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God asks people to treat Him as God because mankind has been too deeply corrupted, and people do not treat Him as God, but rather as a person. People always make demands of God and always have notions about God. This proves that people are greedy by nature, and that before God, they are not possessed of any reason at all. People’s pursuits, thoughts, and aspirations, these things are all demands of God and attempts to solicit things from Him, they are all done by people in the hope of gaining something from God. People making too many demands of God and having too many extravagant desires proves that people are truly lacking in conscience and reason. They are all demanding and soliciting things for their own sakes, or trying to argue and find excuses for themselves—they do all of this for themselves.

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People making too many demands of God illustrates that people have been corrupted to a certain point, and that in their belief in God, they don’t treat Him as God at all. On the surface, you believe in God, and you are able to follow Him, yet in your attitude toward Him, and in your views on many things, you don’t treat God like the Creator at all. If you treat God like God, if you treat God as the Creator, then you should stand in your position as a created being, and it would be impossible for you to make any demands of God, or have any extravagant desires. Instead, in your heart, you would be capable of true submission, and you would be fully capable of believing in God in accordance with His requirements, and of submitting to all of His work.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. People Make Too Many Demands of God