God is not just a being, He is a person and He wants a personal relationship with people--His creation. This requires two-way communication. We must speak to Him in prayer, but we must also expect to hear from Him in our "inner man". Too many of our man-made denominations are willing to settle for simply knowing the right stuff a b o u t Him. And they will [falsely] teach that this is all that is required for heaven.
God has attributes; we know that He is omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, etc. But God also has character traits; He is merciful and compassionate and loving and desires intimacy (etc.). God came to the earth in the person of His Son, Jesus to restore all that man had forfeited away in the Garden. Has it not occurred to you that God wants us to be l o v i n g l y obedient--an act of personal submission; we need to do what God commands, and what God desires because it is the right thing to do, and because it will be for our own good. What a drastic difference this is from 'Allah', who personally delights in the death of those who will not submit to him. His believers are commanded to do things that run contrary to the nature of man as the true God created him. Obeying the true and living God will always transform you into His loving image--loving, faithful, giving, patient, kind (see 1 Corinthians 13).
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