For instance, abrahamic God tells you that you are sinful and horrible man even before you really do anything because of the original sin and whatnot, and says that if you worship him and be obedient you get rewarded in afterlife because he "forgiving".
Small correction: the Christians says the abrahamic god says so.
Not really. The prophet Isaiah spoke of every person being a sinner, and I think it's quite safe to say he wasn't a Christian.
Hey, he's a Prophet, isn't he? Who're you to say he didn't follow Christian doctrine
This kind of thing is why it's a bit silly to take it literally. I mean, doing so also kind of implies God is somehow every skin colour, has hair of all lengths, simultaneously does and does not have a beard... I've mentioned it before, but the most sensible interpretation is that the human soul is in the image of God. Although, in the absence of vast knowledge, just the tiniest smidgen more prone to doing things wrong.
Yea, pretty much. I know that's a common interpretation, but it still seems to be fairly common that people think we literally look like God, Sistine Chapel style.
Why not all three? And other things, to boot? And I mean, what constitutes worship is its own question.
Thing is, I see absolutely nothing as deserving of worship (which, in my personal definition, includes placing something on a pedestal higher than oneself and throwing praise at it). I mean, it's all perspective. Compared to monkeys, we have what could be conceived of as conceptually similar to unlimited power. But I wouldn't want a monkey to worship me. If I met a being three times as powerful, or even as kind, as I am, I would not want to worship it and would be insulted were it to suggest I do so.
God combines vast power with supposedly infinite goodness (though there have been challenges to that last). That he expects me to worship him before he gives me my treat, even if he were to exist, would make a rebel of me.
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