Does Conventional Christian “wisdom” teach that God created us because he desires our worship.?
Well, desire results from need, and need connotes lack, and lack connotes imperfection.
This is where the existence of the Christian God becomes impossible, because perfection cannot exist as long as there is need, want or desire.
A God who is perfect does nothing except exist and thus, a perfect God who creates anything is not perfect.
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Theree is no such thing as "Conventional Christian wisdom”. LOL
when you think of wisdom do you picture a Christian pastor" or perhaps the common worshiper?
No, you dont think of that, because that doesn't exist.
When I think of Wisdom I think of a Buddhist monk. You know, the people who YOU cant understand until you open your heart and mind.
Thats real wisdom. Understanding that you dont know everything, but keeping an open mind towards life.
The Christian religion is to submit to something that you cant possibly understand, and to close your eears to everything else. Well I have neews for you Christians...
Moses lived in Egypt and played a large role in influencing the Pharaoh to switch from polytheism to montheism. Egypt kept the same Gods however. Isis and Horus. You can call them Mother Isis and baby Horus. Or the Black Madonna. Or Mary and Jesus. From then, The Pursians invaded and looted Egypt. Alexander the Great invaded and looted the libraries and Mysteries (which were sacred in Egypt From there comes Greek Mythology and Modern day Christianity.
Now for you "wise Christians" (LOL) you should research what I have told you. Explore the spirit (your intuition) And wake up to why you are here on this Earth!
sorry about the rant. and oh yea... That religion is a watered down version of esoteric Christianity. Move on with your life
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God desires our hearts – hearts that are redeemed, restored, and renewed. He desires them because He created them (us) for a relationship with Him – a living God. Today we are going to talk about how to keep our hearts right where God wants them and explore the fact that God also desires our worship. And when we worship him, we keep our hearts oriented with his. Now last week, I also began by talking about communication between husbands and wives, and I’m not going to get into all of that… ;-) Let me just say that when your spouse has your heart, it will be worship that keeps those hearts locked together. You worship her and she worships you. And at this point, it would be wise of me to define worship! ;-) I might add while we are on this topic, that I had my wife down on her hands and knees this week – she was saying, “Come out from under that bed and fight like a man.”
I want to define worship, and use for more background in today’s message, a passage close to where we were last week in the book of Deuteronomy. God told Moses to tell the people His own commandments, and the very first one was, “You shall have NO other gods before me.” And chapter 6, as they were exploring these further, he said in verse 5, “Love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” And again in verse 13, “Fear the Lord your God, serve Him only…” So we find that worship is reverent love, to give allegiance, honor, and service. Those of you who are married, if you would put this into practice, you cannot help but have hearts that are oriented to each other if you would give honor, service, reverent love to your spouse. And the fact that God created us and desires a relationship with us should give us pause to think about how we really worship him.
We know that God desires our worship, then, because first of all he has commanded it. He never asks us to do something that he doesn’t care about! If it was important enough to place it as his first priority, then we need to examine it closely. King David understood this and wrote often about it in the Psalms, and in Psalms 147:10 he says that, “His delight is in those who fear Him…”
So let’s look at some reasons why God desires our worship.
First of all, God desires our worship, because when we worship him, we honor Him as the One who is Sovereign.
In his sermon to the men of Athens, Paul told them the whole story of creation in just a few sentences. And he began by declaring that this “Unknown God” was sovereign. It was He who created the whole earth and everything in it and is Lord of heaven and earth. He does not need anything, for he gave mankind life and breath and everything else! Sovereign means the Ultimate Controller. Sovereign means there is nothing or no one that is higher or has more power. He is the supreme ruler.
No. God is worthy of our worship. What God desires is a spiritual relationship with us that begins now and can last for eternity.
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No it does not.