John Piper - How isn't God a narcissistic megalomaniac?

[PhoenixtheII]

Sorry, love is given, not demanded.

Oh, I love you all, so much so, genocide is warranted.

That's like a psychopath punching in your face into the hospital telling he loves you and you accept it and tell the doctor it's love bruises.

The gaslighting on this... just wow.

[Captain_Crayzay]

I believe in GOD and I believe he favors some more than others. He seems to bless those who are close to his likeness.. Narcissistic people. I've seen people who don't believe in him blessed and people who love and serve him cursed. Sure not all one way or all the other but my point is even a blind man can see GOD plays favorites.. Because not everyone is blind! And to be honest I also think it's cruel to make us all exist for an eternity! We either suffer in agonizing torture or kiss his ass in heaven for eternity. Heaven to me would be to not exist at all.

[jackkurtisproductions]

They repeat what we say and refute it with zero logic.. Stockholm syndrome

[denisehorn]

"I will place enmity between you and the woman."  Fine--I get that.  But... if I know that, and I have tried with all of my heart to overcome evil, why is "evil" continuously sent to me?  Am I that disregarded; and boy the requirements are stiff.  Do this; do that; don't do this; don't do that; I have tried to comply. What on earth would it ever take to make God, or SATAN, happy?  Job is what got me.  If God wants me to fight "Satan", then why is he sending Satan to ruin me?  What kind of a God does that, and lets not forget that Satan doesn't love us either.  What is this; a joke?  "Job 1:  "Have you seen my servant Job?"  Isn't Job good enough for God?  Why just outright destroy him?  I don't like being a toy with either one of them.  I guess, if I decide in the future that I am not crazy, I really am on my own.  A disasterous mistake that has a consciousness level.  What the heck am I supposed to do now?  Blot me out.

[DesGardius-megf]

These are the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), all of which fit the Bible God, Yahweh and Jesus (assuming he is God in the flesh) to a T. Someone who has more than 5 of these symptoms is a Narcissist.

#1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance, i.e. exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements (All the places in the Bible where the phrase "I am the Lord" appears)

#2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of ideal power, success, love and beauty (Isaiah 45:23, Romans 14:11 & Philippians 2:10)

#3. Believes that he or she is so "special" and "unique" and can only be understood by other high-status quality people or institutions (1 Samuel 2:2, Habakkuk 1:13 & 1 Corinthians 2:14)

#4. Requires excessive admiration (Exodus chapters 25 through 31)

#5. Has a sense of entitlement, i.e. unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations (Numbers 9:13)

#6. Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e. takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends (Exodus 7:3 & 13-14, 10:27, 11:10, 14:4 & 20:5, Deuteronomy 5:6 & 7:2)

#7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others (Numbers 11:1-3 & 4-35, 16:49 & 21:4-9)

#8. Arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes (Genesis 18:14, Job 38:4 & 31-35, Psalm 19:1 & Jeremiah 32:27)

#9. Jealousy and possessiveness (Exodus 20:5 & 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, 5:9 & 6:15, Joshua 24:19, Isaiah 42:8 & 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

#10. Rage attacks when you do not sufficiently meet his or her needs (Leviticus 10:1-3, Deuteronomy 32:17-25, 2 Samuel 6:6-7 & 24:13, 2 Kings 2:23-24, Isaiah 13:15-16, Hosea 13:16, Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15, Luke 19:27 & 45-46, John 2:14-15 & Acts 12:23)

#11. Excessive need to feel special, adored, loved, appreciated, or admired (Far too many verses to count!)

