The Importance of Faith in Mechanisms for Relationship

There's this misunderstanding outside the church and inside the church about what's involved. They understood that God had provided a mechanism for relationship. For us we know of a different mechanism. We don't have to worry about the temple as the geographical presence of God. And so both we and Israelites have faith in the mechanisms that God provided for relationship. It's just God revealed certain mechanisms to them, and God has revealed other mechanisms to us.