The entire experience of veneration seems to have been lost within Protestant thinking.
Joh 8:39 “Our father is Abraham!” they declared. “No,” Jesus replied, “for if you were really the children of Abraham, you would follow his example.
The Jews venerated Abraham, so much that they said he was their father. When rebuked for this by Jesus they then said the God was their father, Jesus rebukes them again and identifies their real father if you want to read the rest of the story.
Joh_6:31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Joh_6:32 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now He offers you the true bread from heaven.
Moses was so venerated that tradition morphed the story to the point that it was Moses that gave them manna, and not God.
Do you see the problem of not having a direct intimate relationship with God?
Good point!