do we really think that the God of the scriptures is happy with us incessantly quoting verbatim passages from the biblical texts like robotic machines set aside for exclusive parrot-fashion like recitational function?
would this not expose God as a dictatorial despot not at all interested in humanity expressing themselves creatively and honestly or with any of the faculties he himself created in us?
what kind of leader would want such response? surely the pattern in the gospel texts of the life of Jesus the Christ reveals the opposite?
and did not Jesus himself say that the legalistic nature of the preceding Mosaic law was surpassed by the freedom and creativity of the vibrant indwelling spirit of the living God?
surely the fact that there is no record of Jesus ever sitting the apostles down to take down textual dictations of memes, quotations, systematic methodologies, legislation and liturgical processes is testament to something quite opposite to what we have evolved into in the ‘church’ of today?
should we not be fearing that we have become even more legalistic than the religious leaders of Christ’s day?… having twisted the message of grace and freedom into a deeper bondage to human power and coercion?
the faithful skeptic 