#12. Controlling behaviors; tries to control how you spend your time, i.e. how you talk, dress, etc. (Matthew 5:27-28, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Ephesians 5:4 & 1 Timothy 2:9-10)

#13. Blaming you for behaviors or feelings, i.e. "YOU made me to it!" or "It's YOUR fault this happened!"
(Entire book of Ezekiel)

#14. An attitude that demonstrates "the world revolves around me" and "you need to cater to my ideas, opinions, thoughts, and feelings." (1 Corinthians 10:31 & Revelation 4:11)

#15. An unwillingness to reflect on his/her own behaviors (All throughout the Bible)

[gandalfssbane]

"In the worlds, eyes... now let me make a shit ton of excuses to enable the narcissist I love". This makes a lot of sense if you define love the way a narcissistic egomaniac would most like you to feel and experience it.

[danielshepherd]

Is God a megalomaniac?
Short answer: Yes

[Demonoicgamer]

You saying “oh it’s in our interest to praise and worship him” assuming he could have done it a different way says wether it’s narcissistic.

[transformers_quotes]

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”Ephesians 2:8-9“for ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”
Romans 10:13

[Someone_wrf]

Basically my mindset for several years now and counting.

[andrewglasgow]

God is not a narcissist. God created the internet. But I'm confused. Why doesn't God just create a website and update us with all his rules? And get an email address. It would be easier to send God an email with our praises of worship that he can read and respond to rather than having to listening to everyone at the same time. Also with email, he could respond to us when he has time rather than everyone talking out loud, hoping he hears us, gets enough praise and does something.

If God had a website, we would be better off. We could count and track the number of praises everyone sends so we could determine how much praise he requires before he does something to help us. It would be good feedback.

Or a texting! If God told us his phone number we could see when our prayers were delivered, if he read it and how long it takes him to responded. Also he could help us by texting back how to correctly worship him and praise him.

[Catherine_Dana]

*God🌋is Megalomaniac🌪️in His Godly Power⚡.*

[TomorrowisYesterday]

1:30 - no that is John the Baptist behaving exactly like the victim of narcissistic abuse.
2:20 - no, that is narcissistic abuse.

[Samuel-vewx]

I think john piper is the real narcissist.

[MNUTZ]

the highest level of intelligence that's why we live in this hunger games type world its survival of the fittest. You get tested with all kinds of evil traps you have to pass.

[hecklwarr]

God isn't a narcissists. For one, He is a GOD. HE CREATED THE UNIVERSE. That should clear some stuff up. Secondly, you may think why would God create beings just to rule over. Well, for his pleasure of course! Don't you have children for pleasure? To feel the accomplishment that is creating a family? To love and be loved? Also, people say that God just created us to worship him. Not true. God created us to love us, and he wants us to love Him in return. Like a parent. Think about it, if God created humans to just worship him then how are you able to say otherwise? Cause we have free will! You can't make a voice recorder love you because it's just replaying prerecorded messages! We aren't like that! We have the choice to love God or not.

[damianwhite]

Mr Fruitcake supreme with icing made of Lunacy

[TrollFace]

For so the devil wanted God's children to be divided amongst each other, so he thall have created the concept of sectors of religions. Roman catholicism and Catholcism, Shia and Sunni, for all sectors were created to wreak of sin in the internal parts of all religions. As God's children called out one another for worshipping a false prophet, or saying he (Jesus) is God, or maybe claiming Yeshua is God, or Allah, for in reality, all brothers andsisters must be united under one God. One God who does not discriminate others because they give praise to Allah or Yeshua, one God who allows others to connect to him through other Gods, through other religions! halt! for the devil blinded his children with hate and conflict, crucifying the son of God as punishment thall God wanted Unity. thall more division he creates, thus more of God's children will be weak in mind and subject to the Devil's wrath. But praise thee, for he (God) will help all of us in times of need, rejoice in the unity of all, for God wanted all of us to be united in Faith, Love, Gospel, and health.

[WiseTrails]

Our problem is not realising we were created for the glory of God and he is not a narcissist because it is rightful glory, Narcissists want undeserved glory.

[hangryturtle]

I think the problem with all these comments is that people do not understand “total depravity”, and so suffering seems unreasonable. These people perish from lack of knowledge.