The ultimate goal of the God character is for you to kiss his ass for eternity. That is not love, that is narcissism. "Look at me". Narcissism is born out of insecurity.
You know why words like "lord" "kingdom" "master" are used in that book? Because that is what humans lived under back then, ROYALTY, KINGS, even polytheists lived under Kings. And back then everyone mistook good fortune and success of class and status as coming from a divine world above.
Back then, even in polytheism it was far more important to obey the king and ruling and warrior class because life was far more harsh back then and the mortality rate was far higher, and the city states competed for resources so loyalty was far more demanded back then.
That book DOES NOT reflect our modern western secular concepts of morality, pluralism in things like consent of the governed. The character God in that book does not need our permission to rule over us, he wasn't voted into office, he cannot be removed from his position and he does not owe anyone any explanations. The God character in that book does depict acts of kindness but to loyalists and very little kindness to dissent, and at the end of the book throws all who didn't kiss his ass into eternal torture. That is not the behavior of an elected western official, but the behavior of a king, and kings are dictators. Your God has more in common with Kim Jong Un as a character, than he does with any western elected official.
You know why words like "lord" "kingdom" "master" are used in that book? Because that is what humans lived under back then, ROYALTY, KINGS, even polytheists lived under Kings. And back then everyone mistook good fortune and success of class and status as coming from a divine world above.
Back then, even in polytheism it was far more important to obey the king and ruling and warrior class because life was far more harsh back then and the mortality rate was far higher, and the city states competed for resources so loyalty was far more demanded back then.
That book DOES NOT reflect our modern western secular concepts of morality, pluralism in things like consent of the governed. The character God in that book does not need our permission to rule over us, he wasn't voted into office, he cannot be removed from his position and he does not owe anyone any explanations. The God character in that book does depict acts of kindness but to loyalists and very little kindness to dissent, and at the end of the book throws all who didn't kiss his ass into eternal torture. That is not the behavior of an elected western official, but the behavior of a king, and kings are dictators. Your God has more in common with Kim Jong Un as a character, than he does with any western elected official.
