Loving God??????????

Question

I have been a Christian most of my life but I am a little confused on how to "love God" to the point where he is one of the most important things in my life. I'm reading a book that says that God is romancing me as a woman, that he "loves me as a lover does," and wants me to love him in return.

But how can I love God if he is not a real person? Hopefully that doesn't sound too superficial. I mean, what is God anyway? I just feel that I cannot be satisfied if I have to love something that isn't tangible(meaning, a real human being that I can touch and kiss, talk to, etc.) How can I have this kind of relationship with God? I've read that God "romances" us by giving us beautiful skies, flowers, animals, etc. but these things are so ordinary to life that I tend to take them for granted. I mean, to some people God doesn't even exist. I do believe in God, I just don't think it will be easy for me to love him so that my heart is on fire for him, so that he is a true "lover" in my life. How can I fall in love with God? How can I have this romantic relationship with him??

Answer 1

How can a Christian believe that God is not a real person? Just what Jesus are you talking about?

Answer 2

I am sorry but this may upset you...God does not exist. Just for one minute, forget all that Christian and religious nonsense that you have been fed your whole life and approach this with an open mind. Think rationally. You were born an atheist. Just like people thousands of years ago believed in Zeus, we now believe in this so-called all knowing god. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. Read some Richard Dawkins, or just think a little bit, do some research on your religion, look at all the contradictions. You do not need religion, no one does. Wake up everyone...that is all.



Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.



Stop the bullshit

Answer 3

God's name is Jehovah. It is found 7000 times in the original Bible and has been removed from some Bibles. You can find it at Psalms 83:18. It means "He causes to become" or "I shall prove to be what I shall prove to be," in other words he can handle any situation that arises to fulfil his purposes. For you, he can be a comforter, a counselor, a protector, whatever you need. To love Jehovah, you need to have knowledge of Him and the role of his Son, Jesus. He sent his most precious Son to earth to die as a ransom for us. He hears our prayers and will help you to know more about Him as you read his Word, the Holy Bible. In fact he is so powerful he could hear the prayers of every person on the earth at the same time and answer each one individually.



Jehovah is a spirit and spirit creatures are not involved in romantic relationships. It happened once when spirits left their heavenly homes and materialized to have sexual relationships with women. They were abased and cast out of heaven. These are now called demons. The account is in Genesis 6 and Jude, verse 6. So where did you get the idea you could have a romantic relationship with God? This is a teaching of the demons and they are vicious enemies of Jehovah. They are your enemies too.



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Answer 4

Sister, these are questions you need to ask God. I have been a Christian all my life but until just recently I realized that I was never in love with Him. I came across the verse in Revelations where Jesus is addressing one of the churches and he commands them for their good works but then tells them that He is going to remove their lamp stand because they had had left their first love. I started thinking to myself how I never even had that first love. After that I started praying and asking God to give me a real love for Him; a deep love for Him. I also ask for more and more of His presence because it's hard to love God if He doesn't seem near. I pray this all the time and I imagine I will never stop until I meet Him face to face.



Some people are posting that it is not a romantic love but Oh it is. They do not understand. The whole book of the Song of Solomon was written to symbolize Christ love for us!

Answer 5

God's love is more powerful then Romance could ever be. My suggestion would be to toss the book you're reading.. and open up the Bible to hear from God & learn to love Him the way He intended... though we can never love Him more then He's loved us already.



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Answer 6

I felt this way for many years the lack of Gods love and fulfillment in my heart and life lead me to now believe this





Pascal’s Wager only works if the only possible criterion for entrance into heaven is belief in the Christian God and the only possible criterion for entrance into hell is disbelief in the Christian God.



Pascal assumes that his God is the only God, and that other religions have just been backing the wrong horse, so to speak. Perhaps, though, the wager should take into account the likelihood that God punishes skeptics and believers in other religions, or even different denominations of the same religion, even if they have lived a life of righteousness and virtue. As Homer Simpson says in an episode of “The Simpsons”: “Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.” This is sometimes referred to as the “avoiding the wrong hell” dilemma.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

- Bertrand Russell (1927)



Also, if one argues that the probability that God exists (and therefore of either receiving an infinite reward in heaven or of receiving an infinite punishment in hell) is so small that these possible outcomes of belief or disbelief can be discounted, then atheism would be the rational course of action, as it is better to gain little or nothing than it is to lose little or nothing.



Additionally, Pascal’s Wager asks us to believe on the basis of a hypothetical theory, without any proof or evidence, whereas in practice a thinking person requires evidence for the truth of a belief.



And finally, the argument requires that the god in question does not mind that someone should believe in it merely in order to gain entrance to heaven and/or to avoid punishment in hell. Since a person’s eternal fate is being decided upon merely based on their decision to make a pragmatic and selfish choice, rather than on their actions and conduct throughout their lives, this suggests a somewhat petty and unjust god, undeserving of belief and worship. Pascal’s Wager can, at best, only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God, and not in actual belief.

Answer 7

Think of it as a long distance relationship. The more you sin, the more your love goes away. Just as in a real relationship, if you started cheating, your love would start to fade. Same with God. So what you do is you determine WHAT god is by reading the bible, praying, and spiritually acknowledging his presence. Once you fully understand who he is, than the true love will come. God bless you, my prayers are with you.

Answer 8

Assuming you are Christian, how can you love an entity that will send most human beings for infinite punishment of pain and suffering, simply for thinking a certain way. I dispise the character of the Christian god.



This god deserves the love of NOBODY

Answer 9

Loving God is NOT sexual nor "romantic." God does NOT "love us as a lover does." I think the problem may be the book you're reading.



If you want to love someone "as a lover does," that's what God made us male and female for.

Answer 10

A good book on the different kinds of love would help you quite a bit.C.S.Lewis has a good one called "the four loves" or something like that.Hope this helps....God bless

Answer 11

I'm sorry, but your book is weird and unbiblical. It is not romantic love. It is agape love. It is how a parent loves a child and vice versa.



http://www.gotquestions.org/love-Lord-heart-soul-mind-strength.html

Answer 12

Just think about how much he loves all of those people that he maimed and killed in the Haitian earthquake, or those people that he so adores enough to bless with AIDS and kill their families in Africa, or those kids sold into sexual slavery in SE Asia







well... at least he loves you

Answer 13

No it's not about romance. Look at the woman with the Alabaster box. Listen to the song called Alabaster Box. Jesus said "He who is forgiven much loves much." Examine yourself for sins, then ask Jesus to forgive you with a sincere heart. Then you can experience the joy of salvation, and the love of being forgiven, and forgive others.



Luke 7:37-50 KJV And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. 40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. 41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. 48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

Answer 14

He isn't easy to love... bad breath!