He obeyed his parants untill he was of age ... He did sin you see.
He DID sin?
Jesus sinned - seriously??
And your just dedending a dead building..
So i will leave you to your dead building .
No I'm not.
For what it's worth, I am not that interested in buildings. The Great Commission is "GO into the world", not "try and persuade the world to come to our church." I wouldn't care if God's people met in a hired building, a school or a tent.
I am not a passionate defender of buildings. What I DO object to is the implication that they are ALL worthless, corrupted or "under the spell of witchcraft", as someone else said.
Yes, people can go to church for the wrong reasons, make an idol of a building and become attached to liturgy and ritual. That is just as true if Christians meet in a school, have no set liturgy and pride themselves on "free worship", which in practice means singing the same song 6 times."
But that doesn't mean that this is the norm; that ALL liturgy is dead, buildings are corrupt and unbiblical and nothing good will ever go on there.
Many, many people have sought, found and worshiped God in a church building.
For some, the building DOES represent some sign of hope, comfort and assurance of God's presence. You might think that should not be so, but it is. People have to learn gradually.
Abraham and co built altars to God and as memorials of what he had done for them.
The Israelites first had a tabernacle, that they carried everywhere. It contained the ark of the covenant; a sign of God's presence. When the ark was captured by non Jews; bad things happened.
Years later, Solomon built a temple, a sign of God's presence in his Holy City, and the ark of the covenant is not mentioned again. (I think it was kept in the Holy of Holies, but it doesn't feature as much as it did in Exodus.)
Then Jesus came and taught that God was with us and would be in us; the temple was destroyed, the Spirit came at Pentecost and the early church taught that we are temples of the Spirit.
People who carried the tabernacle around would not have dreamt that God could live IN them; the truth was revealed gradually.
Some people may still be at the stage in their christian journey where a building IS important to them - I used to be like that. I did not want to leave my first church as a young adult because it represented security, happy memories, acceptance and so on. I don't feel that way now; I've grown. But some people haven't and may never. Or, some people may know that a building isn't important, but their continued attendance at a church speaks of loyalty, commitment and continuity. Again, whether or not we think it SHOULD be the case is irrelevant; it IS.