Really? And you get that from...biblical verses such as "Our Father, Wo art in Heaven...?"
The more I read Protestant expalantions the more I realize you consider Christ somehow a "different" God from the Father.
As to the two pillars holding up the Hebrew concept of the cosmos, I believe you are referring to Jacinth and Boaz, who's true meaning is doubtless symbolic, and not masonary structures
They just didn't know any more that the earth was a globe than they knew that bats were not fowl.
Yes. To approach the Father, one must be holy, and no one is in their own right. Christ, as our intercessor and great high priest, fulfills that need for us. Do you not believe that?
We also humbly pray that our prayers be answered only if God wills it. We don't control God or His plans, nor do we presume to.