Jesus had no such prejudices and, chancing to sit by a well, be spoke to a Samaritan woman. She soon discovered that Jesus was no ordinary Jew, and when she asked him which of the two sacred sites he thought more important, the one on Mount Gerizim near where they were talking or the one in Jerusalem, Jesus gave an answer which she must have found surprising. The Roman armies swept through the land of Israel in AD 70 and destroyed its religious places. Those Jews who survived the wars and who did not escape, were taken into captivity and sold as slaves. So if their religion was to depend upon temples and holy sites, they would have had to give it up.
Some people today claim to have, or be led by, the spirit.
But when you talk to them, you soon realise that they do not understand what the Bible teaches. Perhaps they believe in going to heaven at death, when the Bible clearly teaches that the true Christian hope is the establishment of God s Kingdom on earth. People who claim to have the spirit, and are lacking in Bible truth, must be wrong. Large or richly decorated churches mean nothing to God. So why should these impress true worshippers.