In your religious experience, is it more important to remember to worship your God or love your fellow man?

I'll add a little bit to brwnsugr's post: if you don't love others, your worship is otiose anyway.

Worshiping God with others on a certain day of the week is supposed to be the culmination of your week long worship, not the only time you do it. How we show God our love is by every day loving other people the best we can.

People who, for example, screw people out of money all week (in the name of good capitalism, of course), then arrive at church Sunday morning bright eyed and suit-clad, might as well stay at home.

Worship is a grateful response to a loving God, in recognition of all He gives us, namely life. If it becomes just a matter of bowing and scraping and mouthing "O Lord how wonderful thou art," then do yourself and God a favor and sleep in on Sundays.

Conceptually, I find it much easier to love my fellow humans than to love God. I'm agnostic, not at all sure if God exists or, if he or she does exist, just what God may be like. So loving God can be tricky.

But loving other human beings is something that's relatively easy to understand-- in theory, anyway.

OTOH maybe God, the right sort of God, is much more lovable than the average human. More lovable than I am, anyway.:-).

When I called myself a Christian back in college, I think I would have answered that the best way I know of loving God was * through * loving my fellow humans.

When I used to read through the Bible, the "love your neighbor" and "do justice, love mercy" verses were the ones that seemed to make sense to me. Believing in conservative fundamentalist Christianity's theology about Jesus was harder to imagine.

What's more, at least part of the time Jesus and the old Jewish prophets had apparently described the love of your fellow humans as being central to loving & obeying God. So the man that the fundamentalists called the "Son of God" and advised everyone to worship and obey seemed to me to be saying, "As you have done it for the least of these my brethren, you also have done it for me."

That makes it essential to be nice to "the least of these my brethren," I think.

In loving them, perhaps you're loving God in disguise.

Usually, if you worship God you will love your neighbor as yourself. It is part of loving God. At times when I am faced with a choice of going to church or doing extra work, I think about the commandments and that God said:

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"I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

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You shall not have other gods besides me.

Exodus 20:2-3

I think love for fellow people or humans is most important. Various beliefs in different gods can tell people to hurt or kill people, but if you see that people are more important than any god you will respect that life and person.

Love fellow man because we are the body of Jesus Christ. When we recognize who we are and that Christ is in each of us, we're prepared to know God. There must be loving fellowship in his body, so loving fellow man is as important as God.

In Vedanta Hinduism they are two equally good paths to God.

Bhakti Yoga is devotion, love, and worship of God.

Raja Yoga is acting in the world to help others.

You choose your path to reach God suited to who you are inside. If at any time you feel like changing your approach, you are welcome to do that. The man of action can sit down and pray, the worshiper can reach out to others.

I won't bring religion into it....love my fellow man.

All you need is love. With that you can accept people for who and what they are without trying to change them. This world would be dull and boring if everyone dressed, acted and believed exactly the same thing. Just like good little reprogrammed robots.

The two are inseparable in my view, because you can not love God if you don't love your fellow man and you cannot love your fellow man if you don't love God. I'm not trying to be evasive, but there is no either or imo.

Jesus advised us interior the Gospels to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves because of fact in this the full regulation is contained. the ten Commandments would be broken up like this: the 1st 4 Commandments communicate approximately Loving God and the final 6 Commandments communicate approximately loving our neighbor. i desire this has helped you!

In my spiritual experience, loving God with all of my heart, mind and soul, and loving my neighbor as myself, are equally important.

Thanks for asking.

Peace and Namaste!