Christianity at its infancy, like all religions, was childlike, based on a protective deity. In many ways, early Christianity was a religion of fear and control. Because we had failed to be pleasing to God, Christianity thus became almost totally a religion of penitence, guilt and pleas to God for mercy. It was a system that did not allow us to grow up. We were children seeking to please the powerful “Father” or parent God. It is hard to grow up until we leave the “Father’s house.”
