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And Hades told the people of Argos to sacrifice Argos Princess, Andromeda to appease and stop the destruction of Argos. At the end of the story the mankind succeeded by the help of Percius the son of Zeus.
In one of the scenes theirs a discussion between Zeus and the other gods about their creation - mankind, the gods want Zeus to punish and destroy mankind because of their disobedience and non-worship of the gods. And Zeus respond, NO, "we can’t destroy them “we need their love and worship”.
Watching this movie is quite entertaining specially I’m w/ my family, but as Christian it somehow made me raise question, the question of whether or not God has needs, particularly of man’s Love and Worship, If so, in what sense? Let’s examine…
The Bible commands us to be helpers as members of the body of Christ and to love and to praise God. Does God need our help, love, and praise because he is lonely, and we are an important piece of the puzzle for him to be fulfilled within himself? NO… according to the biblical view. Rather, God is perfect, complete, and entirely self-existent. This view assumes that there is no deficiency within God's inner being.
Paul pointed out that God is the creator of the world and "Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things." (Acts17:25). Paul believed that God has no inner unmet needs because he is the source of all things. To put it in the form of a mathematical equation, one can say that God minus the world = God, but the world minus God = zero.
Theologians who believe God's interaction with the world shapes his inner being debate this traditional view.
As one theologian once remarked, it would be very embarrassing if, after having created the world, God should become dependent upon it.
Grace means God extends unmerited favor to us, but if he created the world because of an unmet need, grace would no longer be grace because what God does for us would be in part selfishly motivated by a deficiency within him.
Why then did God create the world if he did not need it? Did he create out of a sense of sheer power? The biblical answer is that God was motivated by love and not by inner need (John 3:16 1 John 4:8). It is the nature of love to give and to share, and creation reflects the abundance and overflowing nature of God as love.
Redemption through the incarnation of God in Jesus is also a testimony to the nature of God as love. As the writer to the Hebrews put it, Jesus is able "to help in the time of need" because he himself was tempted in all points as we are (Heb. 3:15-16). Not only does God suffer with us and infinitely "feel" our pain, God also takes delight in our successes and rejoices in our happiness.
My favorite verses in the Bible is 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 and it declares...
If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing. Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.
God loves us, and He is love and out of love He gave us Grace. No! God doesn't need anything from us.
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