I glanced at another establishment Christianity post...

Oh, boy, I try to get out of this muck and then I read some dumb Roman Catholic apologist, or some shallow churchian Protestant and I'm pulled back into reacting to their idiocy and death. But I don't have to be. I have to remember there are levels of Christianity. Yes, the churchians teach against this, but God's own know it by experience. I can't expect mainstream establishment Christianity to be anything other than what it is. That is where they are at currently. The Holy Spirit has given me to be where I am at. When I write of the level I am at of course the churchians mock and attack and run and so on. It's death to them. Death to all they hold dear. Just as their level is death to me. A different kind of death; the death of falling back as opposed to the death that leads to new birth.

How do we differ? I value and engage the Word of God directly. The pure and whole Word of God that God has preserved for me. The churchians mock that, read secondary literature, and accept watered-down 'bibles' given them by scholars they deem to be final authority. I fear God only and not man. The churchians fear and revere man while giving lip service to fearing god, though they don't even know what fearing God means. I know the faith is not about 'being good' but about making contact. The churchians have no concept of making contact, with God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit or pretty much anything, and they consider the faith to be about their family and being good.

So be it. People have to get born and taken care of. This is not the faith though. The faith is something much more hardcore. It's not for everybody...