Why does God need your praise/belief?

Ok now this is something about religions I've never really understand, why is it whenever people go to churches, mosques whatever, they always spend about an hour saying how great god is and how hes all merciful? Why? What purpose does it serve? Even if he exists, why would he need your praise, or your belief for that matter? IS he so narcissistic that he enjoys it? Maybe, but somehow I doubt the supreme creator of the ultimate multiverse has any self esteem issues. Also, why does he not let unbelievers into heaven? Surely it can't make that much difference to him? Anyway, I'm not trying to attack, I am genuinely curious as to what the reason is.

Sacrifice of some sort? Time instead of death for sins?

But why would he need sacrifice? In fact why does he need the concept of sin at all?

I always criticise people for this
They go to mass all the time, praising God etc
Yet when it comes to helping someone else out, like a good Samaritan, they're nowhere to be seen

I'd say God would prefer us to help each other rather than 'praise' him all fucking day long

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Originally Posted by Bongoman

But why would he need sacrifice? In fact why does he need the concept of sin at all?

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cause religion values sacrafice? He saraficed himself. Its the ultimate gift back to the creator. And sin is more then doing wrong. its morals and karmas. Sin distrups the fine balance between the ying and yang.

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Originally Posted by SFGurrilla

cause religion values sacrafice? He saraficed himself. Its the ultimate gift back to the creator. And sin is more then doing wrong. its morals and karmas. Sin distrups the fine balance between the ying and yang.

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But why does it value sacrifice? Also, why did he need to sacrifice himself if hes omni-potent? Couldn't he have just said "OK, all your sins are forgiven, you can come on up now". Anyway, he/Jesus sacrificed himself to absolve original sin (the whole tree of knowledge thing), a concept that makes no sense whatsoever. Why punish us for something our supposed ancestors did thousands of years ago?

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Ok now this is something about religions I've never really understand, why is it whenever people go to churches, mosques whatever, they always spend about an hour saying how great god is and how hes all merciful? Why? What purpose does it serve? Even if he exists, why would he need your praise, or your belief for that matter? IS he so narcissistic that he enjoys it? Maybe, but somehow I doubt the supreme creator of the ultimate multiverse has any self esteem issues. Also, why does he not let unbelievers into heaven? Surely it can't make that much difference to him? Anyway, I'm not trying to attack, I am genuinely curious as to what the reason is

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hi Bongoman :)

good question. I would guess it is more for the believers edification than to stroke Gods ego or anything.

simply put god needs beleivers to exist. if no one beleives in god there can be no god. take any other religion and you will find that to the followers of that religion their god(s) is just as real to them as god is to the christians.
why do we consider the gods of the greeks, romans, egyptians, mayans, etc. etc. nothing more than myth? because they are no longer beleived in or worshipped.

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Originally Posted by SFGurrilla

cause religion values sacrafice? He saraficed himself. Its the ultimate gift back to the creator. And sin is more then doing wrong. its morals and karmas. Sin distrups the fine balance between the ying and yang.

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Originally Posted by yokinazu

simply put god needs beleivers to exist. if no one beleives in god there can be no god. take any other religion and you will find that to the followers of that religion their god(s) is just as real to them as god is to the christians.
why do we consider the gods of the greeks, romans, egyptians, mayans, etc. etc. nothing more than myth? because they are no longer beleived in or worshipped.

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That is interesting, so belief actually creates gods? Do you mean it literally creates a god, or that due to belief, God becomes "real" for the people who believe in him?

thats quite a philosophical argument. i my self beleive that until the first person belived truly in their heart that god was real he could not have existed. wouldnt god have revealed himself long before the advent of judaism instead of letting his people worship false gods condeming them to hell? i ask this also all the "ignorant" heathens in the new world that woshiped false gods who lived before the arival of the christians are they in hell? even though a man lived a good life did not kill, provided for his family, but his only "sin" would be that he had never heard the name jesus christ or god, would a loving all forgiving god condem a man for this? so there fore i say god could not have existed at all before beleif. like i said if god existed from the begining of creation then why did he take so long to reveal himself?