RE: What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?
November 20, 2014 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2014 at 12:46 pm by Drich.)
(November 20, 2014 at 10:52 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(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?Do you demand your children worship you?
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.
As per my response to Jen-A yes!!! and so does everyone else!
(November 20, 2014 at 12:43 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(November 20, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Drich Wrote: That's not true. Not even close. the 'evolutionary need to care for our children/young' typically ends shortly after the can care for themselves, some even go as far as adolesence, but once they hit a certain age they 'family' is typically broken up. It is very rare even for higher cognitive able animals to maintain close relationships with off spring for a whole life time.emphasis added
Hardly. Being a good grandmother or grandfather does have evolutionary advantages because it increases the possibility that your progeny will continue, which is what natural selection selects for. Not surprisingly there are many species, admittedly mostly primates, in which continued the support of older sisters and mothers is the primary factor in determining whether a first time mother will successfully raise her young to adulthood. And there are other species that do similar things. Elephant herds are matriarchies run by the great-grandma.
If this were true then why does 98% of everything living on this planet not follow this model?
