If you know god, then what?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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if you know god, you may want to know god better, or be close to god, have a relationship with god and so on? Becoming a believer is only part of deal, you can reap god‘s love and blessings to pass along to others who you care about.

As a believer what part do you play in this Holy Alliance? Some people read the Bible and attend worship services, some pray for gods will to be done while others pray for financial gain and wellbeing?

My life and the way I live is how I am with god. Traditional methods of worship do not work for me the way other people seem to derive food for the soul.

Some people love Jesus but I didn‘t get to know god that way. I turned to god when I lost everything and nothing to lose. In my darkest hour submitting my life to god was the only sensible thing to do. God taught me how to live and I became one with god. I trust god as I live moment by moment in faith that whatever happens god and I have it covered.

it wonderful living this way without a care what may happen. Faith gives me the freedom of total reliance on god.
 

I dunno. Give him a chance to talk? Sometimes we gripe and complain and beg and plead and promise then say amen and walk away. Ever ask him how he's doing? Just sayin'.
 
I do not know God. For part of my life I denied the existence of God.
Then God called me by my name and shattered my smug certainty.
I answer the call with the naivety of a child and began to learn what it means to let God be my shepherd and my guide.

In the years that followed I have found that by opening my heart to God, I have also opened it to humanity. I better understand Jesus' answer to the young man who asked him "Who is my neighbour?"

I understand the meaning of the simple child's song that we sang in Sunday School - Build on the Rock - not as a child understands, but as a grown woman who has lived to be old and is wiser for the experiences of this life.

I still do not know God, but I have felt the difference between being in harmony with the unknowable and wasting time and energy attempting to prove or deny the existence of the infinite and eternal.

As we say in my congregation at the end of every Sunday service, "We go in God, and God in us". This simple affirmation sums up my faith.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Yep. Get to know "him". I started talking verbally with God. I could have discussions with "him". It completely changed my life. I felt like I had an intimate connection with "him". When I was 20, I was in love with God. :)
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Isn't that's why God created people so that He could be loved? I think so yes. Her felt yours and you felt his. What could be better?
 
Paco Dennis said:
Talk about disenchanted? I had my first existential crisis when the tooth fairy didn't take my tooth under my pillow and leave me some money! :)
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This happened to me but daddy explained that the fairies wouldn't come unless you asked them. So we wrote a letter to the fairies, popped it into a flower, and the fairies wasted no time in coming for the tooth!
 
ElCastor said:
As an agnostic I feel safe in saying that I believe that the existence or non-existence of God has absolutely no currently universally provable basis in fact. What is true is that belief in a God has been instrumental in the evolution of humanity and our concept of morality.
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The crusades (1-9 million deaths ( a weirdly large range)) and other religious wars beg to differ. The death of tens of millions of people in the name of a god speaks volumes. Not to mention the extreme religious ones that kill in the name of a god.

I would say the belief in a god-whichever one your religion believes-causes d-evolution and destroys morals and ethics. Because somehow if I don't believe, I am wrong. Every religious person I have ever met, can not discuss religion without getting mad. That is morally wrong. You should accept my opinion as my opinion. You have your, I have mine. My queries should be a chance for discussion instead of getting angry. I accept your opinion, but I will ask questions.

Like for instance...how can you believe in a god-with no proof at all over all these centuries or millennia, but if I say we were planted here and seeded by aliens, you would make fun of me? Is not my theory identical to yours? Both are impossible to prove, yet my suggestion is wrong. (I am not saying that, just and example).

I am not sure we will ever know the true beginning of how we were created. I believe it will always be elusive.

Although the oldest writings ever found on earth is the Sumerian tablets. Which do reference the Annunaki creating humans as a slave labor force. I also find it funny that the words they use end up in the bible, Koran and other religious writings. Almost as if other religions took their creation story from the Annunaki.

Again, without absolute proof, just theories.
 
It is wrong to make a broad all inclusive statement such as "there is no god" True may believe there is no god, but that is your opinion, which does not make it true for everyone.
 
I am a true believer in God and Jesus Christ. I don’t make any attempts to convince other people to believe or not to believe. Believing in the Trinity has often got me through some tough times, both in my private life and during my military life when I never knew if I would be alive at the end of the day.

Other people are free to believe whatever they wish, just please do not try to convince me that my Father does not exist.
 
Olivia said:
What would a fake tooth fairy leave l wonder?
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A strong desire for the fairy to appear when I am sleeping, gently raise my pillow, and put about 26 cents there. Put the pillow gently back, and fly to the next kids' bed to gift him for his /her lost tooth. What a story. It totally captured my since of fantasy, and joy, plus I got something, like most of the hero's I worshipped. They promised joy, and happiness.

Being a born-again Christian lasted for about 8 years. Then my life changed so much, so fast, that it dissolved into the new person I was becoming. I began to see truth in all religions. There are many paths to heaven. (nirvana, whatever).
 
Tazx said:
The crusades (1-9 million deaths ( a weirdly large range)) and other religious wars beg to differ. The death of tens of millions of people in the name of a god speaks volumes. Not to mention the extreme religious ones that kill in the name of a god.

I would say the belief in a god-whichever one your religion believes-causes d-evolution and destroys morals and ethics. Because somehow if I don't believe, I am wrong. Every religious person I have ever met, can not discuss religion without getting mad. That is morally wrong. You should accept my opinion as my opinion. You have your, I have mine. My queries should be a chance for discussion instead of getting angry. I accept your opinion, but I will ask questions.

Like for instance...how can you believe in a god-with no proof at all over all these centuries or millennia, but if I say we were planted here and seeded by aliens, you would make fun of me? Is not my theory identical to yours? Both are impossible to prove, yet my suggestion is wrong. (I am not saying that, just and example).

I am not sure we will ever know the true beginning of how we were created. I believe it will always be elusive.

Although the oldest writings ever found on earth is the Sumerian tablets. Which do reference the Annunaki creating humans as a slave labor force. I also find it funny that the words they use end up in the bible, Koran and other religious writings. Almost as if other religions took their creation story from the Annunaki.

Again, without absolute proof, just theories.
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Thank you, Tazx.
Even so, the question is not 'How did the Annunaki come to be?' but 'How did the universe come to be?' I think it's possible someday to know the answer.
Provided we don't keep getting stupider by the day.
 
I talk to God in my prayers and talking out loud and it gives me comfort. I do have my relatives who have passed, sometimes comes into my mind with answers to some ordeal happening. My sister helps with some of my problems too as she believes in God and prayer. However, I respect those with different beliefs and theories.
 
Hi @Mr. Ed
your post here:
if you know god, you may want to know god better, or be close to god,
or be close to god, have a relationship with god and so on? Becoming a believer is only part of deal, you can reap god‘s love and blessings to pass along to others who you care about.

As a believer what part do you play in this Holy Alliance? Some people read the Bible and attend worship services, some pray for gods will to be done while others pray for financial gain and wellbeing?

My life and the way I live is how I am with god. Traditional methods of worship do not work for me the way other people seem to derive food for the soul.

Some people love Jesus but I didn‘t get to know god that way. I turned to god when I lost everything and nothing to lose. In my darkest hour submitting my life to god was the only sensible thing to do. God taught me how to live and I became one with god. I trust god as I live moment by moment in faith that whatever happens god and I have it covered.

it wonderful living this way without a care what may happen. Faith gives me the freedom of total reliance on god.
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Reminds me of the verse:
1 John 4;7 beloved let us love one another..

So I say, if you know God you must know Love, in which case we should all want to get better at loving others, too

Mark 12-30, 31 NIV Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”​


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