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Post by alon on Mar 2, 2013 7:09:16 GMT -8
Shalom! New here, so thought I'd introduce myself.
As a kid growing up in the Baptist church, I always thought there were more than a few errors and inconsistencies with what I was taught. We all knew the pagan origins of our holidays, yet we dutifully held to them like they were sacred, unquestionable. Jesus, and in fact just about everyone and everything in the Bible was Jewish, yet all the names for people and terms was either Greek (mostly) or Latin. Jesus also had a last name (Christ), which I knew was wrong but I also knew to keep that to myself.
Those kinds of inconsistencies, along with my own self will caused me to fall away after I left home. Actually, fall away isn't so accurate as "dived off a cliff, cratered on impact and just kept digging." Eventually though you hit a place where you can't dig any more and just have to get out before the hole caves in on you. Fortunately I got prayed out as by that time I was too tired to climb. I went back and found a church with which to fellowship. The problem is that mainstream Christianity has never held the answers for which I was looking.
Long story short, I found the Messianic movement and started looking at things Hebraicly and wow!
Now my problem is I am over 200 mi from any Messianic communities at all, so I am left to sort through the trash heap on the internet for the truth. I've thrown out more books than I've kept from my online orders as they are outright heretical or just plain stupid; of the ones I did keep there are often notes scribbled in them concerning what I think are serious errors. So here I am. After reading your statement of faith and some of your essays I think this might be a good place to fellowship.
I will also drive you to distraction with questions since going this alone is, as my dad used to say, "the slow way to serve the Lord."
For my "nom de plum" here I chose "alon" (really a'lon, but the filter wouldn't accept that as a name). It's a little "doble entende" as it is Hebrew for "oak" and one letter short of "alone" in English. I often feel like I must stand alone, strong like an oak to withstand the not always well intentioned efforts of my fellow gentiles to either bring me back or force me to be silent.
My wife is a Jewish believer, but she thinks I am mishuga for doing this as she was quite happy to "nail all that to the Cross." She thinks it is a step backwards, although she is coming around to see I am serious so my status is being downgraded (I think) to "just a bit of a mishuganah."
My real name is Dan C. Hope to get to know you all here.
d'ri'shat shalom,
Dan
As a kid growing up in the Baptist church, I always thought there were more than a few errors and inconsistencies with what I was taught. We all knew the pagan origins of our holidays, yet we dutifully held to them like they were sacred, unquestionable. Jesus, and in fact just about everyone and everything in the Bible was Jewish, yet all the names for people and terms was either Greek (mostly) or Latin. Jesus also had a last name (Christ), which I knew was wrong but I also knew to keep that to myself.
Those kinds of inconsistencies, along with my own self will caused me to fall away after I left home. Actually, fall away isn't so accurate as "dived off a cliff, cratered on impact and just kept digging." Eventually though you hit a place where you can't dig any more and just have to get out before the hole caves in on you. Fortunately I got prayed out as by that time I was too tired to climb. I went back and found a church with which to fellowship. The problem is that mainstream Christianity has never held the answers for which I was looking.
Long story short, I found the Messianic movement and started looking at things Hebraicly and wow!
Now my problem is I am over 200 mi from any Messianic communities at all, so I am left to sort through the trash heap on the internet for the truth. I've thrown out more books than I've kept from my online orders as they are outright heretical or just plain stupid; of the ones I did keep there are often notes scribbled in them concerning what I think are serious errors. So here I am. After reading your statement of faith and some of your essays I think this might be a good place to fellowship.
I will also drive you to distraction with questions since going this alone is, as my dad used to say, "the slow way to serve the Lord."
For my "nom de plum" here I chose "alon" (really a'lon, but the filter wouldn't accept that as a name). It's a little "doble entende" as it is Hebrew for "oak" and one letter short of "alone" in English. I often feel like I must stand alone, strong like an oak to withstand the not always well intentioned efforts of my fellow gentiles to either bring me back or force me to be silent.
My wife is a Jewish believer, but she thinks I am mishuga for doing this as she was quite happy to "nail all that to the Cross." She thinks it is a step backwards, although she is coming around to see I am serious so my status is being downgraded (I think) to "just a bit of a mishuganah."
My real name is Dan C. Hope to get to know you all here.
d'ri'shat shalom,
Dan
heeh! Welcome Dan 
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