Alex: In order to be more like God, in Whom simplicity and majesty coincide
Yes, good answer, but this is how the Church sees it, where child-like is another way of saying pure which would certainly be God-like.
Notice, I asked the Protestant crowd, rather then the Church crowd, for that interpretation knowing they don't see children as "pure" but as destined to hell from the moment of their conception.(Funny, Christ thought they were fit for heaven!)
Protestants, by necessity, see being chil-like as naïve, not pure; gullible. Their faith is based entirely on a book that reads like magic, and some even refer to God as their (big) "Daddy."
“Their faith is based entirely on a book that reads like magic, and some even refer to God as their (big) “Daddy.”
A profound lack of understanding of what you accuse but nothing new there. In evidence is your comment about what Christ said of children.
Ho Hum....what cannot be understood must be ridiculed.
So do Catholics, and (presumably) Eastern Orthodox, all on the authority of Christ.
What do you think the Pater Noster is, anyway?
Cheers!
Children are not particularly "pure." All men are fallen.
A child's unconditional trust is what we are to emulate. We come to Him "as children," aware of our complete dependency on Him.
That's not naive or gullible. That's knowing whom we believe, and that we are not God, but His creation.
Their faith is based entirely on a book
That book contains the truth of the prophets and the words of God. Do you criticize the Jews for that same reason?
Totally depraved, and all that. It was only brought up by the "crowd" because, see, you and I are too pedantic with our Greek dictionaries to catch their little frivolities with the Bible.