Good stuff.. I'm seeing why this is the one without responses though. :) I see it simlilarly. We're like little kids, being chastised by our Father, and we're too spiritually immature to realize that Daddy wants what's best for us. So we make up all kinds of excuses.. he's just being mean... he likes to yell.. He puts rules on us, just to have rules.. And in the spiritual, it's no different.. These rules aren't for us, Father has a double standard, so that we don't have to live up to his expectations for these other people.. they're expired, they were for another people in another time.. All of which ignore the very plain truth that what He asks of us would be in our best interest, even if He didn't exist.