I would say the most important truth, is that there are over 2 billion people in this world who think about God first, then they think about others they think about you and me, and they care about themselves third because they fear ever being selfish in the eyes of God, Jesus Christ, and they keep those first two Commandments, the first to love God with all mine body and soul, and the second Commandment is to love somebody else before one’s self. And I would say a good percentage of those people when they think about Michael Jordan and LeBron James, Jordan was worthless to think about, and he created a billion sneaker industry in China, and LeBron James did the same thing, except for he added global alcohol poisoning putting his worthless face on boxes of Hennessy. I’m mentioning this because your article points out a severe plague in this world of self-centeredness, and at its core, it came from decades of no biblical principles in the schools no Bible being taught, did you do a Christian principles, especially in this country that are founding fathers wrote its vital importance in teaching our history and also to keep people from becoming corrupt, keeping the family unit as the most important thing after God, the sacred idea of marriage as a covenant of God, and if these things weren’t removed from our school systems in the 60s, Kids wouldn’t be growing up learning about sex at 13 years old from teachers and also that we came from apes…. Instead, there would be no mention of sexuality in the classroom, and the teachers would be pointing out that we came from God and Adam and Eve… and that we were not like animals, but we were creators and very different, and that we had a spirit inside of us that goes to either heaven, or it gets separated from God if we are not in line when we die…. Giving us great. Hope that this is not just one life we’re living. The entire country had a different ethos just 75 years ago…. The church at the hub of every town and city, in conjunction with every family was how we ran our school systems, the curriculums, the books, the teachers, these things were not installed by districts from a centralized government, there was no Board of Education, even our preschool and kindergartens, and most smaller schools had private buses, volunteers that would pick the kids up and bring them to school if they couldn’t walk or parents would drive them… no yellow school bus with Board of education on the side. And everybody was learning the dangers of socialism, communism, fascism, and Marxism, like the Nazis and what they did with their school systems by removing the Bibles from their schools during Hitler’s rise…. It’s what our government did to our school systems they copied the exact socioeconomic policies of Adolf Hitler, except for our government used sex education instead of turning kids against certain religions, though our school systems did that much later recently with DEI, they literally adapted communist, socialist, Marxist, and fascist, ideologies and governing operations from the most evil dictators in history, Germany Russia, China, North Korea, and today we’re seeing radical Islamic jihadist ideals being taught in our universities….
These are actually the most important things to be pointing out to people today, otherwise it’s a bunch of people giving self-help idea ideas about the self about how people feel and how they can change how they feel how they live, trying to address problems that so many people have, without even explaining how we got here with such a gigantic social sickness, why we have so many people trying to better themselves and think about themselves and get into themselves and free themselves of all these issues problems, releasing themselves from their own bondage from anxiety, depression, the fears of the world of disease of government of climate change, of all the fake science that we’ve been hearing since NASA came up with a plethora of things to fear in the 70s that never materialized everything from losing our agriculture, starvation, global warming global freezing, always looking 20 years ahead that we better worry and do something about it before the world ends from our own destruction, the pollution was going to kill us… we were going to have no more water… the seas we’re going to rise up and drown everybody…. None of it happened.
NASA would’ve never been able to put out any of those insane fear. Mongering lies if the Bibles weren’t removed from our schools. .. because the old testament teaches us that nothing will change the seas will never rise, that God is in control of all of it, and we can enjoy the whole world and never worry, as long as we trust in God we will see his beautiful work, play out just as it’s prophesied…. And that actually all came true. It was all true, including the Earth was round., and they removed that history, where the Greeks and other nations 1000 years ago, we’re claiming the Earth was flat, people were put in jail for saying otherwise, when the scriptures read that the Earth was round thousands of years before those philosophers and astrologers and teachers were giving the people those false ideas. The Bible was the number one factor in our society that made it healthy, prosperous., there was no such thing as legal divorce or abortion, no gender ideology, no kids going to school thinking about themselves and their own feelings about who they are, because over 95% of everyone who went to school every day was thinking about God and then other others… to self-centeredness the narcissism that we see today came from those books being removed from our lives. And there’s the core of all the problems in our country and the rest of the world.
I genuinely appreciate your passion and perspective. And honestly, I do agree with one of your core points: the world could absolutely use more faith, more connection to a higher power, and more spiritual grounding—regardless of which religion someone chooses to follow. That relationship with something bigger than ourselves is vital. It shapes our values, gives us hope, and reminds us we’re not the center of the universe.
