Non-sequitur reasoning. No one denies that he removed the wall of participation. That doesn’t mean we cna now stand impudently before YHWH. Even putting it in all caps and bold blue font does not change the meaning of ABBA, nor does it support your doctrine of flippant familiarity with a holy God.
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 curious . . .
Approximately how many minutes a week do you spend
literally flat on your face, prostrate on the floor, face to the floor praying to YHWH—in public and in private, combined?
Only the LORD can look beyond a word and see the truth. When I cry out to my Daddy (Abba) in Heaven, I am at a place of ultimate humbleness before His throne...recognizing His power and might, and His help in my time of need. Other times when I cry out to my Daddy, it is with great joy for who He is...the fullness of His character.
It is the intimacy of the relationship that is expressed as we call on the names of the LORD. When Moses asked what was His name, He answered I AM. He IS everything...