Why wouldn't one wish to be god?

[Trichakra]

Why would one wish to be god? For Power?

 

[fhansen]

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Why would one wish to be god? For Power?

To obtain and possess the greatest good possible, which we were all made to desire and seek for. To be free to pursue whatever we perceive to be the greatest good for ourselves, without anything or anyone possibly impeding our path. It’s good to be God.

 

[PseuTonym]

One answer to the question is in Aladdin (1992):

Jafar: The universe is mine to command! To control!

Aladdin: Not so fast, Jafar! Aren’t you forgetting something?

Jafar: Huh?

Aladdin: You wanted to be a genie? You got it!

[cufflinks form on Jafar’s wrists]

Jafar: What?

Aladdin: And everything that goes with it.

[Aladdin holds up lamp, which sucks Jafar in]

Jafar: No! No!

Aladdin: Phenomenal cosmic powers … itty bitty living space.

Link:
imdb.com/title/tt0103639/quotes

 

[Ion]

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To obtain and possess the greatest good possible, which we were all made to desire and seek for. To be free to pursue whatever we perceive to be the greatest good for ourselves, without anything or anyone possibly impeding our path. It’s good to be God.

The greatest good possible is God himself.

 

[fhansen]

The greatest good possible is God himself.

Yes??? And? That’s exactly what Adam failed to recognize-and what we’re all here called to come to learn for ourselves. And this recognition isn’t even fully realized until we actually love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength.

 

[Ion]

Yes??? And? That’s exactly what Adam failed to recognize-and what we’re all here called to come to learn for ourselves. And this recognition isn’t even fully realized until we actually love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Did Adam and Eve desire godhood? I dont think they left their thoughts that far.
My opinion is that when Eve said “not even touch it”(the fruit) she actually repeated something Adam told her.
If Adam was commited to “evolve” why didnt he first ate the fruit of life, to counter the death, just in case so to speak?
We do not have their view of the world as it was at the time.
The story in Genesis as we see it now has “lose ends” so to speak and this indicate that is not only a symbolic story, in my opinion.
Their act is the primordial sin of humanity. I think God would have done something if they would have really desire godhood.

 

[fhansen]

Did Adam and Eve desire godhood? I dont think they left their thoughts that far.
My opinion is that when Eve said “not even touch it”(the fruit) she actually repeated something Adam told her.
If Adam was commited to “evolve” why didnt he first ate the fruit of life, to counter the death, just in case so to speak?
We do not have their view of the world as it was at the time.
The story in Genesis as we see it now has “lose ends” so to speak and this indicate that is not only a symbolic story, in my opinion.
Their act is the primordial sin of humanity. I think God would have done something if they would have really desire godhood.

To disobey God is to assert ones own authority over His. Its to fail to recognize Who he is, and place yourself in His position, becoming the determiner of morality for yourself. It’s to say that there is no God, nothing higher than myself. In any case, the catechism teaches that, by his act, Adam *preferred *himself to God, wanting to be like Him while apart from Him. Jesus tells us otherwise, that apart from Him we can do nothing. This is the basis of the New Covenant. This is the very relationship that man scorned at the fall according to church teachings and that man requires in order to exist in a state of justice, order, harmony, peace, happiness etc.

 

[Ion]

To disobey God is to assert ones own authority over His. Its to fail to recognize Who he is, and place yourself in His position, becoming the determiner of morality for yourself. It’s to say that there is no God, nothing higher than myself. In any case, the catechism teaches that, by his act, Adam *preferred *himself to God, wanting to be like Him while apart from Him. Jesus tells us otherwise, that apart from Him we can do nothing. This is the basis of the New Covenant. This is the very relationship that man scorned at the fall according to church teachings and that man requires in order to exist in a state of justice, order, harmony, peace, happiness etc.

When Adam told God that “the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” he was sincere before God, otherwise he would have got an extra punishment for perjury. Adam alone would have not eat from the tree. Adam was holy at the time he made the decision, but his mind did not have the knowledge of good and evil. Its a little hard to imagine how his mind worked, but can you explain a little bit what was in Adams mind?
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