That said, we’re still human. Being human means we’re flawed, we mess up, and sometimes we chase healing in all the wrong places. We’re born sinners. Even the most devout fall short—and that’s kind of the point. The Christian Bible lists 600+ sins, and I highly doubt any of us, ncluding popes, preachers, or people reading this comment—are nailing all of them. That’s why grace exists. That’s why Christ led with compassion, not just condemnation.
My article isn’t anti-faith. It’s pro-awareness. If we had more love and more accountability to something higher than our egos, we probably wouldn’t be drowning in fear, conflict, and the kind of spiritual bankruptcy you mentioned. So yes - we align more than you might think. We’re just preaching from slightly different pulpits.
Peace to you. And hey- before you go, thanks for your ongoing support in my comment section. I’d also encourage you to stick around for next week’s drop. It’s... well, let’s just say it’s anything but Christian. Maybe even my most sinful one yet.
I have an audio monologue on my Instagram about something that happened to me at a party in Manhattan in 1998 I popped out of my body. What I saw, I read in the scriptures in 2019. I gave my life to Jesus Christ then. I was a liberal democrat elite for most of my life. Not anymore. I’ve been to the rehabs and AA and all of that especially in LA. I never believed in any real religion because I thought they were all nuts, some of it was good. Some of it was bad. But when I really study the scripture and the difference between believing in Christ., not the religion, but the book and what it teaches. It is the only doctrine that has absolute forgiveness for all sins, the deal Jesus made on the cross, just believing in him, gives us absolute forgiveness and eternal life he promises, nobody even has to know anything about the Bible, no work to be done, no amount of praying or religious rituals are any good, it is a gift from God as grace, because like you said, we are sinners, and by believing in him, God gives us the eternal life and forgiveness as a gift that we cannot earn. And this is the opposite of almost every other religion like the Muslims, the praying the Mecca, all this work has to be done in order to please God and nobody’s even sure if they ever get forgiven, or if they are in line.. I came from the synagogue. It’s nothing but rituals and work to do in order to please God., and the mosaic law is in the scripture actually that it is a punishment that was given to Moses because everybody was sinning against God, but they did not teach this in synagogue. They kind of skip over Abraham where he was considered righteous in the eyes of God for just having faith, and he fell asleep and didn’t do any work. He was a total failure. It’s the Abraham covenant that shows the true love of God and how he will forgive us because we cannot ever really be good. The separation of the Christian church and the synagogue that is another huge disaster., and as the millennials went by people just became more and more fractured, there was less real studying of the book and people just listened to different speakers and preachers, and then believed whatever they felt seemed right, which is also in the scripture teaching people not to do that. Like when we were in AA, a God of our own understanding, even though nobody could even understand how to stop doing drugs, we would have our own God of our own understanding? It’s almost laughable now that I look back at it and it’s no wonder nobody really ever got sober. When I truly believed in what the words of Jesus Christ were teaching and the Old Testament correctly., not only where my drug years completely gone, but that fear of heaven in hell that desire to be in the eternal life with God, it just wiped out all desire desires to do anything wrong, a purified, my thoughts, all my sexual things, lying, worrying any self-centered thinking, it was gone… even my speech, no more foul language those words never come out of my mouth, even the sound of my voice is different. It is beyond transformative, and as I continue studying the books, the history of nations, the scientific facts, the archaeological and geological, it’s more accurate than anything I learned in college, it’s way more accurate than most Ivy League studies, like the Greeks with the earth is flat philosophies, and other things, the scriptures already said the Earth was round thousands of years before that. The evolution we were taught that we came from apes, Genesis says the first man was made from something in the ground afar was the Hebrew word meaning ashes, it says mud, dirt, or dust, and then modern science shows that we are made out of 96% carbon and nitrogen and when burning plants and animals turn into ashes and go into the ground, it turns into carbon and hydrogen, nitrogen in the bodies and the plants disappear, and it’s oil in the ground. It’s why they removed those books from our schools in the 60s. They did not want us to know these things., because there’s actual proof scientific proof that there’s a good possibility God did come down here in the beginning and tell all these things to Adam and Eve and their children about what they were made out of, so that in the future would come up with the proof. We are made of something out of the ground. Our bodies are almost