Why Judgment

 

Acts 2: Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins

 

Acts 3: Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

 

Romans 8: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

 

Hebrews 9: And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

 

Our sins have been forgiven, blotted out; there is no condemnation for those who are in Jesus; what will we be giving an account of or for? In the New Testament there is no mention of preachers being hired to do what we hire them to do.

 

Christians do not need a preacher to be saved

 

Temples were commonplace among the Gentiles but rare among the Jews nonexistent except for the temple in Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.

 

In the New Testament there is no mention that the Christians ever built or bought or owned a material building of any kind that might be called a temple, cathedral or sanctuary for the Lord.  So much of 20th-century American Christianity is in some way associated with a material building, which is often an elaborately beautiful and costly facility, the highest priority and biggest item in the church’s budget, and the focal point of virtually all of the church’s activity. The average Christian’s practice of his religious faith is within the church building.

 

Christians do not need a building.

 

While it may be nice Christians do not need a congregation to be Christian i.e. Ethiopian Eunuch.

 

On the other hand the preacher needs a flock of contributors to provide his salary and a building in which he can preach.  

 

Considering the historical record much of what has been taught as Christianity was intended to maintain the status quo where the clergy is the only hope of the laity to contact God and I suspect translator has a similar motivation.