Do You Know God?
By shewolf52002
@shewolf52002 (1214)
United States
September 11, 2009 12:29am CST
I have been thinking about this question a lot as I have studied different passages that talk about the day of judgement when God will say to some away for I never knew you. That made me begin to question if I really knew God, or just about God. Does he know my name, where I live are we on speaking terms?
I think I am getting there as a christian and the more I try to understand and get to know God the more wonderful things I see in my life. What about you do you know him, or are you basing your opinion on what someone told you about him?
5 responses
@bird123 (10643)
• United States
12 Sep 09
Good question: Do you know God?? I believe there are very few who really do. People are so concerned with the shaping and building of their own world that few attempt or care to Understand. I can tell you this much. If you really know God, you won't need all those holy books written by man. God is so much more than you can find in any book! God's intellect is sooooooooo much more than ours. Probably why He is so easily misunderstood. We are going to have to broaden our thinking to a grand scale.
@shewolf52002 (1214)
• United States
12 Sep 09
I assume you are lumping the bible into the holy books in your statement? I only have one question if there is no single book that can tell us anything about God, his nature and such then how could you possibly ever know him? Wouldnt God then be open to each persons interpretation of him? There has to be some absolute truth about the God who created the universe and there must be a way to know about him so that we can come to know him personally. I agree that God is more than words on a page, he is the living breathing creator of everything, however if I have no concept of what he feels about things, sin, love, salvation, marriage....ect... then I could work up a fantasy about who and what he is?
@ChaoticBeauty (263)
• United States
14 Sep 09
Sorry bird...I have to disagree to the broadening of our thinking. It is obvious that God is bigger than we could ever conceive, but Jesus said the kingdom of Heaven will belong to those who have the heart of a child, who certainly does not have a broadened mind. And if you believe that very few people really do know God, please reconsider this as well. Even the demons...the most anti-God beings in the universe...know God. What human on this earth can say he or she doesn't know God? His laws are written on the innermost parts of our heart, the Bible says. Therefore, no human is with excuse when it comes to God...to deny God is to deny the beginning of wisdom...and the leap into foolishness.
Dive Deep!
@pattiurlvd (137)
• United States
12 Sep 09
Without knowing God and having Him in my life, many of the things that have happened to me in the past few years would have and could have sent me over the deep end. Without my faith and prayers to God, I don't believe I would be here today responding to this post.
Here's how I see it....
I would rather believe there is God and find out that He doesn't exist than not to believe in God and find out that He does exist!
@shewolf52002 (1214)
• United States
13 Sep 09
YOU KNOW IT! LOL. I have thought that many times as well. You know people can say what they want but I have seen to many things in my own life to doubt his existence. Thank you for your response.
@bluehibiscus (702)
• United States
12 Sep 09
In my own personal sense yes I know G-d, he is everywhere in everything. In the Christian sense, no, not even a little. My family is not Christian.
@shewolf52002 (1214)
• United States
14 Sep 09
So you believe in God but not Jesus? Would that mean then that you believe in a god, but not the God of the bible? That is very interesting.
@dhansens (5)
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11 Sep 09
I only know God in part, because of obvious limitations! But I know that God know the inss and outs about me! The passage you are referring to is really aimed at those who profess to believe in God and follow him but are actually hypocrites as were the pharisees during Jesus' time. I don't believe God has time for those people who profess to love him but in their hearts have no desire to do good.
