Why do people apply human rules to the Creator

Why? Because it's the only set of rules we have to go by. It's the only toolkit we have and ostensibly it's a toolkit given to us by god.
Seems strange then that god appears to fall short in several areas given that he's being judged based on parameters he outlined for us...

I don't think there's good cause to try to apply human ideas about the Creator. We don't have to do that, as if we're guessing who he is. Why do people make such a mystery out of the Bible when God gave us the Bible so that we could know everything we are supposed to know about God, including who he is, where he came from, what he came for, why we need him etc. Why do people act like it's such a mystery, when he told us everything we need to know in order to get to heaven. He didn't leave us to guess, and yet people still have the craziest notion of who he is and other questions that they pretend they can never know, yet there they are...the answers are in God's Word. It's ridiculous.

[quote]We just have to accept certain things, good and tragic are part of life.[/quote]

Oh please! As if God left us wandering around in the dark with no way of knowing who he is. That's lazadaisical and there's no excuse for that when God gave us His Word. That's an insult to God.

I remember reading Ernest Becker's book "The Denial of Death" years ago. Becker a cultural anthropologists by trade proposes the drive of religion (in the absence of evidence) and all that comes with it is often driven by man's fear of death. I think that is the short answer to your question. Belief in God is a denial of death. Many of them call it an afterlife, a reincarnation or other idea.

Perfection as as construct is a subjective measure. Because the meaning varies from culture to culture and even person to person to say "life is perfect" as an individual construct has validity but as an idea that encompasses all of humanity or even much of it maybe not so much.

When you say [b]understand such a being[/b].---we can recede that idea by how we understand most tangible (an entity such as God for example) things put before us. We do that by preponderance of the evidence. Even if it is introspection it is still introspection of evidence presented.

In that idea the construct of God, for which there is no evidence is a meaningless idea until such time evidence comes forth to support the existence of said entity.

Which gets us back to your question---applying human rules to a creator. We as a society apply human rules to everything that we culturally agree on as existence. Currently most humans, especially in America as a proposal for what God is and apply their human rules towards that construct even in the absence of any evidence.

If we can't understand the creator's motives or intentions, doesn't that completely negate religion? You can't claim on one hand that the creator wants you to worship him in a specific way, then turn around and say "oh, but we can't possibly hold such an advanced being to human standards" when asked why he allows evil and suffering. The same could apply to your understanding of salvation; maybe you have no idea what the creator wants. The Bible, Jesus, the crucifixion, the resurrection, etc. are impossible for anyone to understand and even attempting to is hopeless.

I see it as humanity's way of putting Divine Source/God/Creator in a box... to try to understand it within our human limits and be comfortable with it within those limits.

But you can't put Creator in a box, can you? It's impossible.

I personally don't know what purpose making the human race perfect would serve. It would remove freedom and choice. I don't worry about it though to be honest.

because humanity is Vain enough to feel they are not only the Top species on this Ball of rock and water, BUTT are also vain enough that they feel all things omnipotent are like them

And this is how wars begin!!

Because we made him up.

Religion, in essence, is not about God. It is about personal security and protection from danger. The greatest source of danger to oneself is not from natural disasters but from other people. The invocation of a higher power greater than that of humans serves to establish moral order in society.

This is what I think. What do you think?

If that's the case, then there's no point in prayer or any kind of relationship with said creator.

It's pretty simple, Axe. Either God allows bad things to happen because he wants them to, in which case he's not a good being, or he's powerless to stop them from happening.

Here, this chart explains it all:

Or perhaps this image will be simpler to grasp:
Comment edited because of my fat fingers, lol.

The same people who say humans created God go on to hold God to contemporary human values. Affirming the consequent at work here

Let us be honest, we only adhere to "man made rules"