What Do You Want From Your Vision of God?

[Skydancing]

We all have very different perceptions of God. Some want a judgemental father figure, I want a friend of equal status to myself.

 

[Multi-Elis]

Grace. Unearned, unsought.

 

[elman]

We all have very different perceptions of God. Some want a judgemental father figure, I want a friend of equal status to myself.

I want a loving Creator, one who is better than me, certainly not my equal.

 

[liberator]

I have someone called Jesus who will sit and listen to my prayers and be beside me when I feel afraid, who will help me decided on the right directions in life and who will comfort me as I fall asleep each night. A God who will share my happiness and my failures and be my constant loving companion in this life, no matter how easy or difficult the days and no matter how many times I make mistakes. I want my God to stay near me. That's what I have, not want, in Jesus.

 

[craig_on_fire]

Maybe its just the way the sentenced is phrased.. I bear you no ill feelings... but to start by saying "I want God to be this way" sounds a bit self-centred.

Shouldn't we be asking God how he wants US to be rather than putting the demands on him?

 

[CaDan]

Ice cream. Lots and lots of ice cream.

And a PowerMac G5.

 

[Im_A]

my fiancee, wine, guiness beer, white russians (or as the "The Dude" calls it, Caucasian), euchre, metal(the music style), acoustic music.

and more importantly, than God saving my soul, that God saves the souls of humanity before He saves me.

 

[Jacob4Jesus]

You know, about two and a half years ago, I had a severe breakdown and my mind was filled with paranoid delusions that a murderer was after me and was going to chop me into bits.

I was not a Christian at the time, but I had a profoundly religious experience which led me to the belief that Jesus was there and protecting me. That's all I can ever ask of him because I can't explain how terrifying life was for me then. But he showed me he was there, and it helped me because I am alive today.

So, I already got what I wanted and needed.

 

[DailyBlessings]

Asking what we want from God is the wrong question. Our image of God and what we want from it has no bearing on God's true nature.

 

[Abiel]

What I want God to be may well be irrelevant. If God is an objective reality, then he is who he is.

 

[FLANDIDLYANDERS]

What does God want me to be like?

What I am becoming reflects who God is...

 

[BillR]

Maybe its just the way the sentenced is phrased.. I bear you no ill feelings... but to start by saying "I want God to be this way" sounds a bit self-centred.

Shouldn't we be asking God how he wants US to be rather than putting the demands on him?

Well said!!

 

[Im_A]

Maybe its just the way the sentenced is phrased.. I bear you no ill feelings... but to start by saying "I want God to be this way" sounds a bit self-centred.

Shouldn't we be asking God how he wants US to be rather than putting the demands on him?

i don't think skydancing was so much trying to be self-centered, but just trying to show a point, and ask it in a question, to know what we want from the way we view God.

now to the second part of your post, cause that stood out to me.

we know how God wants us to be. love others as we would be love, live in the Fruits of the Spirit, love as Christ loved and to care for the poor, the widows, the needy. it's the milk of the faith. working that out in practice is the meat. it's in the Bible enough that Christians should stop asking God, and just accept it, and stop expecting there to be something more grandious to a realistic Christian life.

the Christian life on earth to me?

we pick up our crosses and we do it daily, we live our lives to the best of our ability, do the best we can, enjoy life the best we can. be joyful, and happy! be mournful and sad, for there is a time for it all, and it's all beautiful cause it's part of being of being a human being! and then we die, and our body becomes fertilizer for earth.

if a Christian/non-Christian expects something more grandiose, or extragavant, they are living in a fantasy world.

 

[Casstranquility]

We all have very different perceptions of God. Some want a judgemental father figure, I want a friend of equal status to myself.

I have some of what I longed for from God-I longed for a God that I could feel close to me-now I have One. I longed for a God of pure Love, now I have One.

I still long to feel as One with God, though I know that We are already One.

 

[Wiffey]

To rephrase...what I believe about God...

God is love, mercy and forgiveness. Everlasting peace. Compassion rather than vengeance. God loves and embraces all!

 

[Multi-Elis]

if a Christian/non-Christian expects something more grandiose, or extragavant, they are living in a fantasy world.

I think there is more, and that that is the difference between a philosophy of living and a religion. "Grandiose" is perhaps not the word, because that does indeed speak of the great illusions people make. But there is a special longing for something more than what you listed, for which grandious isn't the appropriate word... I'm thinking of some of the hints sprinkled in the new testament: water that will never make you thirsty again (or perhaps that makes you more thirsty than ever?). I think it's that "sacred" "other" dimention.... where philosophy ends and religion starts, and it's not at all incompatable with what you described about the christian life on earth... It's that something special that goes hand in hand with action, that part of our unconcious brain that seems somehow connected with God and in need to reconnect in a more intimate way.. do you see what I mean?