[cloudmountain]

1. Are your children your children because they worked to gain the status of child or because they were born into your family?
2.Do you disown your children every time they disobey you?
3. Do you make them do penance to gain your *mercy* and *grace*?
4. Do you adopt them back into your family when they *repent* and do penance, until the next time they disobey when they are out again?
5. When they come to you and say they’re sorry, do you say to them *Prove it. Do these chores and then I’ll let you back in.*?
5. What kind of parent is that?

1. The latter.

2. Lol, I'd better not. Anyone who's had a two-year-old KNOWS about disobedience...and it's just a precursor of what's to come.

3. The Quality Of Mercy - by William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.
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I cannot give grace to anyone; I can only pray to our good Lord for His grace.
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4. Not very nice parenting.

5. Ditto.

[metmom]

Jesus goes to great lengths to tell us that God is our Father.

How could mere mortals then be better parents that God?

Or, rather, if that’s an example of bad parenting, then why do Catholics tell us that God treats us like that?

When a person is born again, or born from above if they prefer that terminology, are they or are they not BORN into the family of God?

If they are, why would we expect God to treat us contrary to everything He tells us about Himself in Scripture?

Consider the Prodigal Son. What was the father’s response in that account?