This kind of stuff is why I do not attend church. I beleive in God just not man's church. How can any MAN pretend to know God's plans? Yet preachers and psuedo preachers everywhere swear that they do. God will come when he is good and ready
GOD
TELLS US, EXHORTS US, ORDERS US
TO STUDY TO SHOW OURSELVES APPROVED UNTO GOD . . . rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Child-like faith is sufficient--especially when led in prayer daily, ongoingly by Holy Spirit leading us into all truth.
Whether one rebells against ASSEMBLING OURSELVES TOGETHER for mutual support and exhortation
or one works to carve out a VIBRANT, OBEDIENT, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN A MONESTARY CELL somewhere,
God still expects to walk intimately with us. I suspect you are less intimate with God than you might be.
I agree that organized Christianity can be horrid and that a good church is very hard to find. But we can at least find a handful of believers to fellowship with, grow with, be iron sharpening iron with etc. Telling God we will NOT do things HIS way is not a great way to win His favor.
HMmmm...
Why do I have this nagging feeling there's more to it than that.....