What if God was not  an entity that wanted ritual worship by human beings but only a source of pure power?
921946
Pure power, pure love, the truth, the essence of all there is.\n\nEndlessly allowing our religious power games and our confusions, all the different names given to him and all the rules and wars he is used as an excuse for... Knowing that however little it all has to do with him in truth, we are all in essence yearning and searching for him...\n\nMay we wake up to see him everywhere. I want to.
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Simply put, I don't think he did.  I think that man created all of the fire and brimstone, believe in me for your own good or I'll kill you stuff.  Only a complete ego centric would create us just so we can worship and glorify him.  That's not my idea of a higher power.
683536
God is spirit and don't forget he said to obey the government. People were to follow the laws-rather they liked it or not-unless it went against him. This does not fit into that category. Which I am sure you will pick  on a few scriptures and not the whole-which must harmonize.
127762
I agree with the above answer. I believe in God's sovereignty, and I see it as a very good thing. Who else better to be in charge of the world than a loving, all powerful God? If humans were in charge, we would mess things up because of our finiteness.
419234
Yes it does.  If you truely do not believe in a higher power, why would you pray?  Sounds like a sarcastic question to me.
494888
God is not physical, therefore sexless
171373
i would say we would know something we may not call it god. when i think of god i think of strength not from god but that whatever higher power is playing the cards helped me learn on my own so i can be more independant
35522
God is not christian. Man invented religion not God.
1075531
Why do you think that people have that kind of power over God?\n\nIf God loves you, do you think that you can really keep him from you, do you think that is within your power?\n\nIf God loves all people – do you really think that he will condemn them to hell just because they are Jewish?\n\nIs that the action of a loving God?\n\nDo you really think that people have so much power that they can keep God at arms length, just by having a different faith?\n\nI think God is more powerful than that.\n\nRemember, Christ died for everyone’s sins.
293777
Good point...a agree with you ... created things cant be God ...whatever they are... men or idols... there is only God which is to be worshiped...
938733
Agreed.  I don't think the biblical god is God, if there is a god.  I don't think god would be a spiteful, vengeful, mysterious god.  If there is a god (and I am open to the possibility), then it would be a nice god.
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If only. Wars used to be fought because someone didn't worship someone else's god. Then the Crusades started the trend of fighting wars because someone didn't worship God in what seemed to be to someone else the right way. Chirstians, Catholics, Muslims, these and many other religions don't worship a different God, they all worship the same God, the only difference being that they just worship God in different ways. So who's way of worshiping God is the right way to worship God? Who's to say. Each religion claims that they are right. Atheists claim that everyone is wrong. Who's to say? I personally am supposed to be a Presbiterian, but I haven't been in a church, let alone a Prebiterian one, for quite a while. I'm more spiritual than religious nowadays. I see inconsistantsees and problems with many religions, so I do what I think most people should do. I worship God not in a way told to me by man, but rather, in my own way. My God is a manifestation of my beliefs, as opposed to most people who believe, for the most part, in a God of someone else's beliefs. I too ask myself, "why can't we all have a common God?" And I am answered with, "because of our differences that, though for the better and making us all unique, is what ultimately keeps us apart." Yes, it WOULD pave the way for mankind if we all beleived in a common God, but as I stated with my very first sentence, if only. Do we need a religion for worshipping God? Some do. Most do in fact. But I don't.
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God isn't sited as being created.
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Well. I think your right. god would not do what you described.\nGod, can do many things tho'.\n\nBe sure which god, God you have these feelings from.\n\n.
403994
Exactly, ! worship the creator , not the creation.... It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child then the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since there is only one, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him, wiser than him, more eternal than him. and you cannot have one who is more eternal than ETERNAL.
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Well we can't make people worship who or what they want. If a person chooses to worship witch craft cause the people act like barney then more power to em. \nThe actions of people should not alter a persons beilefs. if it does then either the persons faith was weak or they put to much into the wordly instaed of the spiritual!\nit has been my policy that if they wanna leave they will leave. God will handle em if they fall!
955143
Nope, everything would be awesome if I was a goddess who was all powerful. There would be no death, people would just evolve into a higher lifeform, like a butterfly once they reached a state of enlightenment and chose to transform. No sickness, or cruelty would be allowed, only peaceful harmoniuos life with eachother and our animal friends, and we would be able to communicate with the animals too. I would be respected, but not feared. The weather would run on a schedule that would provide for my creation, but harm them. And when someone needed to talk to me, I would either listen to them myself, or send one of the transformed and enlightened people to them for me, if I was busy for some reason. No one would be ignored. My people would know that they are loved. I would not have to send a child of mine to die because the people broke some stupid rules and needed to be saved from my wrath. I would not be a vengeful or insecure god that insisted on being worshiped. Men and women would be treated as true equals. And people could have sex as much as they wanted to without fear of disease or unwanted pregnancy. Then if they wanted a child, they would just request one from me, and I would make them the exact child they were dreaming of, with his eyes, her hair color boy or girl, whatever they wanted. Yes, my people would be spoiled rotten by me. It should be obvious by now that this is not the first time I've thought about how things should be and would be if I was in charge, and all powerful. Yep, I've got it all figured out, except how to make it happen.LOL