Do you ever wonder if you are worshiping the wrong God?
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Yes... I mean no....I mean, I don't know.  Questioning one's own belief system is essential to spiritual growth and evolution.  All the ones that answered "no" so quickly are the one's that, in my mind, need to get a reality check.  Don't be so sure!  Take a look around, there are more questions than answers and there are more opinions around the globe than we can count.  So, be okay to question your faith and the very existence of "god".  You may come back full circle, or you may not.  But at least you can say that you've looked outside the narrow little box that most people live in.\n\nI'm sure that if god exists and assuming that god gave you a logical mind to work with, god wouldn't mind if you questioned and explored those issues.  I haven't seen anybody struck down to a pillar of salt lately!  So free your mind, go exploring!
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I doubted mine, and I came up with my own answer. I don't get angry at anyone who disagrees with me because that is their right. \n\nWhat I never agreed with was that Deity, by whatever name, would have revealed him or herself only to a small group of people on this vast planet, damning all those who hadn't heard or accepted him or her to eternal punishment.\n\nI believe that Deity is revealed to all. I believe that there isn't one recipe to some "salvation", and that we all come around more than once. \n\nWhatever we believe, I don't think that anyone has the right to belittle others for their beliefs. Disagreement is fine; harrassing and demonizing isn't.
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I think that we all struggle in our faith one way or another. Questioning God's existence doesn't really cross most of our minds. We may question why He allows things to happen or we may even question our own Christian walk and our relationship with God. My pastors -and I've had a few in my life -haven't been perfect. In fact there was one who was my Dad's boss that treated his underlings shabbily and used the church vehicle for personal business. I think he may've even taken some of the better donations given to the church for his own. I do know that he was eventually caught by his bosses with his hand in the cookie jar and in adultery. He was speedily fired. As for weird things in a worship service? I recall visiting a Charismatic service to see what it was like. I met one of those pastors who held rather rambunctious healing services. You know the type.; they call you forward for healing even though you haven't volunteered or asked for it. He claimed -a few times- to be given a word of knowledge about some type of secret sin in some person's life. I found this made me extremely uncomfortable because I do not believe that God would humiliate an individual in this manner. Nor do I think that Jesus would compel anyone to come for healing. God is a Gentleman, and He never forces Himself on anybody. Neither should His servants
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God says He's a jealous God and I imagine He knows more about Himself than I do.\n\nConsider this: God is supreme.  He is GOD.  He wasn't invented by man, or He wouldn't be God.  He is all-knowing when we obviously aren't.  He's all-powerful when we obviously aren't.  He has always existed when we obviously were born not all that long ago.  He is holy and we definitely aren't.  He is GOD and is infinitely more awe-inspiring than we are.  Basically, He is worthy of praise.  He deserves it.  Just like kings and royalty get respect, He should get just as much and more.  He created us, we didn't make ourselves.  So imagine all that; imagine what the word "God" infers.\n\nAnd then read Exodus 20:2-5: "'Iam the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  You shall have no other gods before Me.  You shall not make for yourself a carved image...you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.  For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God...."  \n\nIf God is really God, He has some claims on us.  Because we are not God.  We are His creation.  And one of those claims He has on us is that we worship His awesomeness.  I mean, imagine your favorite singer, actor, writer, athlete, and then imagine you trying to tell the media that, no, YOU are better than this person when obviously you stink next to their talent!  That is how we act as humans most of the time.  We don't give God His due.  And He has a right to be jealous.  Don't know if that answers your question, but that kind of jealousy is righteous.  Ours is petty.
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your god you should know
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he prays to the wrong god
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Do you believe in God?
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Nope, though i guess it depends on your idea of "God" in the first place. I guess i believe in a non-interventionist god; the guy (or gal, or whatever!) is far too busy dealing with the infinite nature of the universe to be bothered with one measly town of pretty measly people/animals. One of the greatest fallacies in the human conception of god is that we are the guy's greatest priority. We're soooooo vain!!!!!!
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You see me for what i am, a less than perfict (alot less) person. God sees someone who has ben forgevin. You see me mistakes, god forgives my mistakes. So, i really dont care what you think. Its all about god.
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You are absolutely right! We need to get away from that.  We do it as a habit or what we were taught.  No one knows what God looks like so we should not worship statues or pictures that proclaim to be Him.  We should only worship him and not pics.
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... and then not give us a clear sign that "yes, god is here. Worship!"\n\nYeah, this is the same question I keep asking, and I keep getting terrible answers for it. God made us to worship him, then made the careless mistake of giving us the option to not worship him. Either god is incompetent, god is malevolent, or god is not omnipotent.
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If there is more than one god, you are at least worshipping one.  If there is no god, you are merely wasting your own time worrying about it.  If there is one god, you are arguing about a name.  God is god.  Do you think addressing God by the "wrong name" is going to get God upset?  Or using the "wrong" rituals or prayers?  That kind of god is too petty and insecure to deserve respect.  I suspect God is more interested in your actions out in the world.  Do you try to make life better for people or do you try to make people more miserable?  Sure, we may disagree on many of the details, but essentially, we all know what's right or wrong, church teaching notwithstanding.  And ignorance cannot be sin.
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its not what I think of you...its what God thinks of you. But God ofcourse, would want you to beleive in him, and at the same time, give you your own free will.
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Yes and no.\n\nIf you start, as both Christians and Muslims do (and Jews), with the belief that there is only one God, then neither can truthfully say that the other is worshipping a 'different' God, because there is only one God.\n\nHowever, they have essentially different views of who God is, and as a result, one could say that the character of the God they each worship is quite different.  \n\nThe question is, if you misunderstand God in meaningful ways, and worship Him in that imperfect way, is it still worship of God?  I believe so.  However, only the one true God is able to make that judgment.  \n\nThere is a more important issue.  Beyond worshipping God, our relationship with God is based on our understanding of Him. Key issues, such as whether Jesus is the Messiah, and the Son of God, whether God provides the Holy Spirit to guide us, and the means of reconciling with God, are critically important, and expose enormous differences among the different faith traditions.  \n\nChristians, for example, believe that Jesus was God manifested in the flesh, and provided the sacrifice that stands for all eternity, and that any (of any faith tradition) who accept His gift find forgiveness through Him.  Other faith traditions insist on some form of human works to justify themselves. Perhaps it requires a great deal of humility to accept that God doesn't need our help to achieve His way, but once we put our egos aside, we may see that God is truly in control. Only then can we begin to truly understand His will.
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I wouldn't worry about it too much.  We cab all define what god is.  Find something you like and enjoy it.
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Hell Yes!\n\nREAD:\n\nKill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God\n\n    Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods.  In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully.  If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.  Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it.  Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.  That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt.  Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction.  Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you.  He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors.  "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him."  (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)\n\n\n======================\n\n\nKill Nonbelievers\n\n    They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.  (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)\n\n\n===============================\n\n\nKill Followers of Other Religions.\n\n    1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him.  Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.  You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.  And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.  (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)\n\n \n\n    2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.  When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death.  (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
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Yes, but this is not as important as God believes in me. For I can imagine any kind of a God or none at all but as long as he thinks of me I continue to exsist. This can not be said of all people. I am an orgininal thought of God, very unique and there is none like me on the earth though there be billions with my form. He has spoken to me a few times and he is more real than I am, for I am just a thought of his