Why Does God Need So Much Praise?

[Rhondazvous]

I'm sorry. I was wrong to to be condescending and hostile. Sorry Rhonda. 

For any of the myriad examples that you can come up with where "christians" behaved badly or did bad things in the name of "christianity", you cannot then make inferences as to the nature of God or what the Bible teaches. Badly is defined as something clearly contrary to the teachings of Christ and the other NT authors.  


Whenever you use a verse to justify a conclusion. Make sure you read the surrounding paragraph and, even better, to also read a quick commentary on the verse so you get the references and the context you may miss without knowing the related passages/teachings/people/concepts. Biblehub has a bunch of them.

I understand the point you are making, Steve. Actually, you've taken the thread off on a tangent, and perhaps that is my fault for including the part about Hypatia's gruesome murder. My purpose in including the story itself was to show how fragile Christians and the bible make god's glory seem. Why do humans have to dumb down to avoid taking glory from god? Why does god require so much praise and worship?

Even when I was a Christian, I did not understand this. In my view, if I shone as bright as a million suns at mid day on the summer solstice, I could in no wise diminish the glory of the one who supposedly created the sun. I even heard one Christian speaker say that all this emphasis on god's glory is more about what's good for the Christian music industry than what god requires.