[AnotherUnixGeek]

Your beef is not with me FRiend.

True.

Your beef is with your Creator and His choice of words.

False. I just happen to disagree strongly those of God's self-appointed spokesmen who want to portray God as the ultimate torturer.

I have no fear of that ‘opposite number’.

That isn't surprising, considering that you already live in such terror of God.

Your refusal to acknowledge that your Creator should be regarded with ‘fear and trembling’ sounds like a rather healthy dose of self-pride. “For what reason should I fear God? He is nothing to fear at all!!”

It's more than a little sad that the emotion you insist on associating with God is fear. He deserves better, and so do you.

[RoadGumby]

I insist on nothing. It is as it is. I read the Word and it says what it says, it says what God would have us know of Him. I did not get to choose Gods words for Him. But I can read what He told Moses and others to write and try to understand.

Fear, as was described earlier is not the terror of which you speak and it is disingenuous for you to use that word.

Go on believing in you warm and cuddly, no consequences version of God. I hope it serves you well.