On Tue, 30 May 2017 13:03:27 -0400 Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
if the point of the whole thing is to bring you closer to God, why put structure and organization and the inevitable middlemen that such things bring with them, in between you and Him...? It simply doesn't make sense to me that, in order to speak to God, you have to go through something to the effect of a human bucket-brigade -- which sounds like an open opportunity for things to go like a game of Telephone, amongst the other disadvantages.
I don't see any inevitable middlemen, at least not in christianity. Sure, there are priests and pastors and theologians and whatnot but they are not intermediaries. The best they can be is a help. They are people with whom I can discuss my thoughts and my doubts but they never define my thoughts and they never define my relationship with God. My relationship with God is owned by me and God alone.
Structure and organization is necessary for us christians in order to be able to coexist, just as it is for the rest of humanity. Without it there would be chaos!
The most important thing is that we seek intimacy with God, a relationship where we hold nothing back, because that's what life really is all about.
/fuumind