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I have gone to significant lengths to demonstrate that I do

NOT SUPPORT FLIPPANT ANYTHING WITH ALMIGHTY GOD.

. . . I DO NOT SUPPORT ANYTHING IMPUDENT BEFORE OR REGARDING OR WITH YHWH/ ALMIGHTY GOD. I would have thought that my English was quite clear on that point to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear.

I find your accusation off the wall; inaccurate; mystifyingly contrary and wholesale false.

Trying to squeeze my perspective into inaccurate contortions will not work, before ALMIGHTY GOD any more than it works to try and squeeze HIS WORD into inaccurate contortions.

I realize that it seems to be extremely difficult to hold two or more . . . SEEMINGLY contradictory . . . constructs in one’s consciousness for more than a few microseconds . . .

1. That one can be INTENSELY INTIMATE WITH YHWH AT THE SAME TIME ONE IS BEING
2. INTENSELY REVERENT, AWED, SUBMISSIVE,

The only conclusion I can come to about that with the available evidence from my 62 years is that . . .

Those of us with REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER in our first years of life find it extremely difficult to impossible to tune in on and TRUST THE SCRIPTURES

and to tune in on and TRUST ALMIGHTY GOD

WHEN HE

speaks of INTIMACY WITH HIMSELF. It just does not compute.

Therefore, that leaves only the TERMINALLY AWED-TO-THE-MAX, FEARFUL, VIRTUALLY COMPULSIVELY CRINGING ATTITUDE AND PERSPECTIVE TOWARD ALMIGHTY GOD AND HIS LIGHTENING BOLTS.

That’s not the kind of relationship the Jesus I know died to RESTORE with THE FATHER/ DADDY/ PAPA/ ALMIGHTY GOD.

FATHER GOD GOES TO GREAT LENGTHS THROUGHOUT HIS SCRIPTURES documenting a wholesale DIFFERENT CHARACTER on HIS part regarding HIS relationship with THOSE WHO truly SEEK AND LOVE HIM . . .

FAR DIFFERENT from the pagans who live in terror of their gods, sacrifice children to them; cut themselves for their gods; etc. etc. etc.

YES, there ARE TIMES when the most fitting perspective is to SEE HIM HIGH AND LIFTED UP. AWESOME AS ON MT SINAI. EVEN FIERCELY & AWESOMELY ANGRY AS AT MT SINAI.

YET, THERE ARE FAR MORE SCRIPTURES DOCUMENTING ALMIGHTY GOD’S/ DADDY’S/ PAPA’S/ FATHER’S TENDER HEARTED COMPASSIONS, TENDER HEARTED LOVE; TENDER HEARTED HOLDING US IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND; WRITING US ON HIS HAND; BEING THE APPLE OF HIS EYE ETC. ETC. ETC.

For any perspective to ignore more than 70-95% of the Biblical picture and to claim that the other 05-30% is the TOTAL picture is nonsense . . . perhaps even close to blind or disingenuous.

I’ll continue to choose the perspective of THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF SCRIPTURE.

THE LOVE OF GOD in the whole of Scripture is THE MOST PROFOUND aspect of ALMIGHTY GOD’S CHARACTER and the most important aspect HE HAS TAKEN THE MOST PAINS TO DEMONSTRATE.

Ignoring that and pretending otherwise is unmitigated insult to Him, to His Word and to the nature of the relationship He desires with each of us. IT IS FAR FROM REVERENTIAL. If anything in this thread is blasphemous, that perspective comes closest when compared to the whole counsel of Scripture.

I'm advocating the whole counsel of the scripture, including the counsel of Isaiah and John and Paul in there approach toward God. They saw a critical difference between intimacy and irreverance, just as there's a difference between "Father" and daddy. Sorry to offend, but I do not want you or anyone to be caught up in modernist thinking toward Him. The term "daddy" results from a hippy era notion that we can bring God down to man's level and treat Him as a buddy. If that was not your intent, again, I apologize.

The point it, He calls us children, but until we understand who He is and how truly different He is from us ("holy" means separate), we can't truly appreciate verses like I Jn 3:1 (perhaps my favorite in the Bible). Our relationship toward God is reflected in our character, our works and our speech. Something to think about: http://www.embryhills.com/resources/audio-sermons/?sermon_id=546 .

May God bless your search for truth.

I realize that it seems to be extremely difficult to hold two or more . . . SEEMINGLY contradictory . . . constructs in one’s consciousness for more than a few microseconds . . .

1. That one can be INTENSELY INTIMATE WITH YHWH AT THE SAME TIME ONE IS BEING
2. INTENSELY REVERENT, AWED, SUBMISSIVE,

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Very true. I am reminded of a 3 year old son. He can sit and watch his father work with awe and reverence, being submissive to his father’s instructions to “be good”.

He can also put up his arms and cry “hold me”.

What does a father who loves his son more than anything do? He picks up the boy and holds him.

Excellent post. I have experienced His tenderness and there is nothing that compares. - this needs repeating -

YET, THERE ARE FAR MORE SCRIPTURES DOCUMENTING ALMIGHTY GOD’S/ DADDY’S/ PAPA’S/ FATHER’S TENDER HEARTED COMPASSIONS, TENDER HEARTED LOVE; TENDER HEARTED HOLDING US IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND; WRITING US ON HIS HAND; BEING THE APPLE OF HIS EYE ETC. ETC. ETC.

THE LOVE OF GOD in the whole of Scripture is THE MOST PROFOUND aspect of ALMIGHTY GOD’S CHARACTER and the most important aspect HE HAS TAKEN THE MOST PAINS TO DEMONSTRATE.