Remember that your personal bond with God is ALL that matters—not promises of special blessings or earthly ministries or anything else. The whole point of your existence is to develop a close relationship with your Creator and He is a very jealous Being. He values you so much that He can’t stand the thought of you prizing anything as much as Him. It’s not good enough for God to be first in your heart when He’s followed close behind by a hundred other second priorities. He wants to be way out in front on your priority list: so supremely important that you keep forgetting there’s anything else of value in this world besides Him.
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So, Anna, da Lawd is still a psychotic, murderous asshole, but we have to love him anyway? No thanks, it's too much like being a member of the Charlie Manson gang.
"The whole point of your existence is to develop a close relationship with your Creator..."
Get help. There are safe places to go. You don't have to stay in an abusive relationship like this.
Seriously, your god sounds like he's got one hell of an ego problem. It's not enough to simply be god, but he needs people to worship him or he gets his panties in a wad? Thank you, but no. I will worship no such being, even if you can show he exists.
I've come to believe that the statement "man created God in his own image" is true on both a collective and an individual level; that is, people worship gods that are similar to themselves. Which makes sense - you wouldn't worship a god that disagrees with you on every topic under the sun like some sort of cosmic The Odd Couple scenario. Instead you have kind, loving people worshiping a kind, loving God, and we have angry, hateful people worshiping an angry, hateful God. There are probably exceptions, of course, but in general the type of god a person worships seems to be a good guideline of what they're like as a person.
So hopefully you can understand why Anna Diehl freaks me the fuck out.
@J.T.
Not entirely true. I have at least one friend from my former Bible study group who did admit at one point that he straight up didn't like a lot of the stuff in the Bible (at one point muttering "she bears" under his breath). He then noted that he would try to work to "understand" that God is perfect and knows better than he does. I suspect that many people are the way you describe, but I am confident that there are at least a few people who, whether they realize it or not, worship a God whose attributes they would never put up with in a person.
Yet God values us so much that it is willing to make some people homeless, as you've stated below, and presumably inflicts its "loved ones" with depression, anxiety disorder and other mental illnesses and it make many lives a misery. If your deity cares about us it has an odd, and abusive, way of expressing it.
@Nemo
Well, I did say there were probably exceptions. Though this is based mostly on my own experience, so perhaps I should amend my statement to "many".
Still, I can't look at someone like Anna here, reverently describing the petty, nightmarish tyrant she believes lords over reality, and come away with the feeling that she hasn't projected at least some of her own horrible attributes in her particular flavour of deity.
I especially think people who push this ideology (like Ham, Comfort, Robertson)don't really believe and are just making good coin from the con. Otherwise, give your possessions away and live as Christ said to,,,,let the rationalizing dance begin now.
Canadiest is correct. Show that gawd is your number one priority. Do what jeebus said....sell everything you have, give the money to the poor, and follow him. That would include your computer and internet service.....
Funny, I'd say that someone who didn't give a toss what I considered important, valuable or essential (unless they were him, him and him) didn't value me much at all.
Anna, I'd like to introduce you to a group of people called the Templars. You'll all REALLY get along. You can have discussions of godly order, purpose, and orderly purpose.
heck, they may even let you wield a laser shooting sword if you're a good girl.
The quote is the sort of theological verbiage documented and derided in Englefield's "Critique of Pure Verbiage". Nothing wrong with deriding such folly, of course, but regrettably some of the atheist diatribes here are no better.
He seems very insecure, that God fella...
I value my husband about as much as I value my own life, but I have no problem with him having our cats, his parents, his brother and his nephew and niece, close to his heart, too.
I'm convinced that Anna Diehl is the most elaborate Poe on the Internet. Fundies might believe some, even most, of what she says, but certainly not all.
What does God need with attention? [/James T. Kirk]
@Mikgof
That may very well turn out to be the case:
http://www.religiousresearcher.org/2014/11/12/pursuit-of-gods-anna-diehl-and-christian-post/
'It was recently brought to my attention that one of the blogs featured prominently on CP’s website exists to promote heretical teachings that are clearly at variance with CP’s avowedly evangelical doctrinal position.'
The very fact that this was pointed out to those who run Christian Post - which Annie is a part of, with her 'blog' - yet nothing has been done, makes one think that Annie is extremely clever in hiding said heresy, or those who run said site are extremely stupid.
A deep cover Poe/parodist a la those in Conservapoodia, with the ever-derping Andy Schaftafly completely oblivious to such? You decide...!
Christian fundies in a nutshell, sadly- they want you to be devoted to the point that you forget everything that makes life worth living. Loved ones? Family? Joy? Pleasure? All bullshit- only God is good enough for your attentions.
Do you know how incomprehensibly sad this kind of delusion makes me? It has torn me away from my mother and sisters, because they cannot separate their church from their viewpoint enough to let them see past my bisexuality and love me as family. It has torn them away from my father, from stalwart friends, from a literal free ride to all four years of college, all because they perceived that it would separate them from their God by some insignificant amount.
Does this all sound worth it to you, Anna? Because if it does... I'm sorry. You are truly a pitiable person.
Sorry, YHWH, I have two children with disabilities. You will never be #1.
Fortunately, I don't claim christianity, so that makes me safe from your abusive rage.
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