others around us.
Why? Because we need to know and others need to know that God is God, and we are not; God is the means to salvation and everlasting life; God has the power to provide this for us; we must by our own free will, because we are creatures of free will, accept this great gift and the authority of He who gives it.
Merely to acknowledge and repeat these facts is to praise and glorify God in the highest possible terms.
that has no bearing on anything.
as the psalmist said.
make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
As LowDown said, "we need to know ...that God is God, and we are not."
Yep unlike some people that think they are god.
it really is interesting that some people think they are the end
all be all of everything.
that they just happen to be here by random chance.
Yep unlike some people that think they are god.
it really is interesting that some people think they are the end
all be all of everything.
that they just happen to be here by random chance.
An atheist rant from a few months back was to the effect that "God is supposedly this egomaniacal being who constantly demands worship and praise."
Recently I was presented with a cogent answer to this charge:
God does not need our praise, He does not need to be glorified. He is complete and sufficient unto Himself. The thing is that we need to praise and glorify God for our own benefit and the benefit of others around us.
Why? Because we need to know and others need to know that God is God, and we are not; God is the means to salvation and everlasting life; God has the power to provide this for us; we must by our own free will, because we are creatures of free will, accept this great gift and the authority of He who gives it.
Merely to acknowledge and repeat these facts is to praise and glorify God in the highest possible terms.
Well, god is NOT god if one guy's version of god is Zeus and another's is Mithra or if one guy believes in multiple gods and another thinks that god is just an idea. There is a monotheistic, Abrahamic arrogance in this post that I doubt you'd understand.
Praise your particular version of god if you want to but don't act like there's any objective benefit in this existence or that it guarantees anything like an afterlife. This is the sort of conversation that is mostly an autoerotic exercise among those who think that that makes them more spiritual. I hope it feels good because it looks pretty ridiculous and selfish.
o um yes a god would be god but why do you need to bother wiht this to not die or be hurt?
and how cna some one know what you say is true jsut becase you say good things about the god you believe in?
It's above my pay grade to grant anyone the gift of faith. Only God can do that.
so um are free will is not exactly absolute things can still happen to me thta i dont want and ther are things i want i cant make happen so i get that god can demand praise in exchange for survival and not hurting people but why is that a must?
well ok but in that case you dont need to praise god becase others need to know about him
No, God does not demand praise so that we won't get hurt. We should praise Him so that we and others will know to choose to accept the gift of salvation. The death of hell is something we choose for ourselves.
We still have to accept the gift. We are creatures of free will. We can choose. Good PR helps people make the right choice.
An atheist rant from a few months back was to the effect that "God is supposedly this egomaniacal being who constantly demands worship and praise."
Recently I was presented with a cogent answer to this charge:
God does not need our praise, He does not need to be glorified. He is complete and sufficient unto Himself. The thing is that we need to praise and glorify God for our own benefit and the benefit of others around us.
Why? Because we need to know and others need to know that God is God, and we are not; God is the means to salvation and everlasting life; God has the power to provide this for us; we must by our own free will, because we are creatures of free will, accept this great gift and the authority of He who gives it.
Merely to acknowledge and repeat these facts is to praise and glorify God in the highest possible terms.
We still have to accept the gift. We are creatures of free will. We can choose. Good PR helps people make the right choice.
If god wanted good PR I think it might be a good idea for him to stop it with the whole hell fire and brimstone thing.
Just be honest LD. If I were to hand a christian any number of the books from the old testament and tell them that this is a book out of the koran they would likely say/think something like "no wonder so many of them try to justify their horrific actions. This is what they believe."
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