What God wants:

[Xanikk999]

But agnosticism means you take no stance on god except that you dont beileve or disbeileve of his existence.

So how can you start defining what he wants with that criteria?

 

[Sidhe]

But agnosticism means you take no stance on god except that you dont beileve or disbeileve of his existence.

So how can you start defining what he wants with that criteria?

Because I'm not bound by definitions, because I can say that I do not know, so I can quite easily join either side in passing. It's pretty simple and it's the basis of agnostic belief, look at Nietzsches quote, the archetypical agnostic, but evolutionary in his agnosticism.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

 

[Birdjaguar]

SMAC= Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri -- A great 90s game from the creator of Civ.

 

[Katheryn]

And I though that God wants us to do the best we can in life other than forgiveness of sin?

We can't do anything on our own, because we are fallen.

But... we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We are more than conquerors!

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

So, we don't do our best, but trust God to do His best in us. After he as done His work in us and we are ready. We have works that are preset, that we are predestined to do. Those works have already been set aside for us to do. We just have to be ready to do them... ie. ready in trust, in harmony, in faith, understanding how God works in us. Then, He will present the good works for us to do.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

9 not of works, that no one would boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

 

[Perfection]

Perf, you should always read to the end of the thread before you post.

Hmmm... "Last edited by Birdjaguar : Dec 26, 2006 at 03:12 PM. "...

 

[Katheryn]

Quote:
Matthew 7:12 "The Golden Rule"

Do for others what you would like them to do for you. This is a summary of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.

Here is one. But remember this is just a summary.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew 22:35-40

Thanks to Markus later in the thread for posting Matthew 22. Keeping to the commandments and doing to others as you wish others to do for you seems to be the jist of it in a round about extremely summed up version.


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Actually, we cannot have a set of rules to follow, it is not that easy!


What God wants:

"Without faith, it is impossible to please God."

"The just shall live by faith"

Spoiler :

Hebrews 11
By Faith

1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for.
3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

5By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

11By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he[a]considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

17By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."[c] 19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions about his bones.

23By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea[d] as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.[e]

32And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets, 33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37They were stoned[f]; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Hebrews 12

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.


Ephesians 4:

7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection ...

12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.


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There you go... a big dose of WHAT GOD WANTS.

 

[Sidhe]

SMAC= Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri -- A great 90s game from the creator of Civ.

I'm kinda embarrassed because I bought that game an actually played it to death. Thanks though

 

[Stalin5]

The probability that god exists is infinintesimal so the point is moot,god cannot want us to do anything if he doesn't exist.

 

[Underseer]

I have already told all of you what god wants. Since you haven't done it, I can only assume that you're all satan worshipers. I hope you like burning in hell, because that's what's going to happen to you when you die.

 

[nihilistic]

Take it as axiomatic that God exists (I don't want to debate about that here). What does (would) he want?

Are you also assuming that this "god" entity exists uniquely?

Considering that most of us have been raised with monotheistic traditions, I suppose so. Also, it has a better ring to it than "What the Gods want:"

Then again, if you believe in (or feel like speculating about) multiple Gods, or some other variation of deific being(s), feel free to.

Either you "consider what most of us been raised with" or do it in an "axiomatic" way. If you want the former you can say whatever the hell you want, but if you want to pose as the latter you would have to open yourself to technincal questions such as that.