Have you ever thought about what it means to be a child of God? Of course, a great deal depends on how you think of God. Is God a loving father, a stern father? Does God expect us to never bring shame on the family name? Will God let us crawl up on his lap? Are we ever the child of the mother God.
My perception is that God (at least the God of institutional religion) expects us to be well-behaved, obedient and compliant children. In other words, we must always be children. We can never become adults of God, sent out to think for ourselves, take responsibility for our lives and our minds, making our own ways in the world.
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