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If you're the strongest party in a relationship, you don't have to limit your options. You can set the rules how you want. We see this in sports all the time -- the sports teams get the cities to give them hundreds of millions of dollars to build stadiums for teams owned by billionaires, because the team has the power to threaten to leave. They're in the stronger position.
God is clearly in the strongest position of all. God created us, and God can un-create us, starting all over with a new set of people that would probably grumble less. But God chooses to continue to make covenants, because it's the language of relationship. God chooses to promise not to destroy the world again, because then we don't live in constant fear of a consuming fire devouring us all. God chooses to limit God's ability to punish us for the sake of love. That's how much God loves you! God voluntarily set aside that use of power so that we could learn of God's love!
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