Oh, but of course! That one small phrase covers an infinity of beauty, wisdom, and power! The Almighty is sufficient unto Himself, both in His demands for perfection, and in His complete fulfillment of His own requirements. His power is total and so is His giving. Giving is the nature He constructs in us, so that we become like Him and part of Him: totally His. He cannot give less than all of Himself, and He wants this for us too. It's an all or nothing scenario.
If we defy His ordained order, attempt to short circuit His plan, we end up with this baseness called religion. Religion is about our own effort (on our own behalf). The need to worship is there, but in a deteriorated, ineffectual state of only what we have to offer. The gods of religion, the overseers of futility, can only exhibit our very own feet of clay, the weakness of an evil nature. They are poisonous shadows of the all sufficiency of God.
Christ is the only One who offers us the transcendent, the Superreality. Only He can bridge the gap, being both man and superscedant of the flesh, God Himself. No religion, coming from man, can offer what He gives. Religion is only a fraudulent counterfeit of The Reality. Religion can only validate the truth and verify the claims of the Savior it so uselessly attempts to imitate!
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