- God loves us personally and desires for us to love Him back.
- God is our Father and Jesus Christ is our Brother.
- God desires for us to apply this family relationship to His other children on earth, and treat them as brothers and sisters, or as an ideal Father would like to see us treat each other.
- Love is the primary reality, or force, tying all beings together.
The first and third were given by Christ as the most important commandments, from which all others derive. The second was established clearly in the Gospel, and the fourth I believe is clearly derived from the others. Our relationships to one and other, our family relationships, our relationships to our children are how our relationship to God is (and not just a reflection, though our relationship to God is or can be far more perfect).
God created us to live primarily as families to show and teach us our relationship to Him and His other creations/children.
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The more we love God, just as the more we love a good father, the more we desire to please Him, learn from Him, and trust Him.
I think, unfortunately, some descriptions of Him lead away from these primary truths, or are at least easy to misunderstand - we must certainly not mistake God for a bad tyrant, but we should really fear what can happen to us by doing evil - just as a child should properly fear running in front of a moving vehicle!
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