Hypothetical question pt2

[Innocent Bystander]

Ok guys, let me throw this one out for debate:

You recieve a message from God. He says "I know you believe in me, and I am flattered, but I really don't need to be worshipped. I have no desire to be glorified because I have no ego to feed. Just continue living life according to my teachings".

Do you adapt to his new wishes and stop worshipping, or disobey his new wish and carry on anyway?

 

[hunterj2k]

I would obey His wish and do my best to live according to His teachings.... mainly because, since that is what He chooses me to do, it essentially IS worshipping Him... acting in His name instead of just using His name.

 

[Hydra009]

With me, that's almost not a hypothetical.

I would conclude that there is a God, and I would now officially be a deist. I would respect God's wishes and not worship.

 

[wonderboy92577]

Hmm, I'm definitely the Anglican of the bunch. I would ask, "How do I know the message is from God? Why does this conflict with our tradition?" And lastly..."If it's not an issue core to salvation, does it really matter one way or another?"

 

[Johnnz]

God does not seek worship from people to satisfy His own needs or desires. That is a merely human experience.

His desire for people to worship Him derives from His knowledge that, as our creator, He alone is the ultimate source of all that we hope for or desire. To not relate to Him will always lead to our being shortchanged eventually. Our worship of God is in voluntary recognition of just how immense God is is every conceivable way.

John
NZ

 

[Buzz Dixon]

Emphasis mine:

Ok guys, let me throw this one out for debate:

You recieve a message from God. He says "I know you believe in me, and I am flattered, but I really don't need to be worshipped. I have no desire to be glorified because I have no ego to feed. Just continue living life according to my teachings".

Do you adapt to his new wishes and stop worshipping, or disobey his new wish and carry on anyway?

That is worship.

 

[Jedi christian]

2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
[Deut 4:2]

18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
[Revelation 22:28-29]

God even will never add to or take away from the bible. But what you said would be to take away from the bible. Obeying God's commandments would be to praise him. If God said that, he would be flip flopping. My pastor once said in a sermon: "If what you hear God tell you contradicts with the word of God [the bible], think twice about if it was God or not."

Jedi_Christian

 

[zoe_uu]

Ok guys, let me throw this one out for debate:

You recieve a message from God. He says "I know you believe in me, and I am flattered, but I really don't need to be worshipped. I have no desire to be glorified because I have no ego to feed. Just continue living life according to my teachings".

Do you adapt to his new wishes and stop worshipping, or disobey his new wish and carry on anyway?

The deist in me says, that's what "God" would say anyway, except for the teachings part. I mean, which teachings do you follow? You would think if he went thru the trouble of sending you a message, he would tell you which religion is right, or more likely that they are all right and all this fighting among religions about truth and who has it is futile.