Is God Altruistic? Is God Happy?

[Rogue]

You are being pedantic. 

care
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noun
noun: care

1. 1.
   the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
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To be altruistic you take care of others, not your own things. You can plainly see no gods are taking care of this planet and its inhabitants.

Are you being altruistic when you shave? Mow your lawn? Put gas in your car? Take care of  your children?

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When I have goats which I did not necessarily want but bought for my wife because she wanted to do goat dairy products, which is indeed a form of selflesness since i do have to get up at 5:30 to milk them, and maintain the milking equipment.

Putting gas in the car as apposed to what running a car out of gas and then exchanging it for one with gas i it that is on the car lot or in the show room?? then have the employees fill up my car when I make them get lunch? Yeah i think I'm being pretty nice when I do not make others do my daily chores.

My child is gone and does uncle sam's bidding as an MP in the army. anything I do for her now is indeed above and beyond.

Here's the point you are missing. it is not the action or chore that makes one altruistic, because as you can see a change in circumstance can change the meaning of an act completely. Jesus gives us an an example of the proud rich pharisee who gave the equilivent of a years wage to the church but in doing so made a big noise made everyone aware and publically and very openly donated this large sum of gold to the temple. in doing so the people praise and cheered him.rightfully so, as could you imagine someone giving 100K to any charity who sponsors the poor??? Even if the guy could give more who would ask him for more as no one else would be so generous even if they had the means.

Then shamefully this little old lady apologized for only giving 2 mites which is about 1/2 a penny in value, which was all the money she had. No fan fare no one noticed.. she just said a prayer and gave all she had.

Now which was the greater gift?

According to you and your scale of things like shaving mowing grass putting gas in the car and caring for children, you count deeds, meaning you are looking for the greater not everyday chore. you want to see the 100K guys gift as being the truest form of altruism.

The problem with that is the dude gave from his wealth meaning being rich he gave what he did not need, hard to imagine if you are not rich but to give something like 100K when you have a billion more is nothing, it means nothing it is a small gesture..

How ever when you have nothing and offer it that would be the same as the rich man offering his billion to the temple and keeping only the 100K

The lessor deed here means more because it is given as a complete expression of love.

You douche bags want your love to be bought by God meaning you want the dollar amount you are the temple and you want the 100k and not the 2 mites. here's the thing that you all miss.if you just invest that two mites not only will we have been given the wisdom and ablity to manage that 100k you will eventually be able to manage that billion.

Meaning don't judge altruism by the dollar amount or act, lest you be shallow vain despot who only seeks love through money and what you judge a great deed. when in fact the greatest deed that can be done for us are often over looked, because we expect great deeds to come prepackaged a certain way!

You missed the point all together. It is not altruistic to care for things that belong to you. God is described as the owner of all things that exist. God cannot be altruistic because it belongs to Him if He exists, if He created it all.