Dark Virtue said:Interesting. Why does an omnimax being need/want us to be dependant on Him?
Why wouldn't an omnimax being want a relationship with his creation?
Dark Virtue said:The student analogy has one large flaw. When your students can't reach that bar what are the ramifications? When God's people in the OT couldn't reach that bar, what happened to them?
Not sure what the OT problem is that you are referring to here DV. The law provided a way for them to ask forgiveness and God gave it. The OT jews that asked forgiveness in God prescribed way are in heaven. They attained their goal.
As for my students...I am not God DV. I cannot set my expectations as high as God does. And my rewards to them are not nearly as good as His are to us either