To try to get our minds around how our Gods view us, we have to start at the very beginning and realize how extremely personal our existence is to Them. We are each Their intentional choice. We are each Their unique creation. To say “we belong to God” doesn’t come anywhere close to describing how completely owned we are by our Creators. We aren’t just creatures who They stumbled across one day and decided to take over. We only exist because They brought us into being. We’re more than just Their possessions, we’re like extensions of Them. Just as a human writer can invent a character in her mind, write a story about him, then delete that file and cause that character to unexist, our Gods control every aspect of our beings. We are being literally sustained by Them every moment. They could uncreate us all with a single thought and we wouldn’t even be aware that we no longer were. That goes way beyond simply owning someone.

The more we understand the unique position that our Creators are in with us, the more rational Their extreme reaction to us becomes. Yahweh explodes with jealous fury as we soak in the glory for the things He has done. Well, of course He does—how obnoxious is it for creatures who can’t even sustain their own existence to act like they accomplished anything on their own? Jesus demands that we submit to Him as our God and Master. Well, yes, considering that Jesus is holding our molecules together, it’s more than a little obnoxious for us to downplay His supremacy over us. The Holy Spirit is outraged when we pray to beings other than our three glorious Creators. Well, yes, considering that They are the Ones holding all things together, it’s a bit much for us to be icing Them while we credit other creatures and figments of our imagination for taking care of us in life.