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I agree whole heartedly but who do you confess them to?

Directly to God in prayer.

And how do you enter into the place of worship where this can take place?

God is everywhere. I talk to Him wherever I am.

There is one way between God and man, The Way. There are many broken and humble buddahists and muslims, but they are broken before false gods. Any god approached, apart from Christ, is a false god. and not The God, Jehovah. He has turned His ears from those who reject His Son.

Yes, I know you believe this. I disagree. Just because you believe this does not make it true.

NCs tend to criticize Catholics for putting priests, Mary, or other saints in between them and Jesus. They say that there is no mediator except Jesus between God and man. Jews take this same logic one step further. We believe that we can approach God directly, that we need no mediator between God and us.

We believe that we can approach God directly, that we need no mediator between God and us.

What about the Aaronic priesthood? I thought God chose to use them as mediators between the nation Israel and Himself. After all, not just anybody could enter the Holy of Holies and go into the direct presence of God. Only the High-Priest could do that, and then he could only do that once a year.

-ksen

NCs tend to criticize Catholics for putting priests, Mary, or other saints in between them and Jesus. They say that there is no mediator except Jesus between God and man. Jews take this same logic one step further. We believe that we can approach God directly, that we need no mediator between God and us.

Not quite, angelo. It is the man Jesus who is the mediator between man and god. There is no other mediator.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
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Jesus also teaches us, all of us, to pray directly to God. No mediator required.

Matthew 6:9
Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
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In my confused, part Unitarian, part Bible Believing Christian, and part Jew, mind I find when I pray spontaneously, it is to God. I generally don't feel the need to pray to Jesus as the mediator. (I must qualify this because I have also prayed to Jesus).

Oh well, I don't deny the Trinity, I just don't contemplate it.

I fully expect the NC's and RC's will condemn my belief/unbelief equally.

We believe that we can approach God directly, that we need no mediator between God and us.

Hey! We agree again!