The second section of the Ten Commandments that focus on the way we ought to relate to your neighbor begins with "Honor your father and your mother." Ideally, our parents are the first parents we meet in this world. They are also the first collective image of the wholeness of God. In them we ought to see the masculine and feminine, the maternal and paternal aspects of God. Our parents influence how we relate to God, if at all. God places great weight on the role that parents play and we ought to honor them. Exodus 20:12.