exactly the same thing as oil. With just some different properties, but when we decay, it goes back into the ground as oil… and all these other scientific things that are super cool, especially if we were kids learning this, it would’ve made way more sense than coming from apes, especially since we still have apes. Like which ape exactly evolved? And then how come no other animals ever evolved into anything else? It also says that in the book that no other animal will evolve into anything else but itself and that man will create, we will evolve as a society, creating things building upward toward God, animals will not. That’s why the bird builds the same nest for thousands of years it never changes. A squirrel never figures out how to fly. But we did human beings create planes rockets…. They really screwed us big time by removing the books from our schools… and now when I researched all the curriculums, we were learning, including social studies in the 70s, it was the socioeconomic policies of communist, Russia, and Nazi Germany without the bigotry against Jews and Christians… but go figure. They eventually started putting that into the schools with DEI., as we can see radical Islamic ideals being taught in universities today… it is a stunning education I’ve been getting… and yes, it is so much healthier for a child to be learning about Adam and Eve and that stuff from the ground and oil and science, then the insane lunatic evils that they are teaching kindergarten kids today. I saw all these moms outside of the Supreme Court a few weeks ago fighting to get their children out of a preschool English class, where the teacher was reading pride puppy to teach them ABC’s, it’s about a drag queen and the bondage equipment, and the back of the book the kids can find the different bondage items, and that that’s how they’re learning their ABC’s. It’s hard to believe that mothers would have to fight to get their kids out of the classroom that a teacher and the Board of Education was saying that they would fail if they didn’t take the class. Almost at a loss for words on that issue. And then what I saw outside the courthouse with the mother’s, was a huge group of blue haired, LGBT kids, waving rainbow, flags, and verbally attacking the mothers with the worst language you could ever imagine they were calling them…. Mind-boggling. Anyway, God bless you!
I really appreciate your openness in sharing your deeply personal journey with finding Jesus. I want to respond to something specific you touched on—your point about Jesus, religion, and the synagogue.
I was born and raised Christian, and I’m still very much grounded in my faith. Like you, I recognize that there’s a clear distinction between the structure of religion itself—the teachings, the traditions—and our personal relationship with God. That relationship, the one we have with Jesus as our Savior, is deeply personal and often separate from the religious system around it.
I’m currently working on building that relationship every single day. It’s powerful, it’s humbling, and it’s where I find true healing. I also believe everyone’s spiritual path is extremely sacred. We all arrive at faith and transformation in different ways and on different timelines. So I think it’s important that we offer grace—not judgment or shame—to those who haven’t started that journey yet. I know I wouldn’t have responded well to being shamed when I was just beginning to figure things out. Jesus didn’t judge people at their lowest—He met them there. He sat with the drunks, the outcasts, the broken, and the prostitutes. He didn’t participate in their sin, but He didn’t push them away either.
So yes, I agree with you: forgiveness and a relationship with Jesus are the heartbeat of faith for Christians.
But I also want to gently push back on the way you minimized Judaism and the synagogue. Over the past few years, I’ve been participating in some Jewish practices—Shabbat, traditional prayers, the holidays—and those experiences have deepened my connection to Jesus more than anything else. It took me a while to realize it, but these were His traditions. These were the rituals of His life. He was Jewish. He is the King of the Jews. Honoring that doesn’t conflict with my faith—it enhances it. And I find it deeply, deeply beautiful.
While I don’t identify as Jewish in religion, I feel incredibly connected to the roots of Judaism because of Jesus. There’s something profoundly meaningful in the way Jewish people celebrate their holidays and uphold their traditions. In my personal view, those celebrations are often more spiritually intentional than what you see in many modern Christian churches. And I say that with love.
I’ve come to believe that it’s possible to hold both: belief in Jesus as my Savior and deep respect—and even participation—in Jewish traditions. I think this would fall under Messianic Judaism, but honestly, I’m not sure the label matters. What matters is that it brings me closer to Him.
So yes, we are very much on the same page when it comes to grace, faith, and the relationship with Jesus and the world needs more of it. I just believe there’s more than one path to that closeness—and I’m incredibly grateful that I’ve found one that feels personal, powerful, and real for me right now.
I’m also truly glad you’ve found the one that’s right for you.
