Does God have a Big Fat Ego????

You summed it up very well in the last part. You had me worried at first, but I see what you are getting at. Some people make God to be a very nasty Being. But in fact he is far more and greater than we can ever comprehend. Yes, only He is worthy to be worshiped. Blessings

Hello bird123!!! Well not only the thing you mention, various religion have various god. And one religion don't obey the god of other religion. Then my another question is, what really the god is. Whom to believe and whom not to. Every one say that they have their own evidence. Well personally, I don't like to worship any god. And the most annoying part is that some religion worship god by sacrificing the innocent animal. Are they doing the right thing? I say it's totally the sinful thing. Also the purpose of worship seem to very much selfish in most of the case. People worship their god, saying oh God remove my frustrations away from me, do this for me, do that for me. I know nothing is going to happen with it, no miracle is going to happen. What I think is that, in most religion the concept of God is created to fear people from committing the sins. This doesn't mean that we have to pay nothing for the sins committed. I have the different view. Even sometimes, the religion is corrupted, by some people or some priest, in order to take the world to their different path. Up to worshiping the god is also very fine, I accept, and when it comes to sacrificing, I feel what the disgusting thing that is and how foolish the people are committing so senseless acts. Now with all above statements, I don't mean that we shouldn't worship good. If we really want to worship god, worship the truth. If you pray, pray for the world, not for the self. We are not really free in this world to commit the bad deeds. Bad deeds surely return to us in any form. The real god is within ourselves, we have to feel our soul hidden inside our body, creating various types of illusion us. We have to know and feel this soul, which is the truth, and the way of making the God happy, if it exists but no doubt that it makes this world happy. Well these are my feelings that come up from my heart. Happy mylotting...

If that's your opinion, I'll respect that. But just to tell my opinion: God is not that way you think He is. First and foremost, He assumed human being through God the Son Jesus Christ. Jesus assumed human form to tell others about the truth--He got along with the fishermen, the lowly, the poor, the crippled just to be like us in many ways except sin. Like us humans, Jesus also accepted baptism even though He is a God because this symbolizes His humility to fulfill His mission. He allowed Himself to be crucified so as to save us from our sin, even though He can really let Himself out of that situation because He is God. He associated himself with the lowly people rather than the kings because He is a God who doesn't want popularity or power or fame, rather, He's a kind of God that is willing to serve people. He accepted being ridiculed even though He is a God because He wants us to be aware and to know the truth. God does not demand much of us. He has given us freewill to do what we think is right. He just tells us the truth--that if we did the wrong way, we'll suffer in hell. If we did the right way, we will be with Him in heaven. There's nothing wrong in believing and trusting Him. If you did that, you have nothing to lose. If you didn't, you will almost everything. It's your choice where you wanted to be on eternity.

Hell only means grave. In other words, te wcke d people will just be killed instanty by God. There is no ego, but only kindness in this. Does a Being capable of creating the universe really want or need our worship? He may not need it, but he could want it. Does it really make sense that God wants us to fear Him? It also does not make sense that he would create anybody in the first place. Why would a sensible God create ants? If God was uncondiitonal love, there wouls not be any suffering in this world.

I would demand worship if I was God :)

God does not demand worship; He deserves worship for being who he is and for all that he's done. He does not demand love but he loves us all to a magnitude beyond our understanding and gave his son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind. And yet with a sacrife so great, so many still reject him. This beautiful earth that he created just for us, points constantly to his glorious existence and love for mankind and still he is rejected. He doesn't demand that we believe but gives us the right to choose. whether we believe in him or not, the marvelous truth is HE EXISTS.

if one reads the bible and quran, there is a demand from the god that no other god should be worshiped other than him - yehweh (bible) and allah(quran). so this demand looks more like a competition as to who is superior and who has more followers. no where do we see this god(s) teach anything worthwhile. also both gods threaten with dire consequences if people do not worship him. sometimes we see him boasting about his abilities to sky high. looks like this god(s) is/are on an ego trip.

The second one is reasonable.Unconditional,smart,allowing to learn ourselves.God cannot be threatening nor demanding.Only the parable writers depicts their ideas as ideas of gods.Real God,if exists will not worry about being worshiped or not.He will not be worried if we don't fear him.Everything told in any religion is to maintain a social life among groups,giving everybody the chance.Otherwise,survival of the fittest as in animals will happen.Even now,men try to be fittest using their brains.Everything for everybody cannot occur in reality,what all the religions are towards.

Lol! I may not a very faithful Christian but these are the things that I know. God is a mighty God who does not need our worship but he deserve it, to say the least. God is a jealous God. In other words, he doesn't want us to stray away from him. He wants to get closer to everyone as much as possible, as soon as possible. And do remember that at the beginning there was nothing except God. Try to think, if you were God all alone out there in the dark and you have nobody to talk to for more or like... millions of years, what would be your reaction? And another thing, God never said we should fear him, right? Where did you get that? People should fear God's wrath/anger not God himself. Look what he did to the world during the time of Noah. As for having to believe in God, let me tell you this... In the universe there are two things that are always at war with each other. TWO things none other as long as this. Good and Evil. To believe in God means to put all your being in God's guiding hands. Not having faith in him means you'll never listen to him and you'll go on your way dancing merely around the devil's music. It's not God who's gonna damn you to the fiery pits of hell but you, yourself. God loves all humankind from the very beginning without any conditions thus giving us these words, people most often than not confuse themselves with, as a reminder. He teaches us through experiences like how he presents himself in the Bible--the human experiences. It is hard without God. You would go crazy without God, so you should fear should God forsake you.

My problem has more to do with religion then with the Big Man Upstairs... Our impressions of God (ones that don't come from within anyway) come from man's vision of God, and as everything that has to do with man it is imperfect... There is no way for us as humans to fully understand him and I think that we aren't meant to. I think that we should trust whats in our hearts more then what a 2000 year old book put together by men with human and corrupt motivations.

I think that if He does have a ego, He deserves to have an ego. Look at the world He has created. Look at the life He has offered us if we only believe in Him. Look at what awaits us in His kingdom when he takes us home. He does not need us to worship Him, He gives us a choice to do the right thing and worship Him. I love being His ant, a being so great that he can see each and evr human being and have a list of all our names and know us all when we go home. Again he does not demand we worship, love, or believe in Him. it's all our choice to believe in Him or not. God is great and loveing and He will guide us all if we only let Him.