god seeks only self-glorification?

someone, at an .asp site wrote:I understand why you want to worship God, but why does he want you to worship him? Why would God create billions of people, simply for the purpose of self-glorification? i’ll address my take on this. i believe god created us in his image, likeness, and/or form. i think we […]

mowing is embarrasing

i honestly have no idea how everyone is able to keep their stupid yards from having dandelions, and we’re not. our effing back yard is full of them. now, we are at the very end of a court of at least 60 homes, and the wind generally blows the same direction as the street — […]

in god’s image

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image (tseh’-lem), after our likeness (dem-ooth’). tseh’-lem from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:–image, vain shew. dem-ooth’ from ‘damah’ (1819); resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like:–fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude. i, […]

dead birds at work

so there’s this dead bird in the bathroom at work: it reminded me today of the story of the raven, which tricky once told me How Raven Helped the Ancient People Long ago, near the beginning of the world, Gray Eagle was the guardian of the sun and moon and stars, of fresh water and […]

freedom and god’s omniscience

there are those (and i’m not giving my hand away — i’m playing the advocate for which ever seems fun at the time) who hold that it does, however. let’s take and omniscient god’s point of view, from outside of time. let us suppose that a certain rubber duck with horns is born, and lives […]