Your faith in Jesus Christ is the reason that Judaism makes sense. That’s what I’m explaining… I have rabbi in my family, relatives in Tel Aviv they are all liberal. For my entire life, the synagogue skipped over parts of Abraham., the rabbi did not teach us Isaiah properly, they did not point out the real story behind David. They twisted everything or omitted many things. I’ve had countless arguments with rabbi in the last seven years, the last one a few weeks ago literally got angry with me and his wife was telling him to get away from me, as I was asking him to please explain Isaiah out of the book which I had with me, and he said he would not do that. It’s a waste of time. All I was saying is why don’t they teach it like the pastor in the Christian church who actually reads it word for word? There were a couple rabbi a few years ago that admitted to me, that I was right, but it was way too late to start changing the The storyline because the rabbi said they would lose half the congregation, if not more, that almost the entire congregation would leave the synagogue and join the Christian Church. And I said, isn’t that the whole point? Revelation says that Israel will eventually come to Jesus Christ and that is definitely true. I believe the Messiah was coming when he already came 2500 years ago. And for some reason, I believe it was the liberal movement and the removal of the books from schools, it made most of us not really read it on our own, so we all were going to church in synagogue and not putting the two books together… and hardly any Jews ever went into the church and listened to the pastors. The first time I walked into a church in 2019 and got my Bible from Pastor Steve Wilburn, I was blown away that the sermon was on the Old Testament… and then when I went back over and over all they did was talk about the Old Testament, then I read the entire book from Genesis to Revelation, and when I got to Matthew in the New Testament, it was the lineage from Adam and Eve 64 generations to Jesus, then gospel of John spoke of the word, the word was spoken by God it was referring to Genesis, and then sermon on the mount Jesus was literally reading Isaiah… I almost fell over. Like I realize there’s nothing new in the New Testament. The entire New Testament is just the Old Testament revealed and explained., Hebrews, Paul is explaining the mosaic law as impossible to follow. Nobody will keep the law., Jesus with the new covenant isn’t really new, he’s pointing out Abraham as being the original covenant and that’s the one that was correct because we are going to fail in the law.. the Jewish religion is wonderful with holidays and traditions and all kinds of cool stuff… but it is antichrist… It is rejecting Jesus Christ., and when it it’s really studied as two books together, from Genesis to Malachi, everything points to Jesus. It literally spells Jesus out in Isaiah. And then Malachi says that there will be a curse to the people that’s the last sentence in the end of the Old Testament. Certainly that was never explained to us either in synagogue. Like why would there be a curse? The answer is because God’s people would reject the Messiah that was coming as Jesus Christ. I study it every day and the more I study it, the more I see the Christians as Jews… it’s like Christianity is the correct Judaism… and the synagogue is stuck in the desert with Moses, basically with a golden calf Hahah I mean, they never even explained why two generations in the desert died, and why Moses never even made it to Canaan. Why did Joshua lead them in? It’s the celebration of Exodus., and paint Moses as this heroic figure… he was a total failure when you’re really study it, the old testament spells it out that if you follow Moses, you’re going to end up dying before you get to heaven and you’ll never make it.. The law was given to the Jews, and then the rest of the old testament shows how they will fail over and over., and then they will keep getting punished, and even prophecies about all the nations coming against the Jews, and they will continue being attacked because they will be immoral, they will eventually celebrate what is evil as being good. And you can see we have pride sex parades in Tel Aviv today., and then we got October 7. Ezekiel talks about God and Magog the people from the north attacking Israel because they are immoral, God uses the evil regime of the north, which was Persia, the north directly Lebanon that’s where all the bombs were coming from the last couple years, and it says it’s because Israel needs to wake up and recognize Jesus. I’ve been on fire for the last few years, addressing synagogues rabbi…. And the pushback.? it’s almost exactly like liberal Democrats… like almost an incoherent deliberately obstinate… and it’s mind-boggling because I am a Jew… this was my heritage… like there shouldn’t be a synagogue in a Christian church.. as separate…. And it is really the division when Jesus came that kind of created almost all problems we have in the world everything focused around Israel Iran world upheaval…. There is no way we would have any of these problems if everybody just believed, Jesus was telling the truth that he was God from Genesis… just imagine if there was no division at that day he was crucified.. imagine if Rome fell to their knees and believed, and all the Pharisees and the Sadducees fell to their knees and believed… I don’t know what we would call the church today, but it would be some kind of all inclusive body of people, and there would probably be hardly any Muslims in the world… there would be like at least 7 billion people just be believing in Jesus Christ and maybe there’d be across on the church but who knows what we would be called…. But I definitely know that revelation is true. Everything has already come through over 3700 prophecies., so we can rest assure that these things are definitely