Disclaimer: this is unfinished and I will most likely edit it later lol 🙂

When one gets asked for the opportunity to be GOD, they would most likely not oppose of it. There’s the idea that when one is GOD they will receive all power and would be absolute. In other words, they would be worry free. Although all of that is accurate, there is still some of it missing. The idea of love. The idea that GOD is all loving, amiable, caring, benevolent, attentive, and affectionate(if anything, words limit the true love that GOD has). Now, how can this be a problem? 

I like to use the comparison of the relationship between a parent and their child. The Parent having an unconditional love for their child. The parent showing their love by being there for them, helping them with their problems instead of just criticizing, show them patience and being understanding. That would be GOD in this situation 

Then there is the child. When growing up they make mistakes, they learn about life and about how it works. They then reach a point in their life when they realize that they have free will and could do what ever they want. They begin to construct this idea that it is up to them to build themselves up and that they should do whatever it is their heart tells them to do. That would be us in this situation.(there is also a fine line between becoming who you are and becoming something destructive)

Once this stage of their life arrives., the majority of the ideas that they begin to form go against what their parent has taught them. The conflict begins. They begin to make decisions that their parents tell them are not wise, they make decisions that will affect their lives. Some will listen to their parents since they understand what they’re doing won’t help themselves. But others will begin to reject their parents rules but not only that but they will then think that their parents are limiting them. They will think that what they are doing is what’s right, they will think and feel that what they’re doing is who they truly are and that they’re parents don’t understand them and are only obstacles to becoming themselves.

The all loving parent will attempt to guide the child and will explain that their advice isn’t to benefit themselves but for their own good. But since the child is feeling limited then they will then make the decision to leave the moment they become adults. Since the child is still a child then they won’t be able to leave but they will the moment they can. When this moment arrives, the parent can no longer do anything, keeping the child in their house will only make things worse. The parent can only let the child make their own decisions.

But what if the child wants to stay but still continue to do the things that the parent does not allow? 

Is the parent obligated to allow that since they are all loving?

All loving does not mean tolerance. In other words, just because the parent is all loving it doesn’t mean that they have to allow the foul behavior. But it does mean that even with the foul behavior the parent still loves them. The care that the parent has for the child does not disappear(hence they continue to persuade the child that their behavior is bad, the parent only wants what’s best for them). 

There is also the idea of rules. A lot of people believe that it would then make the love conditional and not unconditional (having rules). First, we have to understand the idea of “rules”. Whats the point of them? The purpose for them are actually straight forward, they exist to have order. The idea that when rules exist, then there could be order and everyone can be on the same page. The point of them is to have an organized system. In contrary, rules have become something that limits actions but in a negative connotation. Society has constructed the idea that rules are only stopping people from achieving their true selves. This obviously doesn’t mean that systems like these exist. For example, some countries in the middle east have adopted theocracy for their form of government, leading to them to enforce their religion on their population and not allowing any other religion. That would be an example of rules that are extreme. Those are not the rules that I am referring to, I’m referring to rules that only bring good to an individual. 

The parent that allows their child to continue to commit foul behavior is also the parent that does not care for them. As stated previously, the idea of these rules is to edify the child not for it to become a burden. Considering that, then that would make the parent not caring because they are allowing them to do things are harming them. The parent that truly cared for their child would not want them to do things that harms themselves.  

There is also the idea rules do not make the love that an individual has for another unconditional. The idea that following each others rules is what allows the love to exist or not. If that were the case, then, yes, the love is most definitely conditional. In the contrary, the idea that I’m attempting to explain is that the love still exists whether or not the rules are followed. Like stated previously, rules are used to construct something, to have some sort of organization and order. Not following each others rules will only lead to destruction, to unnecessary arguments that aren’t finished and therefore build up resentment within the relationship. One can attempt a relationship without following each others rules but it most likely won’t last. For example, if there was a romantic relationship and one partner still has other sexual partners while the other does not then there is probably going to be conflict in that topic. The more contemporary romantic relationships today are definitely more free and more open, I guess one can say. This type of example could be said about any relationship, whether if it’s between family members, work, friends, or even academic relationships. 

There’s the that idea that love can still exist even after the relationship is not there. Just because someone hurts me in the relationship it doesn’t mean that I still don’t love them. As a matter of fact, the only reason why someone can come out as hurt is because they have a certain level of love for that person.

I have personally hurt someone in that way. Currently, there’s this girl that I really like, but before we got to the spot of our relationship we’re in right now, I hurt her. I made her feel used. I acted in a way that created assumptions that there was a mutual feeling of love, which there was. I had the great idea of still mentioning my feelings for another girl(I was confused at the time and I have now realized that I didn’t have that type of love for that other girl). This made her feel like she could never really be an option for me and that the other girl could be, making her feel like she was just the girl I would go back to if it didn’t work out for me. This made her feel bad(understatement), but the main reason it made her feel really bad was because she had a strong romantic liking of me. The only reason I felt bad for what I had done is because I also had a strong liking for her. But even after I had done that for her she still liked me. As a matter of fact, she recognizes that she still really likes me by admitting that it would be better to go our separate ways after the damage I did to her.  

The idea that hurting another individual and then not liking them means that they didn’t have the true love to begin with. Getting hurt by another individual shouldn’t change your opinion of them(in the aspect of loving them). This does not mean that one should continue to be with the person but this does mean that hurting one another should not be a factor to continue to loving someone. 

To go back to the main point, the Bible describes GOD as an all loving being and rejecting him(our father) probably kills him because we are his children. I know, I know, I probably sound like a nice little stereotypical church boy right now but I do firmly believe in that. But that’s exactly how I felt when someone, who I hold extremely close to my heart, told me that they chose to do the wrong instead of whats good for them. I deeply care for this person and would do ANYTHING to give them the best of the best because that’s what they deserve.