Dear Resident Theists

[Longhorn]

To me it seems obvious that God is the Most Praiseworthy being possible such that he lacks no praise. All praise is to Him, and he unites all possible praise of all levels and the utmost praise of himself. 

That said, we don't know the degree of praise God deserves but we can know somethings are praiseworthy of him.

One of these is that he would want to create the best possible beings, but with free-will involved, it's up to the best possible beings to be that, but with his grace he would lead them to do that as long as they are 100% submitting. 

It is by rational I concluded God being the ultimate praiseworthy being he is, would create infinite souls, and infinite universes, and out infinite souls there is bound to be perfect souls that have no fault. To have a fault, there had to be possibility of avoiding that, and so it's rationally possible for perfect souls to exist, and in fact, with God's grace and praiseworthy nature, infinite such souls. 

But he would not disregard the other exalted souls that fall below perfection and exalt them as well, and use them for his guidance as well.

And he would not disregard the non-exalted souls but wish to grace them as well. We humans have a great capacity of reaching high praiseworthy stations and it seems we are meant for something higher.

I believe God wants humanity to unite on the leadership of the best people on earth and out of his wisdom would always put an exalted chosen person on earth to be the best and to be the leader of humanity.

I believe it's rational to conclude there is on the earth truthful sincere people towards God and we ought to be with these people. But these people won't be manifested without a revelation from God to unite and work upon.

The revelations of God to be seem rational to me in that we get the admonishment of God and he manifests his beautiful names through them, and shows his explanation to the design of the world as it is and why things are the way they are.

And the journey to God being unseen, it seems to me, there would be unseen guides who guide to the journey to God, and that we need to be reminded by God about this as well as unite on who these guides are.

This again shows the need of revelation. I don't think there is anything more rewarding for a human then to be the guides of other towards God and lead them through out the stages in their spiritual journey. 

This praise of honoring both the leader and those lead by him, speaks of honorable praise that we can see when reminded of, speaks of praise worthy of the Creator.

It doesn't make sense to me that God watches on as people cling to misguided leaders that teach falsehood and doesn't appoint Guides that guide by the truth and thereby establish justice to counter act the falsehood.

It also seems to me, we lack vision of light despite the light being with us and seeing it to a degree, and the only proper way see the light is through those who are his light in utmost of the universe, while it seems evident we will follow culture and our own opinions, without such guidance.

It also seems evident to me that we need a spiritual program that is obligated by God or we will fall into total decay, at least many of us, and distance ourselves from him.

It seems that God perfecting every universe with perfect souls and raising creation and testing them through them, speaks of a praise of God that to me seems to be manifesting God.

This would be the utmost help of God in raising our rank, and the test of the world with all it's evils, will seem like a beautiful grace and all trials meant to bring about gems and pearls out of rocks.

It seems to me an admonishment from God towards his path and emphasizing on this design, is also a praise I can appreciate.

So far I don't see this wisdom and praise emphasized anywhere but in the majestic Quran, in a most implicit subtle way, that speaks to the heart.

I find it's guidance in theory to be the best possible guidance. And as such as I believe God would be behind what is in theory the best possible guidance, I believe in that guidance.

Ok...I'm not about to fall asleep anymore but it doesn't make much more sense now.

There is a whole lot of 'I believe' and 'it seems to me'. I understand, but why? What makes you think that? Why does this first cause need to have the attributes of your god?
I guess I can see where you're coming from with praiseworthy, but that's already a bit of a jump. So let me rewind a little.

I'm speaking specifically from the angle of the cosmological argument, the uncaused cause. For the purpose of this discussion, I'm ignoring the logical problems with that and I accept that the universe was created by a first cause. What I'm asking for is a step by step explanation of how to get from 'a first cause' to Allah. First, how do you figure it's conscious? Why is it impossible for the universe to be created by a first cause that was not?

This is pretty much the same thing Chad was doing-ascribing some of his god's attributes to this creator by default. I don't see why, and what is the basis of that. It doesn't follow.