Some pretty much worship "the bible", "the church", various holy (sic) artifacts, various biblical people, even LUV.. some worship Love.. Many are into Christian Cargo Cultism(animism) of myriad types.. Christians seem to get obsessive.. Name a group.. some get obsessive, some don't.. even in the same group..
I have come to see Christianity as described in John ch 10.. with the sheep pens and Jesus calling them to come OUT.. The word church(Ekklesia) even means "called out ones".. My experience(with them) leads me see many christian groups as sheep, goat, vulture, lion, pig, platypus, ostrich, hyena, tape worm, wolf, even maggot pens.. and many more kinds of pens than that.. They all see themselves as best examples.. of something..
I guess we all see, what we see.. Some are harder (for me) to tolerate than others.. could be the same with them toward me.. Jesus never forbade sheep pens or any other kind of pen.. as far as I know.. He must have known this would happen.. Christians pretty much sort themselves into various groups and kinds of groups.. Could it be this is the way it is supposed to be?.. If so then God is a genius.. Creating humans to be a self sorting mechanism..
Whether jew or gentile, people sort themselves out.. Even atheists and agostics sort themselves out.. into category's.. We need to learn to tolerate each other, OR NOT.. Which ever choice you or I make there is a group for us some where.. Pure genius I would say.. AT some point what ever choice(s) we make we will have to live with.. maybe for eternity.... The flesh does not last forever..
Could be our spirits are being Graded..
1 Corinthians 12:12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
EXCELLENT POINTS.
THANKS.