Which is real a God who conforms to what people want; or a  God who sets standards of morality.?
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I believe that no god could be true if he/she were swayed to and fro by the many winds of the doctrine of man.  The only God I'll follow is the one who is the same today, eternal past, and eternal future.  We are right to look to God for guidance in the art of morality.  As wrong as man is apt to be, God is the only one I'd consider even asking.
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god is omnicient. he needs not to change his mind
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with regard to human nature: the individual naturally wants to control his own life. They should be conservative. But religious people want you to be government conservative and Church liberal.
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God is love, pure, undefiled love.\n\nSatan is the father of lies.
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God! These are His characteristics but with Him Love is unfailing and is given to everyone. His wisdom exceeds all others and He has the ability to give it to others if he wishes. Truth, He is the only real Truth there is, He created all others
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I believe that God has given us some absolute moral laws, but that He is flexible in many areas.  We really have to study the Bible and pray over it. \n\nWe are all individuals with very unique situations going on in our lives. Yes, there are some laws that absolutely must be obeyed,\nbut other than those God deals with us as individuals and the answer to one's person's dilemna may not be the same as the answer to a person  with a similar dilemna. Deep communication with God is the key.
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I believe God wants us to know specifically who he is and how to get to him.  Therefore, he provides us Scriptures. I just can't believe we can make up a god of our own imagining and have it be the right one. Only one can be right, otherwise he would be contradicting himself.
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plato believed a nation must believe in god to be strong,a living god motivates others to control their greed or live in moderation,and the promise of spiritual immortality gives hope,and courage to face death, plato made up the myth of the metals to help maintain harmony in society because life is not fair some of us are braver or stonger or brighter than others and will attain a higher  status in life some of us have none of the above butt are born into a higher or elitee status due to parents status,to prevent rule by brute force or majority and keep power of society in the hands of the wisest or the philosopher kings in his utopia to strive for religion and faith were the only salvation so young peolpe could accept their god given stations in life instead of trying to kill the one chosen as philosopher king and taking this position away from the smarter worthy person , the politics of catholicism were derived from platos royal lies or influenced by them :the ideas of heaven hell and purgatory in their mideval form are traceable back to "the republic",the cosmology of scholasticism comes largely from "Timaeus"the doctrine of realism was an interpretation of the doctrine of ideas even the educational quadrivium (astronomy arithmetic, geometry and music)was outlined in platos works.\npeople of europe were ruled for thousands of years with this body of doctrine, this created complicitness in the masses,people readily accepted rule,contributed plentiful material or monetry support for their rulers and asked for no voice in government all merchants,soldiers,feudal cheiftains and civil powers respected the roman doctrine or religious dogma,the church became a most powerful aristocracy and organization the world has ever known\nreligion has rules that promote harmony rather than chaos in society like tou shalt not kill, some would be inclined to do so if they did not fear punishment from the law or god and burning in hell which serves a dterrent for some this control is what is was all for , the wealth and power of the church as well as its political power is evident throughout history this is why heresy is such a mortal sin it depends on blind faith, when spinoza a gret philosopher from a later era, who lived as Jesus a good christian livemeanning a nonjudgemenatal non hypocrite but a man who lived by what he believed and was a good man,when he questioned the validity of religion and suggested a more eastern idea of god meaning god is everything in everthing and not seperate from a spirit, he was excommunicated and labelled an atheist because he was dangerous to the churches power, he was encouraging young men to think for themselves and practice using critical thinking skills that is heresy and in direct conflict with the lowest most powerful form of thought that religion demands-emotive thinking better known as blind faith-power ,control,that is why it was created
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God is the concept for idealising perfect good\nEvil is the concept for idealising perfect Bad\nbut\nHuman is a reality between the two
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To know God and to be conformed to His perfect image!
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god to me is a belief , to help be on our right path, by loving him ur promosing to ur self to TRY to avoid dong sin.But no one is perfect, if god exist and he will understand it too
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That he lived...Yes\nThat he was a god...no\nThat everyone should obey his golden rule...YES
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God- all loving, but has the unfortunate characteristic of not existing.\n\nJesus- taught a lot of good things, but also taught many things which I believe were harmful\n\nThe Colonel- since i'm vegetarian, i'm not inclined to give it to him.\n\nBuddha- Buddha had a lot of wisdom, and most importantly taught good values and reasoning and disdained dogma and doctrine.  He is my choice.
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A very good question.\n\nNobody likes to think their loved ones are bad people or that their own heaven will exclude the things or people that they love. It is a no win argument, either the God/Gods will punish the wrong doers and in the process do evil to the person who did no wrong, or the God/Gods have to forgive everyone for their crime and heaven will be open for everyone even if they don't believe.\nMaybe there is a true God that does not punish and the Gods we all hear about are all just the Devil, making threats and forcing people to follow them. Even more radical would a true loving God exclude anyone? or even judge people?
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God is not man made. God is real, but man has very unpleasant opinions of God. Most people notice that God seems to be made in our image, instead of us being made in His. I hate the fact that religion has tainted the name of God so much that people are disgusted by the idea that He even exists. True love -without the abstract principle of justice involved- does not require such stringent protocol. It should not, and does not require one to act in a particular way or do a particular thing. God is absolutely powerful, no? I have heard it said that absolute power demands absolutely nothing. What would the Source of All Things demand of anyone? What would that Source do with Allegiance? What would that Source do with Worship? These are not necessary. God is real, and God is the epitome of love. Unlike man, God demands nothing, and there is no 'justice' that will stand between Him, and His children.
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God has always been more than fair if you look back through the Bible.  Even still people do evil things and can be forgiven by just simply asking.  Yes, this is how we want things in my opinion.
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IN THAT case we need to agree in as to what a god is to you. Here are the definitions of  God, and A god: \nA being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.\nThe force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being.\nA being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.\nAn image of a supernatural being; an idol.\nOne that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: Money was their god.\nA very handsome man.\nA powerful ruler or despot.\n   Notice that i said God and a god, ince you mentioned christianity, then we need to talk about God, because Christianity does not praise gods, But "God" .Pay attention to the 1st definition. That is the one that applies to Chritianity, because they praise it, But they do not praise satan. Satan is just something they dont want to deal with. A god is something you worship, it is not something you detest.