Does it matter to God how we worship him? Or is it an "anything goes"?

I myself said, 'How gladly would I treat you like sons … thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me. Jeremiah 3:19

I doubt that it cares, because it is immaginary
[link to godisimaginary.com]

I stopped having imaginary friends when I was a child.

Maybe it's about time you gave up your imaginary friend?



Last Edited by IntoTheLight on 03/29/2014 05:25 PM

no one can read the bible with a pure mind without hearing the voice or influence of another in the back of there mind.

be assured that the infinite creator of universes does not desire your "worship"... It desires that you come to know yourself as It... nothing more...

the utterly anthropomorphic god you seem to find in your books, is the biggest stumbling block to your spiritual advancement...

"God" is not an old man in the sky, who will reward or punish, judge and condemn... but hey, if that's where you're at, that's cool....

I wish more people would understand this.
Less time would be wasted fixing this world, because few would be using up valuable time waiting for someone or something to come out of the sky, or whatever, and fix the problems WE brought onto ourselves.

I like this answer.

Excerpted from page 47 of: CONVERSATIONS
WITH GOD
Book 1
an uncommon dialogue
NEALE DONALD WALSCH
1995
My link is dead but it is available on-line for free if you look.

"You are told that God is forgiveness, and compassion—yet if you do not ask for this
forgiveness in the “right way,” if you do not “come to God” properly, your plea will not
be heard, your cry will go unheeded. Even this would not be so bad if there were
only one proper way, but there are as many “proper ways” being taught as there are
teachers to teach them.
Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the “right” way
to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your
worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.
These behaviors are the behaviors historically demanded of their subjects by
monarchs—usually ego-maniacal, insecure, tyrannical monarchs at that. They’re not
Godly demands in any sense—and it seems remarkable that the world hasn’t by
now concluded that the demands are counterfeit, having nothing to do with the
needs or desires of Deity.
Deity has no needs. All That Is is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants, or lacks,
nothing—by definition.
If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something—and has such
hurt feelings if He doesn’t get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to
receive it—then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are
Children of a Lesser God.
No, my children, please let Me assure you again, through this writing, that I am
without needs. I require nothing.- God

Now, some people want to make an exception of their attachment to god. “If god is the god that I think he ought to be, he’s not going to like it when I give up my attachment to him!” All right, if you think that unless you get god you’re not going to be happy, then this “god” you’re thinking of has nothing to do with the real god. You’re thinking of a dream state; you’re thinking of your concept. Sometimes you have to get rid of “god” in order to find god. -Tony de Mello

(posted because it was synchronistic)

Yes I am in complete agreement with you.
Now is the time to worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

And it says "God is LOOKING for suchlike ones, showing it DOES matter how we worship him

The only way to worship God is to serve your fellow man.

God does not require worship, but would like it very much if you want to befriend and love It.

The Golden Rule is the best rule.

sorry, it's personal.

1 law, 1 lamb cover the worlds inequity

The definition of the word worship has been badly contaminated over the centuries.

Worship is the unspeakable communion and involuntary reactions a person has when the Presence overwhelms all else.

Your universe is that which you choose and it will be the reality through quantum entanglement that will be yours and yours alone. You have chosen to not have God and it is your universe so of course this is undeniable truth for you.

How can you recieve worship if there are no slaves

Until you believe Yeshua is God in the flesh you cannot please Him.

John 8:21 - 25

21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. 25Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.

For someone imaginary, he sure did an amazing job of creating the heavens and the earth

You may want to re think that:


"Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man. 30 True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”- Acts 17:29-51

I doubt some all knowing, all powerful, end all be all cosmic entity would care how the living dolls he created worshiped him.

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That's right you need to worship with spirit and truth which can only be done if we are born again. That happens when you believe that Jesus Christ died, was crucified and resurrected and you ask him to come into your life. Then you are born again in the spirit. All good things come from that free will choice we have to take if we want to be truly God's child.

Once you know God you just will desire to worship Him. It's like falling in love some of you might know what that feels like. You can't explain adequately it to someone who has never experienced it themselves.

How do you contrast the spiritual man to the physical man?

Don't tell that to Christ Jesus


"Now one of the scribes that had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them in a fine way, asked him: “Which commandment is first of all?” 29 Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, 30 and you must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.'- Mark 12:28

Not to mention the human power of imagination.
"I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made." Ps139:4

The spirit of creation doesn't need to be worship, it has no ego, it doesn't hurt to send it some love.

yes, or to treat others according to his love,
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a sounding [piece of] brass or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophesying and am acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails' 1Cor13