Don't know if you intended on responses or not, but I'll have a shot.
I'm just getting my feet wet with all the new information in YY, but I'm pretty sure I've had a relationship (or at least the beginnings of one) with Yahuweh for most of my life. He's always felt close when I've needed Him and He's gotten me through some very difficult times. I've often thought similar things, especially after finding this site. I'll throw out my thoughts to see what others think (probably going to come off pretty disorganized, so I apologize in advance).
I often think about our relationships to Yahuweh through the context of His metaphors (mostly marriage and children; familial relationships, in other words). He gave us these metaphors for what He expects in our relationship with Him because He knew that however screwed up we could get, we have a pretty good concept (at least most of us) of what a properly functioning family is supposed to look like.
For example, place Yahuweh as a father (I know, difficult to imagine, but bear with me :). He adores us and loves to watch us grow and learn. He wants nothing more than to pick us up in His arms and give us a big squeeze. There are lots of things I could do for my kids that would get it done (homework, housework, etc), but they wouldn't learn anything in the process and they wouldn't develop into decently functioning adults (plenty of the other kind around anyways).
My 6 year old adopted daughter has a very sad past. Without going into the full story, she had severe brain trauma, was in 8 foster homes by the age of 11 months (one of which was abusive and neglected to treat a broken arm for almost 2 months), was thought to never walk, talk, potty train, or do any other of the normal things kids do. Today, she is in Kindergarten. She's walking and talking (and potty trained), she's ice skating, swimming, can write her name, and is slowly starting to learn how to read. If we just accepted her medical condition (and emotional problems from the early abuse and neglect), she wouldn't be doing any of these things. The struggles she has has forced her to succeed where everyone else thought she would fail.
I think that besides the whole "free will" thing (and that's a big thing, don't get me wrong), Yahuweh wants our journey to be difficult, probably the hardest thing we'll ever do. It is through that struggle that we come closer to Him than we ever could if this stuff was just spoon-fed to us.
He knew all of that was going to happen and I'm sure it broke His heart. And continues to break His heart, since He's always experiencing the past, present, and future. He would have loved to come down, scoop us all up, and hold us close to Him. But, there are many that would squirm as hard as they could to get out of that hug (I know what that's like; there's plenty of kids in foster care that can't stand to be touched). They don't know Him and don't trust Him.
He could have done something to prevent all of that, but then free-will would have been a farce (whether we knew it or not) and all His work for true, unforced, uncorrupted love would have been a farce as well. He had to restrain Himself until He knew all was lost (and that is coming, in about 16 years, if I'm not mistaken); until He knew that everyone left would either run the other way when He came, or come running up to Him like a child.
I've never been of the mind to think that Yahuweh requires doctrinal purity. No two of us will ever agree on everything. My brother and I have two similar, but probably different opinions of our earthly father. There is one of him, and one single reality of his being, but we each see different aspects of it. Same goes with Yahuweh. I'm sure He wants each of us to know Him entirely, but in our fallen state, I doubt that's possible. I don't like thinking of it as a threshold of understanding that we need to cross to "earn" salvation. He asks us to trust and rely upon Him and nothing else. The best I can do right now, since I don't have all the answers, is to pray that He guides me where He will and that in guiding me, He leads me closer to Him. Since finding this site, I've never felt closer to my Father, so I know I'm in the right place.
So much to learn and so little time to do it.
As for our differences, time will tell. We're all from different backgrounds, in different locations, and at different points along His way. It's almost certain we'll have differences of opinions about His Word. I'm sure the disciples had differences of opinions at times and they walked and talked directly with Yahushua. Some of us may be standing directly on the road, some just to the side, and others barely within sight of it, but we're all following His path. That path will surely narrow the closer we get to Him, and some of us may lose sight of the way altogether (we'll have to call out to eachother to find our way back). We've (or rather I've, since most of you have been here for much longer than I) just begun to scratch the surface of what Yahuweh has revealed.
Since it seems to be the most contentious thing around lately: the issue with Paul is near and dear to many of us. I understand Yada's thinking in being so callous in tossing him aside; he's found Paul to be unreliable. He's turning away from a man that is openly contradicting Yahuweh and, therefore, turning back to God. It still doesn't make it any more comfortable for the rest of us, as detached from religion as we like to think, to so quickly go to the same point. Personally, until I have had the time to sort through all of YY and TOM, I've got to force myself to withhold judgement on Paul; the little I've read and listened to sounds pretty damning, but I want to see all of it and try to dig up any possible defense. Debate can be frustrating at times, but it also forces us (if we maintain an open mind) to sort out the truth, whatever it may be.
Hopefully that rambling helps someone. All I got for now. Good night and Yah bless!
Matt