Yes, a barefoot mystic...

Boo. I write things like the previous post because I'm not a part of the church Christian level, but of the WAY. I.e. because I'm more what the church Christian level calls 'mystic' or some similar worse name they can come up with. But mystic just means, for someone who knows orthodox doctrine and is a Bible-believing Christian, practical level doing of the faith.

When I write for other audiences I don't tell people they are dung. I don't think. Maybe once or twice. Maybe certain types need to hear that. But generally I don't.

The churches today are not real. They are 'family time' and not serious environments for real Christians. A lone stranger, pilgrim, i.e. Christian, shows up and he's an outsider. Christians are outsiders in todays 'Christian churches.'

Calvin didn't leave the Roman Catholic Church until he could see the difference between the invisible essence of the Church and the outward visible buildings and so on. See Schaff, don't ask for a page number. In other words he didn't lose his respect for the RC 'Church' until he was able to see what real Church is, and it's not a building and group of people demanding conformity to their shallow, worldly demands, and in the case of Roman Catholicism their anti-Christian demands.

The fact is I was drawn to Calvinism because it is truth, and the truth is more than intellectual; the truth effects internal reorientation from being man-centered to being God-centered, and that happened to me prior to learning Federal Theology, but Federal Theology was what it was. This real element of Federal Theology is lost on academic Reformed Christianity and the people living under their 'fear of man' demanding influence. Calvin was a barefoot mystic compared to academic Reformed Christianity.