The relationship between owners and tenants is usually tense a best. Most of us would rather be owners than renters. It makes sense. Renters pay out rent, while owners collect rent. Owners control the property while tenants are under another's control.
Control is the name of the game.
We do not like to be at another's mercy, even when the other is God Himself. When you stop and think about it, we are tenants, not owners. Everything we have is on loan from God. We sometimes imagine that we are owners. It's our church and we can do as we please in it.