The Supreme Relationship
It is simple but it has a deep meaning.
The Bible describes the God as the Lord.
It is a little strange; why can the God be the Lord of every human? Does He use everybody as His servant. Or otherwise, the Bible must term Him as the supreme observer or watcher of mankind. But, the Bible uses the title that implicates direct and intimate relationship between the God and a man: the Lord and a servant if not a slave.
If the God created mankind just to see how they will live, fight, and perish, the God must be indeed a cool observer and a cold watcher. He must have no feeling to see all the human beings get terminated some day in future. And He would not even send His messengers, His prophets, His angels, and His Son to the human world.
If a good lord has bad servants in a remote place, he would surely send his messenger to them to correct them. Why? Because the lord has responsibility for their behaviors and deeds. As long as the lord admits that they are servant under his authority, he has to guide them and discipline them to make them reasonable servants who do not harm reputation of the lord.
So, as the God created the universe and mankind, he must want the universe to work precisely according to his expectation and mankind to behave precisely according to his expectation. So, the universe must follow the laws He set. And mankind must follow the code of conduct he has suggested.
So, the idea that the God sent His Son to this world to save and guide human beings and their souls supports the above idea. However, His Son just appeared in a restricted place in a specific era just in the appearance of an ordinary man. So, it would take 2000 years that the coming of His Son to this world has an influence on all over the world. And in these 2000 years many lived and died in various places on the earth without knowing the fact of the coming of His Son. It might really puzzle people.
Why did not His Son come at one time in history like a superman flying on a super aircraft which would carry Him all over the world and show Him to everybody living on the earth. Then only within a month all the Europeans, Africans, Asians, and others would see Him so as to realize that the God is real and His Son is real. But the God sent His Son as if a human lord had sent his human son to a remote place.
Apart from this puzzle, this relationship, if established or realized, indicates that there is a kind of love between the God and mankind. From a religious point of view, it is interpreted as that the God tries to save as many souls as possible. The God is trying to prevent human beings from falling to the hell. This is indeed love in a religious sense. So, His Son, namely Christ Jesus, even taught His disciples to call the God Father in Heaven. It means that we, humans, are allowed to receive love from the God as if we received it from our own true father.
But, still, the basic relationship for the God and mankind is the Lord and servants. Only though His Son, Christ Jesus, we are allowed to call the God our Father in Heaven and receive love as such.
Yet, in Islam, there is no such a possibility to keep the said relationship. Muslims are all treated like bad servants before Allah, namely the God. They are all requested to prostrate themselves when praying to the God. Muslims are not allowed to call their God the Father in Heaven.
Judaists have a simple relationship with the God. The God just created their ancestors. And the God protects them so long as Judaists have faith in Him. And Judaists know that their God loves good and hates evil. It is as if to know their own God was the most important thing. So, to change their religion or their God is the most serious sin. Their God mostly requests them to keep faith in Him. It must have been, however, very difficult in the long human history with full of turmoils, wars, and tragedies to find, always remember, and stick to one God. So, Judaists have been requested such a simple thing of. It looks like a primitive relationship even before the concept of the father and the lord prevailed in the religious sphere.
So, anyway, we have to advance this relationship with the God, since it is the 21st century now.
But what is the relationship to be? It must be more than the Father and sons and daughters, the Lord and servants, the Creator and creatures, or the Cool Observer and poor living things.
What will it be?
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Mar 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.