We've had this discussion before. What you are defending is gnosticism. You want Christ, but reject the Church. But "he cannot have God for his father who does not have the Church for his mother". If you trust Christ, you will show it by trusting those whom He has appointed to govern His Church through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Church is the ark of the New Covenant, through which we must be saved. Jesus said to the Apostles,
"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." (Luke 10:16)
If we reject the Apostles and those whom the Apostles appointed to succeed them, we are (unless we do so out of ignorance) rejecting Christ, and thus rejecting the Father.
-A8
Quix: Thank you so much for your encouragements and testimony, dear brother in Christ! We always know each other, I Cor 2:6-16.
kawaii: I Cor 14:36-38, quod erat demonstrandum
adiaireton8: I’ve been called worse. Thank you for sharing your views.
Politically generated and built-up organizations of man simply do not remotely qualify as my mother or anything else very critical.
. . . particularly compared to God; Son, Spirit . . . Saving, indwelling, leading, guiding, protecting, providing . . .
Yeah, fellowship with others of like precious faith is important and worthwhile.
But it’s soooooo far from God . . . to compare them as mother/father
is virtually blasphemous, imho.