A Bear, A Trap, A Hunter and God

"Would you agree that the difference between us and God is greater than the difference between us and,say, a bear?"

"Okay then, imagine a bear in a trap and a hunter who, out of sympathy, wants to liberate him. He tries to win the bear's confidence, but he can't do it, so he has to shoot the bear with full of drugs. The bear, however, thinks this is an attack and that the hunter is trying to kill him. He doesn't realise that this is being done out of compassion."

"Then, in order to get the bear out of the trap, the hunter has to push him further into the trap to release the tension on the spring. If the bear were semiconscious at that point, he would be even more convinced that the hunter was his enemy who was out to cause him suffering and pain. But the bear would be wrong. He reaches this incorrect conclusion because he's not a human being."

"Now, how can anyone be certain that's not an analogy between us and God? I believe God does the same to us sometimes, and we can't comprehend why he does it anymore than the bear can understand the moltivations of the hunter. As the bear could have trusted the hunter, so we can trust God"