going to play out… what sucks is it says Israel will almost be obliterated again, and they will be pushed to the south the remaining survivors, they will finally cry out. We are sorry and recognize Jesus….. that will be glorious, but it just is a very sad thing that it has to take that much punishment for them to wake up. I’m surprised that after the holocaust the entire synagogue didn’t realize that maybe it was God trying to tell them that they made a mistake about Jesus. We have had a lot of of cohen conversions from the synagogue to people believing in Jesus., but just not as many as you would think. And that is also a result of nobody reading the New Testament. Like if my rabbi Cousin didn’t totally reject, the new testament basically brainwash us and his congregation and everybody else in this in the God to believe that the book was worthless, and Don don’t even bother opening it… like if we just peaked at the New Testament… if we read Isaiah…. Everybody would’ve been like hey! Hey rabbi! Sermon on the mountain is Isaiah! and the thing is the rabbis study all religions, so my cousin Rabbi seigel absolutely knew about Isaiah and the New Testament and he just didn’t mention it. Oh, by the way, my cousin, the rabbi had a nervous breakdown in the middle of a service he was in Brooklyn, New York around 1979 Ish, and he stopped the sermon, and told his congregation that it was all a lie, he could not go on teaching the Torah, he didn’t believe it, he walked out, then he packed his bags and left his wife and children for some time and went on some weird vegan desert sabbatical where he was in the wilderness for a couple years and came back with a big beard, dark tan and was able to stand on his head and hands for hours and yoga positions upside down… and he showed up at the house with his own wooden bowls and spoons that he made with his hands… sort of lost his mind and became this weird earth person like John the Baptist except he wasn’t baptizing anybody…. Hahah oh well.
Hi Mike. Thank you for the comment and compliment. It's always nice to hear feedback and perspective from the receiving side of my essays.
#7 was one of the lessons I learned after reading the 4 Agreements and it really changed my life. It's still not always easy to experience being treated certain ways, especially by people we love - but having the understanding that it's about them and not me, makes it a heck of alot easier to handle and process....and FORGIVE. :)
A lot of these points resonated. I'm a big fan of accountability because I think it gives me back my power. It's within my power to change it. So I really like those who emphasize personal accountability. Nice job with this one!
I would say the most important truth, is that there are over 2 billion people in this world who think about God first, then they think about others they think about you and me, and they care about themselves third because they fear ever being selfish in the eyes of God, Jesus Christ, and they keep those first two Commandments, the first to love God with all mine body and soul, and the second Commandment is to love somebody else before one’s self. And I would say a good percentage of those people when they think about Michael Jordan and LeBron James, Jordan was worthless to think about, and he created a billion sneaker industry in China, and LeBron James did the same thing, except for he added global alcohol poisoning putting his worthless face on boxes of Hennessy. I’m mentioning this because your article points out a severe plague in this world of self-centeredness, and at its core, it came from decades of no biblical principles in the schools no Bible being taught, did you do a Christian principles, especially in this country that are founding fathers wrote its vital importance in teaching our history and also to keep people from becoming corrupt, keeping the family unit as the most important thing after God, the sacred idea of marriage as a covenant of God, and if these things weren’t removed from our school systems in the 60s, Kids wouldn’t be growing up learning about sex at 13 years old from teachers and also that we came from apes…. Instead, there would be no mention of sexuality in the classroom, and the teachers would be pointing out that we came from God and Adam and Eve… and that we were not like animals, but we were creators and very different, and that we had a spirit inside of us that goes to either heaven, or it gets separated from God if we are not in line when we die…. Giving us great. Hope that this is not just one life we’re living. The entire country had a different ethos just 75 years ago…. The church at the hub of every town and city, in conjunction with every family was how we ran our school systems, the curriculums, the books, the teachers, these things were not installed by districts from a centralized government, there was no Board of Education, even our preschool and kindergartens, and most smaller schools had private buses, volunteers that would pick the kids up and bring them to school if they couldn’t walk or parents would drive them… no yellow school bus with Board of education on the side. And everybody was learning the dangers of socialism, communism, fascism, and Marxism, like the Nazis and what they did with their school systems by removing the Bibles from their schools during Hitler’s rise…. It’s what our government did to our school systems they copied the exact socioeconomic policies of Adolf Hitler, except for our government used sex education instead of turning kids against certain religions, though our school systems did that much later recently with DEI, they literally adapted communist, socialist, Marxist, and fascist, ideologies and governing operations from the most evil dictators in history, Germany Russia, China, North Korea, and today we’re seeing radical Islamic jihadist ideals being taught in our universities….
