Answer:

This question has already been "answered" too many times.

As the British author and socialist George Bernard Shaw said, "There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject."

To determine God's will, one would need to identify God's characteristics and intention.

The late British geneticist and biologist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century, analyzed everything that biology revealed to him about God and concluded, "He seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles."

I'm sure we can do better than that.

Due to man's misperceptions, God has often been misdefined by man, followed by imperfect translations of all ancient religious writings. All those misperceptions, inaccurate definitions and alterations have resulted in multitudinous misunderstandings about God.

God is customarily misdefined today as "the Being perfect in wisdom, power and goodness whom people worship as creator and ruler of the universe."

Therefore, worship would seem to be what God wants, since worshipping God is what people do, per their definition. That, however, is just one example of man's numerous misunderstandings.

Perfect wisdom, power and goodness are admirable traits that induce respect and reverence; therefore, man considers them sacred. Man, however, long ago misinterpreted respect to mean worship, which no Being who is perfect in wisdom, power and goodness could ever need or, therefore, would have any reason to demand.

The more wisdom that one knows, the less respect he requires.

To require anything reflects a need, which is short of perfection, which violates man's definition of God.

Only imperfect man, in his irrational arrogance, could conceive that any entity could so urgently need respect that it would require, much less demand, worship.

Only by entirely ignoring man's own definition of the word "God" could one conclude that God's will is to be worshiped. Any house devoted to the worship of God is, by man's own definition, a house of misunderstanding of God.

Many would say that God's will includes prayer, which, along with worship, people offer God continually, but that is another example of man's various misunderstandings.

Communicating to God either aloud and verbally, or silently and telepathically, is called prayer. When God replies, it's called schizophrenia.

By definition, a supreme being who is perfect in wisdom, power, and goodness is all knowing and, therefore, knows everything that is in a person's heart, and his or her every feeling and desire, and the person's every thought, at least by the instant it is formed.

God never needs to be told; God already knows.

Consequently, modern man's belief that he needs to continually act out the appropriate steps of praying to somehow get his messages across to God again irrefutably reflects man's misunderstanding of his own definition of "God."

The call to worship and pray, however, helps funnel vast funds into the coffers of the many churches that blatantly fail to abide by their own definition of the word "God."

Religious teachers who preach with the most anger, or instill the most fear, or incite the most judgment, or vocalize the most fervently about condemnation and "hell, fire and brimstone," are the most deficient in wisdom and have the greatest misunderstanding of their own definition of "God."

The eighteenth century French writer François Voltaire noted, "If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." All our ideas of God being jealous, angry, vengeful, wrathful, and the likes, are all false attributes and human frailties assigned to God in error by man and are clearly inconsistent with perfect wisdom and goodness.

Imperfect humans may throw tantrums, but a perfectly wise, powerful and good God would have to be understanding. After all, having created the physical universe, God would have total understanding of it and everything in it.

God's primary characteristic is total understanding, of you, and everyone and everything else, and of the entire physical universe.

God's intention — and therefore will — is for each person to have total understanding of himself or herself, and of everyone and everything else, also.

Unfortunately, we have a long row to hoe, having gotten off on the wrong foot long, long ago. In the beginning was the word … and the word was misunderstood.
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Source withheld until permission granted.

JHAustin

I like that. Was this in your own words taken from another source; or the other source itself? Why you asking permission from the administration to reveal the source?

Anyway if you haven't read the Kybalion; I would suggest doing so. I'm sure you're intelligent enough to make some sense out of it. Just look for the subject called "The Kybalion" in this forum.




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[Edited on 12-6-2003 by Tamahu]

[Edited on 12-6-2003 by Tamahu]

Hello Tamahu,

Thank you for posting.

The source of these writings is from a web site that I posted here a day or two ago that was deleted because a Moderator mistook it for Spam. I am in the process of pleading my case to them but do not want to step on their toes before a decision is made. I will respect what ever they decide but will take pieces of information that relate to the topics I find interesting. I am not the Author of the writings but will add my comments when needed.

I will check out the resource you speak of, but not tonight. I have to get to bed.

Thanks again
JHAustin

I, for one, am certainly glad that Man seems to FULLY understand the characteristic's of G-d and what His intentions are.

G-d's will is not for our discernment. G-d's will for you is most certainly between Him and you or the person He is giving discernment to.

Truth beknown, we know virtually nothing of His Will, characteristic's and intention's. He is ALL and is above such insights and speculations other than what He allows to be decerned or revealed.

Hence the verbage: "I AM therfore I AM."

regards
seekerof