It is no secret that I no longer believe the doctrine that is taught in our seminaries, and therefore, in our churches. Reading a bible for yourself seems to have such an effect…

When YHVH called us to truth, Tracy and I recognized that we needed to leave the church.

Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins and receive her plagues!”

Mainstream teachings are not compatible with the WHOLE truth of the WHOLE bible.
However, I saw the church as a stepping stone to get where I was. I walked that path for many years.
I saw the church as a good and decent body, if not a bit confused.

As I dug into scripture and studied many details, I quickly came to realize how vastly different common accepted teachings are from what scripture actually says.
After a number of conversations, it began to really bother me that pastors and church leaders are aware of truth in scripture, but choose to teach denominational doctrine instead (their jobs depend on it, literally!!).

Galatians 1:8-10
⁸ But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should announce any “good news” to you other than what we have proclaimed to you, let that person be cursed! ⁹ As we have said before, so I now repeat: if anyone proclaims to you “good news” other than what you received, let that person be under a curse! ¹⁰ Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or YHVH’s (God’s)? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.

My attitude changed from “healthy respect for the church, but I can’t be a part of that” to “why are these organizations leading people astray?”

I have a great deal of love for the people of the church, but I’ve reached a point of having little patience for false teachings…  Love the people — disdain for the organizations.
And while we are at it, could someone please show me in scripture where it says to file a 501C3 agreement with the government, and take up collections in order to purchase billions upon billions of dollars worth of commercial real estate?
I’ll wait…
Go for it. Show me.

Anyway, I had a thought today.  I’ve learned in studying scripture, and in learning a smidgen of Hebrew, that words matter.  They matter a great deal.
So I looked up the etymology (the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history) of the word SEMINARY.
What did I find?

Seminary:
“plot where plants are raised from seeds,” from Latin seminarium “plant nursery, seed plot,” figuratively, “breeding ground,” from seminarius “of seed,” from semen (genitive seminis) “seed” (see semen). 

Why does this matter?
Oh, I don’t know…
How about Genesis 3:15??

I will put animosity
    between you and the woman—
        between your seed and her seed.
    He will crush your head,
        and you will crush his heel.

No, this is not earth-shattering. It is just a simple observation that I thought was interesting…
We’ve seen the Genesis 3:15 curse play out through all of history, and will continue to see it until the end.  I found it startling to see that the very name of our “religious misinformation institutions” is derived from the word “seed,” which happens to be cursed since nearly the beginning of time…