These are actually the most important things to be pointing out to people today, otherwise it’s a bunch of people giving self-help idea ideas about the self about how people feel and how they can change how they feel how they live, trying to address problems that so many people have, without even explaining how we got here with such a gigantic social sickness, why we have so many people trying to better themselves and think about themselves and get into themselves and free themselves of all these issues problems, releasing themselves from their own bondage from anxiety, depression, the fears of the world of disease of government of climate change, of all the fake science that we’ve been hearing since NASA came up with a plethora of things to fear in the 70s that never materialized everything from losing our agriculture, starvation, global warming global freezing, always looking 20 years ahead that we better worry and do something about it before the world ends from our own destruction, the pollution was going to kill us… we were going to have no more water… the seas we’re going to rise up and drown everybody…. None of it happened.
NASA would’ve never been able to put out any of those insane fear. Mongering lies if the Bibles weren’t removed from our schools. .. because the old testament teaches us that nothing will change the seas will never rise, that God is in control of all of it, and we can enjoy the whole world and never worry, as long as we trust in God we will see his beautiful work, play out just as it’s prophesied…. And that actually all came true. It was all true, including the Earth was round., and they removed that history, where the Greeks and other nations 1000 years ago, we’re claiming the Earth was flat, people were put in jail for saying otherwise, when the scriptures read that the Earth was round thousands of years before those philosophers and astrologers and teachers were giving the people those false ideas. The Bible was the number one factor in our society that made it healthy, prosperous., there was no such thing as legal divorce or abortion, no gender ideology, no kids going to school thinking about themselves and their own feelings about who they are, because over 95% of everyone who went to school every day was thinking about God and then other others… to self-centeredness the narcissism that we see today came from those books being removed from our lives. And there’s the core of all the problems in our country and the rest of the world.
Hey Bud, nice to hear from you again.
I genuinely appreciate your passion and perspective. And honestly, I do agree with one of your core points: the world could absolutely use more faith, more connection to a higher power, and more spiritual grounding—regardless of which religion someone chooses to follow. That relationship with something bigger than ourselves is vital. It shapes our values, gives us hope, and reminds us we’re not the center of the universe.
That said, we’re still human. Being human means we’re flawed, we mess up, and sometimes we chase healing in all the wrong places. We’re born sinners. Even the most devout fall short—and that’s kind of the point. The Christian Bible lists 600+ sins, and I highly doubt any of us, ncluding popes, preachers, or people reading this comment—are nailing all of them. That’s why grace exists. That’s why Christ led with compassion, not just condemnation.
My article isn’t anti-faith. It’s pro-awareness. If we had more love and more accountability to something higher than our egos, we probably wouldn’t be drowning in fear, conflict, and the kind of spiritual bankruptcy you mentioned. So yes - we align more than you might think. We’re just preaching from slightly different pulpits.
Peace to you. And hey- before you go, thanks for your ongoing support in my comment section. I’d also encourage you to stick around for next week’s drop. It’s... well, let’s just say it’s anything but Christian. Maybe even my most sinful one yet.
