Comment: The ancient, pre-biblical Near Eastern theological/anthropological concept, that a god is a being whom it is right for a human being to obey, plainly has not ended at all well.

As for "loving" God, it requires a good bit of strain on modern concepts of love to make sense of the biblical references. How can human beings actually be commanded to love anyone?, as the Shma' in Deuteronomy 6. In fact, like a lot of biblical poetry, that language is based on Assyrian royal decrees: the perfect loyalty of the subject is demanded, or else the subject is in a lot of trouble; and that relationship is what goes by the name "love."