As I quoted, Jesus Himself says: "Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.".
Children couldn't possibly "understand" how much greater God is than the adults.
In humility they can accept what they are told by their parents, even if they don't understand everything. As we become adults we should accept what God teaches us with the same humility.
Why should we unconditionally trust him? Why gives us reason only so we can blindly accept things?
We should unconditionally trust Him because He is truth and He loves His elect. We trust those we know love us. We were created to give glory to Him and that involves trusting in Him. ----- A humble, childlike faith is not blind. For those things that are understandable, logic and reason support them. For other things it is reasonable to trust the one true God who loves us.
I am not sure kids unconditionally trust their parents. Abused children don't trust their parents; they are scared to death of them.
Well sure, but to even make the loosest comparison we must assume loving and good parents.
Maybe the Jewish children in the 1st century Palestine were "humbled" by their parents. That doesn't mean children in general are "humble" by nature. If left to their "sin nature" they will boast; they will seek attention; they are self-absorbed (ego centric), cruel and inconsiderate or very much capable of all of it.
In short, left to their "sin nature," instead of being good for heaven they are guilty and only good for hell according to so many Protestant theologians. Apparenly Jesus did not buy into the Augustinian and Protestant idea of the "original sin."
In humility they can accept what they are told by their parents, even if they don't understand everything. As we become adults we should accept what God teaches us with the same humility./
They don't accept Santa Claus in humility but because they don't know anything, and adults can (and do) dupe them. This is like saying the fish "humbly" take our bait and get hooked. :)
As we become adults we should accept what God teaches us with the same humility
Why?
We should unconditionally trust Him because He is truth and He loves His elect.
Unquestioning acceptance is a matter of blind belief, FK.
Well sure, but to even make the loosest comparison we must assume loving and good parents.
That is our cultural bias.