(April 30, 2012 at 11:06 pm)Black Chakram Wrote:How has he earned your worship? What has he done for YOU?(April 30, 2012 at 10:56 pm)Matt231 Wrote:(April 30, 2012 at 10:47 pm)Black Chakram Wrote: Now, given that most Christians believe God is all around us, absence from Him would be pretty unpleasant.So you want to be around someone who demands constant worship and uses fear to control you?
Fear? Why would I fear someone who has my best interests at heart? And God hardly controls me. I wake up every morning and have to make a decision whether or not He's worth following. Some days I don't make that decision as fully as others.
And yes, he does demand worship, but consider this:
Christians state that the God of the Bible is 100% omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. If a being any less than that demanded my worship, I'd demand from him that he tell me why he deserves it. After all, it would just be some powerful creature, not truly a GOD. But IF God really is all those things then He's EARNED my constant worship and would truly deserve it.
Maybe Satan is 100% omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Would he also deserve your worship? Or maybe God is all those things but also evil. He has done nothing to EARN worship.