Respecting God (Do we need to?)

[anagogy]

Does God/Creator care if you respect him?

The Lord's prayer says "For thine is the kingdom,the power, and the glory,For ever and ever. Amen."

Should we give away our free will to God?

I don't think we need saving or salvation. All is well as Ra says.

But does God respect when you respect him?

Or is he beyond any human comprehension and experience?

God, or the Source, or the Logos, gave us free will (the belief in separation, which produces the illusion or simulation of an 'independent will') in order that we might explore selfhood, or individuality.

Having explored individuality, we can then choose to reunify with the Logos, or maintain separation as long as we want in the infinite illusion. But eventually everyone returns to the Source. All ice-cubes eventually melt. :)

The creator is not affected by your respect, or lack of respect. It's love is truly unconditional.

As far as salvation, it depends how you look at it. We need salvation from our own ignorance, and that is what the Logos provides, for it is Truth itself. The Light of Truth is needed to dispel the darkness of illusion/distortion.

Karma is simply the natural attraction to the self of those lessons which will elevate the self to a higher level of consciousness. Sometimes those lessons are hard, so humans look at it as 'punishment'. For example, somebody murders somebody when they are in their early 20's. The lesson that may be attracted to re-balance their consciousness might be a life where they are also cut down early in their life (not necessarily murder but it could be). This might be interpreted as punishment, but it is really to help the soul understand the ramifications of what they did to the other individual. So karma is really about rebalancing the spiritual energy complex. That which is misaligned by experience, must be then realigned by experience of a reciprocal nature.

So our lessons, or karma, is simply the natural asking of our souls for truth and the universe delivering those experiences which will enlighten the soul to the ultimate truth of infinite unity of consciousness. Realizing that truth, at a fundamental level, could be likened akin to 'salvation'.