[imardmd1]

You have a point there, but I find it hard to believe that humans who have been invited to come and follow Him in simple, childlike trust should ever be required to invent such a complex, ornate, confusing system of imaginative rites and allegories and sacrifices and garments and beads in order to make them acceptable and pleasing to the God Whom I find in my Bible.

Do you?

[Mark17]

I find it hard to believe that humans who have been invited to come and follow Him in simple, childlike trust should ever be required to invent such a complex, ornate, confusing system of imaginative rites and allegories and sacrifices and garments and beads in order to make them acceptable and pleasing to the God Whom I find in my Bible.

It truly IS a mystery. Even when I was a Catholic, I wondered where some of these peculiar doctrines came from, and why did it seem that things were SO complicated. Now, I know, of course, and I am no longer in bondage to false religion. 😇🙏