Is God an Egomaniac? // Ty Gibson

Why does God tell us to worship Him, praise Him, exalt Him? Seriously, what’s that all about? Is God insecure? Does He have a fragile ego? Does He need to be told how great He is for His sake? Or is there something deeper going on here?

[israelcarr]

Hmmm. Of late, I have been having questions relating to this. With this message, I am still struggling with this, but thanks for addressing this topic Ps. Ty.

[CandieJC]

God is the PETROL of my life!! Yes!! 🙌🏾

[igorovimustuluci]

Actually, probably the most important truth of all and, honestly, immaculately delivered.

[venicewilliams]

Amen 🙏 what a wonderfully clear explanation of my existence in God. Praise the Lord 🙏

[ӇЄӇ-фв]

thank you, Ty, for reminding us to stay humble

[joronobs]

We were created to powered by God. Awesome🙏🏽

[lega]

Any one who says God is a egomaniac has brought God down to his or her level. God is so infinitely powerful we finites cannot comprehend what God is. But we can know who he is as revealed by Jesus

[msjewelcat]

If God was self-centered He would never have given us Jesus as a sacrifice for our sin offering...for our redemption...for our eternal life.

[deltad]

Ty, about the macaroni and koolaid in an engine, I just want to ask, didn’t the Delorean in back to the future run on that?

[DesGardius-megf]

Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality (NPD) as discussed by the DSM-5:

1. A grandiose sense of self-importance, i.e. exaggerates talents and expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements. (Job 38:4 & 31-35, Psalm 19:1, Isaiah 42:8, Jeremiah 32:17 & Romans 1:18-20)

2. Preoccupation with fantasies of ideal love, success, knowledge, power, and beauty. (Isaiah 45:23, 52:12-15 & 53:1-12, Jeremiah 3:17, Romans 14:11 & Philippians 2:10)

3. Belief that he or she is so "special" and "unique" and can only be understood by other high-status or quality people or institutions. (Leviticus 11:44, 1 Samuel 2:2, Isaiah 55:8, Habakkuk 1:13 & 1 Corinthians 2:14)

4. Is inter-personally 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)

5. Has a sense of entitlement. (Leviticus 9:18, 1 Corinthians 10:31 & Revelation 4:11)

6. Requires excessive admiration. (Exodus 25-31)

7. A lack of empathy or an unwillingness to identify with feelings and needs of others. (Numbers 11:1-3, 4-35, 16:49 & 21:4-9, Luke 9:61-62)

8. Envy of others (Exodus 20:5 & 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, 5:9 & 6:15, Joshua 24:19, Isaiah 42:8)

9. Arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes (throughout the goddamn Bible)

By definition, all I need is 5 out these 9 criteria for a diagnosis of a narcissist, but as you see, the Bible god Yahweh, fits ALL 9 of these criteria.

[katrinalucas]

I think it is innate that we need to worship something. Some is our Holy God, for others it's sports, health, art, other God's of culture. God is saying direct your worship to the creator NOT the false things, not only did I give you life, I am the source to life and my presence in your life will be the oxygen you need to live.

[deltad]

Check it out: so people who say they don’t need God and they are still happy. You can tell them no, they are running on empty and their sending unit is broken telling them they are full.

[taniaseal]

Why did God make us with all these human qualities if He wants us to deny all our human qualities and change into something else. Thankfully most people recognise that being a decent kind person is better than being a selfish ego maniac, and we try our best to be decent people but there's so much bigotry, misogyny and fear mongering in the bible which doesn't seem very good or loving and just comes across as man trying to control each other. Why couldn't God have made it easier to understand and follow?

[Demonoicgamer]

It’s fine for him to be selfish because he’s selfish, before you say it’s for our benefit but he made it that way. The only guy who demands constant praise is that of a insecure being. If I do that I’m a tyrant, if god does that he’s just that’s hypocritical.

[xymonau]

It's absolutely wicked to regard god as seeking man's view of glory.

[okellojeremy]

It seemed to me that God is desperate for attention