My blog topics are difficult because they do not line up with what most people have been taught, with the ideas that are understood and taught by mainstream Christianity going back many generations, over the course of many centuries.
This is what the bible says about it:
Jeremiah 16:19-20
19 O Lord, my strength and my fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
20 Will a man make gods for himself,
Which are not gods?
My message is a hard pill to swallow.
I get it.
I participated in mainstream Christianity for over 30 years.
I was in the same buildings and congregations, doing and saying and believing the very same things that our churches teach.
But then… I read my bible.
I started on page one and continued on from there, believing each and every word that I read.
It required me to let go of many ideas I’d been taught in church.
Why?
Because the Creator of all things, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob made some statements that He said are forever, for all generations, never ending, and a perpetual covenant.
If I begin with believing what He said and not letting go of what He said, then it forces me to purge much of what the church teaches.
And that is the gist of this blog.
It is difficult.
It is hard.
But it is based on believing what Yahweh [God] said, and later what Yeshua Messiah [Jesus] said.
And my blog makes some people angry.
Some of you may already know this about me, but I’ll try to explain in detail so you know where I am coming from with this blog…
I study the direct quotes of Yahweh [God] and Yeshua [Jesus].
They are my main authority. I build my foundation of knowledge, understanding, doctrine, beliefs, etc upon Their words.
If I read other scriptures that seem to be in conflict with Their words, I do the following:
#1
I keep my foundation built on the words of Yahweh and Yeshua and I do not change it. This is non-negotiable.
#2
I’ll evaluate the other scriptures and figure out why they “seem” to be in conflict.
I must understand the words of others within the boundaries set by the words of Yah and Yeshua. [never the other way around]
#3
If I can’t sort it out just yet, I’ll keep Yah’s and Yeshua’s words as my foundation and I’ll set aside the words of others that I am struggling with, and come back to them later after prayer and more study.
I do not believe we can EVER use the scriptures authored by people [prophets, apostles, etc] to render the words of Yahweh and Yeshua as empty, obsolete, or not true.
In my opinion, this is dangerous to create knowledge, understanding, doctrine, and beliefs by prioritizing the words of others over the words of Yah and Yeshua.
This was actually a problem in the first century church, and Peter warned us about it, especially with regard to the writings of Paul:
2Peter 3:14-17
14 “Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider thatthe longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked…”