Christianity minus priestcraft is 'unmediated' says the Reformed professor

The test of a Christian is spiritual warfare. Which includes going against your own inner Old Man.

What passes for Christianity in the churches and seminaries, liberal or not, is man-fearing death and the blind leading the blind.

If you're not in battle with the world, the flesh (your Old Man), and the devil you are not regenerated by the Word and the Spirit.

Orthodox doctrine is armor*. Orthodox doctrine minus the Spirit is vanity (emptiness)**.

Christianity is not 'unmediated' when you have the Spirit in you. Without the Spirit you can receive 'sacraments' from a million 'Ph.Ds' - whatever your current *ideal* is - and you will remain a dead soul.

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*"When the heart is cast indeed into the mould of the doctrine that the mind embraceth - when the evidence and necessity of the truth abides in us - when not the sense of the words only is in our heads, but the sense of the thing abides in our hearts - when we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for - then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men."
- John Owen

**"As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace; so there is not scarce anything more despised or scorned by many in the world than that any should profess that there hath been such a work of God upon themselves, or on any occasion declare aught of the way and manner whereby it was wrought... yea, the enmity of Cain against Abel was but a branch of this proud and perverse inclination."
- John Owen, A Discourse Concerning The Holy Spirit