DU religion survey

[Cosmic Kitten]

116. I concure regarding the experiential nature of spiritual gnosis.

Once spiritual gnosis is attained it is no longer "faith".
It's knowledge.

As to christianity, why does any individual need to "pick and choose"
isn't that the job and purpose of the church?
At it's core, being a christian means to live like Christ, to be christ like.
Simply living according to the 10 commandments would suffice as the "rules".

Regarding "schisms" wouldn't it suffice to just pick one path
and follow it unquestioningly? Again, the issues is the a la carte
picking and choosing. If practicing faith is so arbitrary does it have
any meaning or authority to provide gnosis?
Seems more like mental jewelry than a spiritual path...
why bother with the church if we can pick and choose?

And as to recons?
That seems like a curious endeavor.
Aside from the anthropological understanding, of what need
is there to revisit beliefs which no longer serve contemporary life?
It seems more like a boutique religious belief based on how it makes
us feel about ourselves rather than the instruction towards experiential gnosis.
There are plenty of practices alive today which lead to gnosis without
having to reconstruct a belief system that was culturally and historically specific.