(November 20, 2014 at 9:55 am)Drich Wrote: What do we want with children? Why do we care for them? why do we love them? Why do we spend our lives devoted to them in one form or fashion?
We are made in God's image, meaning we share emotion value and even a sense of need. If you can relate to how we desire to bind with our kids you might have some sense as to why God would want us to share a bond with Him.
The rules He provides (and subsequent attonement) are used as a sift. To seperate those who do want to share such a bond and those who do not.
The problems with this analogy are myriad.
1) Children of any species will generally grow up into something resembling their parents. You and I will not grow up to be omnipotent beings.
2) No one, other than an emotional monster, wants their kids to worship them---I don't even want my pets to worship me.
3) Sharing an emotional bond does not generally involve worship and it shouldn't.
4) Parents usually provide rather better for their children than the world provides for people.
5) Good parents do not play favorites among their kids.
6) Most people value praise from their peers, not from toddlers.
7) The goal of parenthood is to make self sufficient adults out of children. God appears to want us to be mostly self sufficient in childhood (i.e. like of earth) and then provide for us absolutely afterwards---rather backwards.
I could go on, and on.
6) Good parents
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
