Christianity Not Passing the Smell Test

So, last night I began to really dig deep into my Thompson Chain Reference King James Bible and compare it to the Tanach and I could clearly see how every scripture that they use in the old testament to support their prophecy of the Messiah (Jesus) has been changed in translation.  The words they choose to change are key words that change the meaning of the verse and it no longer provides anything to be fulfilled. For this reason, we have decided to learn Hebrew as a family so we can read and understand the Torah and the Tanach in its entirety without someone else’s translation.

For the first time in my life, I see what others see about contradiction in the bible, the translations, and the reason the New Testament is written in Greek and not Hebrew, as well as the 400 silent years and it is not passing the smell test.

Once I prayed and ask G-d to reveal the truth and give me wisdom, I have been led down a new path, a path away from Christianity and its manipulated doctrine. It started with me feeling that Christian’s were missing a key part of following G-d. It was then that I started following Messianic Jews and listening to Rabbi Jonathon Cahn.  Our family began listening to his messages for about a year now, then we began going to Torah classes with our former Christian pastor Rod. It was here that our eyes were opened. As we learned more from the Torah, the more we have begun to see how Messianic Judaism is wrong. Because they are atheist or secular Jew’s who have never followed their own faith they have been deceived. This is now where we are. We realize there is no new revelation; G-d has never changed His ways or His covenant He made with Jewish people.

 This is my family and my own personal journey to discover the truth or non-truth about Christianity and Judaism.

An Abrupt Change

It is hard to believe it has been just a little over 2 years since I began this blog, yet I never had any more thoughts about it or words of wisdom I felt compelled to share, until now.

For the most part of my life nothing had really changed. My belief in Christianity was the same. I have been taught in all it's doctrine's for over 36 years, with the last 33 being pretty dogmatic to more of a Baptist type belief. Regardless of the things I had been taught, there were a few things I couldn't really fully believe like the rapture. Their evidence wasn't enough to persuade me to believe whole heartedly that this indeed is going to happen and in the manner they put forth.

I was taught that salvation only comes through Jesus Christ and that he is the son of G-d and G-d and that I must ask him into my heart to be saved or I would go to hell. Even though I was brought up as a pagan, I discovered this Christian religion when I was just 13 years of age. What drew me to it? A widow woman with six children. It was her dedication to her God, he commitment to attend church and learn, her moral character, and her prayer life. This woman prayed about everything, her rising up in the morning and her going to bed at night and in the in between, asking G-d to make sure her car made it safely to their destination. Prior to this exposer, I maybe had been to church once or twice in my lifetime with my parents on a holiday by invitation of one of their  friends, other than that, we never talked of God. In fact, I heard more talk of ghosts and spirits of deceased relatives were talking to us through flickering lights and a Ouija board. Many nights I had nightmares of witches and weird things that frightened me as a child, yet I never accepted paganism.

Fast forward 36 years from my youth and I still seek to know G-d. I found I prayed more to G-d than to Jesus. Then I saw my former pastor change in appearance and I questioned him. He had left the church and was teaching Torah. I wanted to know more. I have always desired to know more about G-d. It was that first meeting we had that my former Christian pastor, telling us that we may come and learn but to be prepared that if we wanted to know the truth that G-d would reveal the truth and what we would learn would shake the foundation of everything we have ever been taught about Christianity.

I will admit, my first thoughts were how can this man who has preached the gospel for many years be deceived. I began to question his very commitment to Christianity and thought maybe he never really was a Christian. After all, everything I was ever taught led me to come to this conclusion.

But, within a few weeks, I was learning things about G-d that I had never been taught before. The light bulb was turned on inside my head and it was as he had said, rocking the very foundation of my faith.

It was at that time that I was going to have surgery. Before the surgery, I prayed, G-d reveal to me the truth. I want to know the truth, please do not let me die and not know the truth. This is eternity we are talking about here and I do not want to get it wrong. I want to make sure I know for sure that I have the truth.

Well, to make a long story short, I am still alive, but I did have complications, I did die and was resuscitated and it was not until tonight that I thought about that prayer to G-d that I had made about not allowing me to die without knowing the whole truth and getting it right. Today, I feel like I am alive because G-d honored my prayer that I would not sleep the sleep of death so I can learn and know the truth and have it right.