[Vision2020] Principles of communion

[Joan Opyr]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:

> I'm on your side of this debate, Joan. I don't think that you have to 
> go to church in order to be a good Christian!
> --
> Joe Campbell

Hi Joe:

Having given this some thought, I'm on my side, too.  Ha!

Here's a question: if, as the Princess argues, you can only properly 
commune with God by attending church, then what was Moses doing on 
Mount Sinai?  Where was his congregation?  Weren't they down below, 
making golden calves and such?  As I recall, when Moses came down the 
mountain, fresh from his solitary chat with God, he had to kick some 
serious graven image-worshipping butt.

Further, did God ever manifest himself to Jesus or any of the Old 
Testament prophets in front of a congregation or any kind of audience?  
Did the apostles witness Jesus and God in actual communion with one 
another?  When God set fire to Paul's donkey, Paul was on the road to 
Damascus.  Was anyone (apart from the donkey) with him?  Doesn't the 
Biblical God of both the OT and the NT generally tend to appear to the 
individual when he or she is alone, isolated, or in some remote and 
hard to access location?  And hasn't that practice carried on through 
the later Christian mystics like Julian of Norwich?

FYI, it takes three hours to climb to the peak of Mount Sinai.  I 
looked it up.  (Thank you, Google.)

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

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