Church teachings not only are the product of long tradition and many mistakes of the past, they also are contradictory and confusing. Breaking out of the spiritual bondage of traditional religion is consistent with the actions and teachings of Jesus in the Gospels. Churches differ and battle each other over what propositions are true and necessary. Dozens of different versions of the Bible compete for acceptance. Doctrines and propositions about God and Jesus are a retreat into the past, often the murky dim past.
Personal experience is now.
The Spirit of Jesus within is relevant, instructive and liberating. Jesus began and ended in radical actions of self-acceptance. Accepting Jesus is meaningless unless you know and accept who you are as a human being in the image of God. Churches constantly demand that people should deny and reject their own true self and accept teachings and behavior that deny their humanity and exhaust their energies trying to play god in an unhealthy judgmental legalistic lifestyle. There must be a better way.