Systems of religion are the most devious traps of this worldly realm.  Set forth by our misunderstanding of the original design.  We were placed here to walk in perfect fellowship with Papa.  Unrestricted access to and unfettered conversation with the Creator of every thing.  We were designed to be His children and fashioned after His kind.  No other beings were formed in His image and likeness to exercise His dominion over the creation.  

Religion came in when we fell from grace, when we believed the lie that we were not all Papa made us to be.  In accepting the premise that we were not like him because of the serpent’s lies we stepped out of intimate communion and into the system of religion.The trap of endless striving and ceaseless chasing after becoming clean once again had us in its grip.  

We were so stuck in this paradigm that it took Papa sending His only Son here to destroy the whole stinking system.  To reconcile us back to Himself by abolishing religious duties and obligations on the cross.  It’s wasn’t so much that He had to fulfill the requirements of the system as it was required that He remove the perceived power of the system from its throne.   

It was a system of our own making that sought blood and death to right all wrongs.  It was not a system of justice but a perpetual engine of suffering and shame which had to be destroyed.   That was accomplished on the cross with words “It is finished” and sealed forever when the stone rolled away to reveal the empty tomb.  Religion was shown to be the fraudulent path to heaven that it always was.  There is no path of good works and asceticism which will make us right with some supposed angry deity.   Papa God, YHVH, who is the very definition of love has sought us out and drawn us to Himself in the person of Yeshua who sealed the deal and shut the system down forever.