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Imaging praising God for eternity. That's your heaven.
You live, suffer, and die, so you can go to heaven and worship him for all the times he didn't help you, because it was his big plan.
unfortunately, this means that people have to suffer.
Actually suffering is a choice. Living involves lots of things but suffering is a choice. I choose to live and grow through JOY.
Generally people's view of how "life is" is a direct reflection of their god. My god is a god of love and joy. THe universe will give us whichever god we choose, because the universe is very accommodating. Every person has free will including choosing the god of their understanding, many people choose a stern mean demanding punishing harsh god. That has nothing to do with god, and everything to do with the person who is "constructing" the god of their understanding.
Once I got that, I shopped around and found a god that is more fun I'd rather grow through joy than suffering.
Yes, we all owe it to orselves to do some serious god shopping until we find one or more that makes us feel good inside. Just becasue we inherited a particular god from our ancestors doesn't mean that that god is the best god for us.
my intent was not to imply that we have to feel miserable throughout life, just that bad things happen to everyone. i agree wholly that it is our choice whether to learn, be positive, and move on, or to sulk and feel sorry for ourselves.
in the end, we will all see that God has helped us out thousands of times every day. whether we will accept and appreciate that is as much our decision as what we do with the bad things that happen to us.
Actually suffering is a choice. Living involves lots of things but suffering is a choice. I choose to live and grow through JOY.
Generally people's view of how "life is" is a direct reflection of their god. My god is a god of love and joy. THe universe will give us whichever god we choose, because the universe is very accommodating. Every person has free will including choosing the god of their understanding, many people choose a stern mean demanding punishing harsh god. That has nothing to do with god, and everything to do with the person who is "constructing" the god of their understanding.
Once I got that, I shopped around and found a god that is more fun I'd rather grow through joy than suffering.
Suffering is not always a choice.
I hope you don't say that to anyone dying of cancer or lost a loved one.
In answer to the OP. the god of Christianty wants us to worship them because they are quite full of themselves.
Consider the longest "book" in the bible, the Psalms. The vast majority of that book is dedicated to Yahweh tooting his own horn. 150 chapers....for verses like the ones listed below.
Yes, we all owe it to orselves to do some serious god shopping until we find one or more that makes us feel good inside. Just becasue we inherited a particular god from our ancestors doesn't mean that that god is the best god for us.
So if you make up your own god to suit your fancy, that makes him real?
my intent was not to imply that we have to feel miserable throughout life, just that bad things happen to everyone. i agree wholly that it is our choice whether to learn, be positive, and move on, or to sulk and feel sorry for ourselves.
in the end, we will all see that God has helped us out thousands of times every day. whether we will accept and appreciate that is as much our decision as what we do with the bad things that happen to us.
It sounds as if you are implying that humans are so inadequate that we can do nothing without the guidance of this god. And we are supposedly made in his image?
So if you make up your own god to suit your fancy, that makes him real?
Everyone makes up their own god! Unless we have come face to face with god, what else can we do but make up our own god? All we think we know about god comes from second hand information or something that we believe. Most of us know absolutely nothing about god, only what we've read, heard, or imagined. This being the case, why not imagine a god that you realy like, rather than a god that wants something from you and punishes you if you don't do what that god supposedly wants from you?
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I'd rather grow through joy than suffering.
