There's no doubt that what he asks of us can be very insulting to a person's pride. He asks us to humble ourselves before him, to make ourselves nothing and lift him up as everything.
Attention seeking to fulfill his own ego. Again..."here are these rules you must obey even though I know you can't because I made you, but if you worship me I might let you slide on the rules, otherwise I'm punishing you"
If someone doesn't want to believe God is good then I don't see how they could ever worship him.
Not a matter of
wanting to believe he is good. It's a matter of simply
can't believe he is good given the scripture associated with him.
Also, the biggest part of worshiping God is submitting to his commands so it's not some free pass he gives to his servants to sin.
"Yes yes, bow and grovel and cater to my whim and I won't punish you for things I already know you're going to do because I made you knowing you would do them."
The story Christians believe is that God made everything good in the beginning, meaning without sin,pain, and suffering and also without a fractured relationship between us and him. It was when Adam didn't believe God about the forbidden fruit that we believe the world in it's current state came to be, including our imperfections. We also believe God is in the process of returning the world to it's perfect state through JC. That's the best I can do to try to answer your qualms about being created imperfectly and then judged for those imperfections.
What don't you understand about omniscience? Do you believe your god knows all? Is he omnipotent? Omniscient? Omnipresent? Look, try to understand this, it doesn't matter how the world supposedly started. It doesn't matter what Adam or Eve did. If you believe that god created the world and Adam and Eve AND god is omniscient, then he KNEW what his own creation would do before they even did. Which means he knew, before he created Adam, before he sent his rules, before any of it, that his creation would "sin", that we would fall short of the rules. Therefore, the only purpose to set unreachable requirements on his creation which he knows cannot meet them, is to elicit worship. And, being one that only seems to want that worship, decides to punish those that don't worship him. This is a fear tactic. Not a love tactic. This would be akin to me telling my 5y/o that he is to do 50 push-ups in proper military style (knowing full-well he can't) and telling him if he doesn't I will punish him by putting him in his time out spot for the whole day UNLESS he gets on his knees and tells me how much he loves me and how great I am and how beautiful I am and so on and so forth.
