What gives you more reason to worship God?
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Re: What gives you more reason to worship God?
God as the best thing I can imagine gives me comfort and hope. Worshiping with others is a reaffirmation of that comfort and hope.
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Re: What gives you more reason to worship God?
zeezrom wrote:If you had to choose, which gives you more reason to worship God:
A. His [sic] accomplishments
B. His [sic] status of Godhood
If there were such a being, I would say, given those choices, that B is the better answer. It's all about status.
People don't bow to Queen Elizabeth because of all she's done for them. It's just because she's the queen.
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Re: What gives you more reason to worship God?
Nightlion wrote:If you baked a cake and a pie and a feted a tremendous feast and the ravenous hoards trampled in and devoured it all and trampled out without so much as a look in your direction how would you feel?
If the feast were ruined by animals, or by toddlers, getting angry or hurt would be petty and stupid.
Humans are supposedly inferior in every way to the great YHWH, like babbling babies compared to the kindest, nicest super-genius we can imagine.
Yet even I (not even close to that superior status) never got my feelings hurt when my babies didn't thank me for feeding them, or angrily blamed the puppy for chewing on something valuable I left lying around. I don't accuse the ants on my picnic food of being thoughtless jerks. They don't know any better, and are just doing what they naturally do.
"The DNA of fictional populations appears to be the most susceptible to extinction." - Simon Southerton