(July 24, 2023 at 3:59 pm)emjay Wrote:(July 24, 2023 at 2:44 pm)WinterHold Wrote: A parent is not God.
Your parents didn't create you, they only acted as transport for DNA.
You and I were always mere constructs, orchestrated by God in our essence.
The real question is "who made the spark between your mom and dad" ?
That spark which was a life-long cause and effect led to the intercourse between your parents.
Every life event leading to that spark, which caused the intercourse was part of what we call "fate".
Your parents are mere tools.
The only thing under their control was the choice of "doing the intercourse" or not.
That was just a rough analogy. The point was, if you were created, your creator only has might, not right, to mistreat you. And if he does that, he can at most expect obedience, but not genuine love and respect, because that has to be earned.
But why won't you be grateful ?
Don't you have two eyes?
A tongue and two lips?
Even if you are blind and deaf; you still have thoughts and a brain.
The obedience is for getting rewards only, but the more one is obedient for God the more they realize that this life is a mere timed simulation that will end very soon. So it won't last, no pain in this simulation will last, it is only for a timed period.
Being a timed test is in itself a mercy deserving obedience. Imaging if instead, humans lived for Millions of years, with chronic diseases.
