I really belive in courtship. With that you will at lease get to know somethings about who you want to spend your life with. The pastors are there to guide and not to impose.
Pope John Paul was shot and gravely wounded on May 13, 1981. If your assertion is right he supposed to be man of GOD, the representative of GOD on earth. So why was he shot? Did he abuse God's ways or judge other human beings. Thousands of pastors that have accidentally died or killed did they commit more sins than you and I that are still alive and healthy today. You see, you have the belief that if one doesn't believe in GOD something terrible will happen to the person. You are completely wrong and I a not surprised that you have that views because that is what the so called Pastors are using to keep you in their midst.
GOD loves you. GOD created you to be free to serve him or not. GOD doesn't want anything bad to happen to his creatures and do you really think GOD is happy when you are unhappy? What kind of father will be happy when illness or something bad happens to his children despite all the stress they have given him over the years? GOD is pure and his ways are pure. He wouldn't like to stain his hands by following the ways of the devil.
GOD is not religious. Jesus Christ did not come to the earth with religion. He never founded Christianity and never promoted it through out his life on earth. Christianity was founded by men and everything it stands for is political. You are free to approach GOD direct without a third party. When you buy goods direct from the manufacturers you often get better deal than when bought through a third party. Why? Because the third party would like to make some profits by adding extra before selling the goods to you. The only time you will get better or discounted deals from the third party is when the goods are about to expire. GOD will not sell discounted or expired goods to his creatures. The whole earth will turn to dust the second GOD sneezes. Such is the power of GOD yet he lets live to be happy and free to serve him or not.
Religion is the third party to GOD. Religion representatives will not like it when you go direct to GOD. If that happens, their usefulness or importance will diminish and that is why religion representatives are using all the tricks and scaring tactics known to man to prevent you from approaching GOD direct. Nothing will happen to you to call on GOD direct. He is your father and made you in his own image with freedom to choose when and how to worship him.
Your father is a rich man with servants. Would you be happy if the only way to see your beloved father is through his servants? The answer is no so my dear friend fear not what man can do to you but what GOD can do to you. But GOD loves you so much not to inflict harm upon his beloved creatures. The so called Pastors know all this and that is called the secret of the Bible. The Bible you quote, the Bible Pastors use and the Bible that forms the oracle of all Christians one earth contains only codes to ways of GOD. However, what the Pastors don't understand is GOD may not like to inflict harm upon his creatures but we are all responsible for all our actions. Do good one earth and goodness will follow you all the way the same applies to bad things.
You see my friend, I am not going to be shot, robbed, inflicted and infected, suffer from financial problems simply because I question those criminals that use the name of GOD to cause all the atrocities known to man. Indeed, I may be shot tomorrow, have an accident, have huge depreciation on my account, be inflicted or infected tomorrow, next week or next year doesn't mean that it is the result of my encounter with those rapists, murders and evil worshipers called Pastors.
They are murders and thieves. Their actions are worst than ordinary thieves because they deceive people of low self esteem, vulnerable and insecure in many ways. Look at the face of healthy one year old baby. When that baby sees you the baby will smile and reaches out for you. The baby is so innocent even if you are having a bad day, the baby's smile and innocence will wipe it out of you. What kind of a human being will pierce a hot knife into the body of a happy smiling innocent defenseless baby? Those people that follow the ways of the Pastors are like the baby. They are very innocent, sometimes lost but always finding ways to attain to GOD. They run into the ways of the Pastors believing those are the ways to attain to GOD. When the see the Pastors or in the sight of the Pastors they become vulnerable and defenseless. What do the Pastors do?