Who is the God that you would choose ?

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Originally Posted by Wallisdj

I'm with Dusty.

I mean, why would I have to choose a God?

We really don't choose friends. We have acquaintences. We have "friends": people we know and sometimes hang out with. If we are lucky, we have one best friend. That one person is hip-and-joint.

For me, God is hip-and-joint. IT doesn't require that I bury my head into a rug x times a day, go to church service at least once a week, fork over a certain percentage of my meager income to dubious causes, believe a certain way or else, ad nauseum.

God accepts me for who I am and what I am. IT asks only one thing of me, and I try to do my best in living up to that request: love my neighbor.

Other than that, IT looks after me and my own. And when the "end" comes, I'll leave that up to IT. I could care less. Meanwhile, as I traverse the Valley of Death, there's work to do and a whole lot more people to love.

Originally Posted by Wallisdj

For the purposes of this thread, I made "choosing" and "worship" equal in meaning.

I feel that as a species we suffer from eons of gods on high that demand our worship.

The initial replies to your op may have been made "tongue-in-cheek." But they reflect the limited view of God by humanity from the first days the Nefilim brought us forth into the world. And when we lost those controlling gods circa 1300 b.c., we have not lost the tradition of worship, which in a real sense was nothing more than slavery.

The Christ brought a partnership with God. Subseqent to his departure from the material world, we as a people have fallen back into the age-old habit of worship, slaves to an incredible number of views on what God is but summed up briefly as nothing more than the gods of Sumer, Babylonia, Greece, Egypt (with the possible exception of Amen-Ra, but then it was still worship/slavery), the pagan religions of the West, and the bizarre religions of the "New World."

So, in short, there is no God I wish to worship. Worship requires rules and laws. There are no rules or laws when it comes to dealing with the absolute God. And when the Nefilim or Anunnaki come back to reclaim this Earth as their own again, I hope to give them another taste of nuclear armageddon and chase them all the way back to where they came from.

Your posts were a pleasure to read. I was simply going to respond to the op that I don't feel God needs to be worshiped but I certainly couldn't have expressed the reasons why anywhere near as well as you did. Thanks for giving words to my half-formed thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Djuna

And a blinded mind.

I'm afraid so. I cannot take seriously the claim of someone who just happens to have 'Found' the very god everyone in that country is required to worship under pain of severe disapproval if they don't.

I can take seriously someone who without prejudices (apart from what makes sense and also appeals to them ) considered all the religions on offer and even some that weren't and found the right god or let it find them, if that term is preferred.

Anyone who just got fed their tribal god and never questioned that was the right one has lost all intellectual credibility in my book.