What is the desire or desires  that drives your religious behavior?
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For most it is actually a drive to be closer to something because the obsessed ones are always fairly clingy and lonely.\nFor others they join religions hoping to get a quick path to the answers to their questions, allowing them to evlove faster. Proof of that is in the constant praying for private desires to come.\nAnd then the last group are the ones who believe just because of tradition. (Got to believe in something, right?) that's what my friend said to me the other week on his way to church.\n\nanyway. Hope i cleared something up
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god and your church if your religious.\n\nfriends, family.
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God may want something although logically wants exist only when one is himself not able to obtain it immediately based on his existing means which of course rules out God wanting anything. The bigger question is why we assume to know what God wants and then try to force others into following that. Our behavior is based on the laws of nature like survival, compassion , cooperation (which again are need for survival) and since they help us exist we assume this is what God wants. Actually this is what we want and correctly want. Hence those who don't follow these ideals are the misfits and threat to human society like murderers, arsonists etc. So its biology , evolution and our interpretation of these. And this capability to interpret is perhaps what God wanted and he got it done (although not quite efficiently it seems from humanity's destructive tendencies).
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Religion focuses on how we live our lives in this world.  That is, it attempts to define what constitutes a "moral life", and what we must do to earn God's favor.  Religion often produces rites or rituals as a means of conducting its formulaic approach to worship.\n\nSpirituality is a focus/concern on our life outside of the physical realm.  It is a recognition of our own spirit, and a desire to connect (in some manner) with God (or other entities) that reside in a realm that exists outside of time and space. Typically, it will involve a person's own emotional experience.
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GOD and his own intentions.
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You go to church not because you have to, but because you truly love God and want to serve him. You want to "fellowship" with other people who love God. God never forces anyone, he wants real love service.
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You are absolutley right, my friend.  We do not choose how we feel or what we believe.  If love was a "choice", we would all choose to love bean sprouts and hate chocolate, but we don't control such desires.\n\nThe "outside force" is God Himself and He has revealed in the Bible how it is that He can be completely sovereign over the free actions of mankind:\n\n"for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." - Philippians 2:13\n\nGod controls both our "will" (wants/desires) and our "works" (actions).  He does this according to His good pleasure (praise Him that His pleasure is GOOD).\n\nWe don't "let" God do anything.  He is God, all by Himself, and He controls every atom in the universe.
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Religious fanaticism.
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God.\n\nGod is Love.\n\nI'm not religious but spirit real.\n\nLove is the one attribute of God that exists in all of us. It is eternal and is the one thing we all seek.\n\nLove is the "voluntary" commitment to the welfare of another, to nourish them and give them life. When you truly love someone, you "give" love. With all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your might, you "voluntarily" commit yourself to the welfare of that other person - without expecting anything in return.\n\nWhen you truly do this, you will experience "true" love.\n\nFor the only "love" that is true is the love that is given.\n\nFor God so loved the world, that He gave Himself...
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Divinity allows choice.  Human action and interpretation creates suffering.
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EDUCATION !!\nThan of course you can judge and think by yourself looking up the religious things..\n(I don't sound educated at the moment..but I'm tired !)
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u might want to get religious
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noooooo\nmy religion encourages us to do what makes us feel good\nalthough they would more so encourage ... feeling good without make up and love who we are\n\nspiritualism
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to allow the flesh to rule in our lives, giving into lust,greed, jealousy, hatred etc, we are held in bondage to sin. when we have overcome these fleshly emotions and actions, we are free, from guilt of sin, we are at peace, we can learn to love without expectations and demands.\nI hope this is what you were looking for.
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Free will. \n\nWhen anything negative happens to you.. It's a actually a way to become a better Christian, Jew or Muslim.. It should drive you closer to God.. Praying for guidance, strength and patience..
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Faith.\n\nAll you have to do is receive what is being freely given.
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You are basing your wants on human desires and not on spiritual desires. If it is just human desires that you want, joy, happiness, etc. think about the best times in your life, and multiply that hundreds and hundreds of times. The joy and love you will feel in heaven will be liken to this. Now think about the alternative...