RE: 1 Corinthians 10:31
October 28, 2013 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm by Cinjin.)
(October 28, 2013 at 4:14 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: It has to do with the relationship between the Creator and the created. God does not need us to be happy or content. But God, because of his position, knows what actions are best, and so doing actions that "please" God are actions that are best.
If you ask your child to behave in class and listen to the teacher, it makes you happy to hear that they have been doing so. But your happiness does not completely rely on your child's behavior in class. You ask your child to do this because you know it is best.
The analogy doesn't really work though. You are not asking your child to do everything in school so that the teacher will realize how amazing you as a parent truly are. Your god is. Essentially, he wants you to do everything so that other people will realize that he's so very cool. This is compounded when you realize that your god wants you to make EVERY action of your day have some kind of significance to his recognition.
It's ridiculous. The only thing that your god really teaches anyone is that he TRULY TRULY loves himself. I mean seriously, all evidence points to him being the evil vindictive queen full of vanity in a Disney movie...... <<insert billowing voice>> "THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BUT ME!! WORSHIP ME!! SERVE ME!! LOVE ME!! FEAR ME!!!!" (...or hey, don't and I'll just burn you forever)
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