I have an audio monologue on my Instagram about something that happened to me at a party in Manhattan in 1998 I popped out of my body. What I saw, I read in the scriptures in 2019. I gave my life to Jesus Christ then. I was a liberal democrat elite for most of my life. Not anymore. I’ve been to the rehabs and AA and all of that especially in LA. I never believed in any real religion because I thought they were all nuts, some of it was good. Some of it was bad. But when I really study the scripture and the difference between believing in Christ., not the religion, but the book and what it teaches. It is the only doctrine that has absolute forgiveness for all sins, the deal Jesus made on the cross, just believing in him, gives us absolute forgiveness and eternal life he promises, nobody even has to know anything about the Bible, no work to be done, no amount of praying or religious rituals are any good, it is a gift from God as grace, because like you said, we are sinners, and by believing in him, God gives us the eternal life and forgiveness as a gift that we cannot earn. And this is the opposite of almost every other religion like the Muslims, the praying the Mecca, all this work has to be done in order to please God and nobody’s even sure if they ever get forgiven, or if they are in line.. I came from the synagogue. It’s nothing but rituals and work to do in order to please God., and the mosaic law is in the scripture actually that it is a punishment that was given to Moses because everybody was sinning against God, but they did not teach this in synagogue. They kind of skip over Abraham where he was considered righteous in the eyes of God for just having faith, and he fell asleep and didn’t do any work. He was a total failure. It’s the Abraham covenant that shows the true love of God and how he will forgive us because we cannot ever really be good. The separation of the Christian church and the synagogue that is another huge disaster., and as the millennials went by people just became more and more fractured, there was less real studying of the book and people just listened to different speakers and preachers, and then believed whatever they felt seemed right, which is also in the scripture teaching people not to do that. Like when we were in AA, a God of our own understanding, even though nobody could even understand how to stop doing drugs, we would have our own God of our own understanding? It’s almost laughable now that I look back at it and it’s no wonder nobody really ever got sober. When I truly believed in what the words of Jesus Christ were teaching and the Old Testament correctly., not only where my drug years completely gone, but that fear of heaven in hell that desire to be in the eternal life with God, it just wiped out all desire desires to do anything wrong, a purified, my thoughts, all my sexual things, lying, worrying any self-centered thinking, it was gone… even my speech, no more foul language those words never come out of my mouth, even the sound of my voice is different. It is beyond transformative, and as I continue studying the books, the history of nations, the scientific facts, the archaeological and geological, it’s more accurate than anything I learned in college, it’s way more accurate than most Ivy League studies, like the Greeks with the earth is flat philosophies, and other things, the scriptures already said the Earth was round thousands of years before that. The evolution we were taught that we came from apes, Genesis says the first man was made from something in the ground afar was the Hebrew word meaning ashes, it says mud, dirt, or dust, and then modern science shows that we are made out of 96% carbon and nitrogen and when burning plants and animals turn into ashes and go into the ground, it turns into carbon and hydrogen, nitrogen in the bodies and the plants disappear, and it’s oil in the ground. It’s why they removed those books from our schools in the 60s. They did not want us to know these things., because there’s actual proof scientific proof that there’s a good possibility God did come down here in the beginning and tell all these things to Adam and Eve and their children about what they were made out of, so that in the future would come up with the proof. We are made of something out of the ground. Our bodies are almost exactly the same thing as oil. With just some different properties, but when we decay, it goes back into the ground as oil… and all these other scientific things that are super cool, especially if we were kids learning this, it would’ve made way more sense than coming from apes, especially since we still have apes. Like which ape exactly evolved? And then how come no other animals ever evolved into anything else? It also says that in the book that no other animal will evolve into anything else but itself and that man will create, we will evolve as a society, creating things building upward toward God, animals will not. That’s why the bird builds the same nest for thousands of years it never changes. A squirrel never figures out how to fly. But we did human beings create planes rockets…. They really screwed us big time by removing the books from our schools… and now when I researched all the curriculums, we were learning, including social studies in the 70s, it was the socioeconomic policies of communist, Russia, and Nazi Germany without the bigotry against Jews and Christians… but go figure. They eventually started putting that into the schools with DEI., as we can see radical Islamic ideals being taught in universities today… it is a stunning education I’ve been getting… and yes, it is so much healthier for a child to be learning about Adam and Eve and that stuff from the ground and oil and science, then the insane lunatic evils that they are teaching kindergarten kids today. I saw all these moms outside of the Supreme Court a few weeks ago fighting to get their children out of a preschool English class, where the teacher was reading pride puppy to teach them ABC’s, it’s about a drag queen and the bondage equipment, and the back of the book the kids can find the different bondage items, and that that’s how they’re learning their ABC’s. It’s hard to believe that mothers would have to fight to get their kids out of the classroom that a teacher and the Board of Education was saying that they would fail if they didn’t take the class. Almost at a loss for words on that issue. And then what I saw outside the courthouse with the mother’s, was a huge group of blue haired, LGBT kids, waving rainbow, flags, and verbally attacking the mothers with the worst language you could ever imagine they were calling them…. Mind-boggling. Anyway, God bless you!
I really appreciate your openness in sharing your deeply personal journey with finding Jesus. I want to respond to something specific you touched on—your point about Jesus, religion, and the synagogue.
I was born and raised Christian, and I’m still very much grounded in my faith. Like you, I recognize that there’s a clear distinction between the structure of religion itself—the teachings, the traditions—and our personal relationship with God. That relationship, the one we have with Jesus as our Savior, is deeply personal and often separate from the religious system around it.
I’m currently working on building that relationship every single day. It’s powerful, it’s humbling, and it’s where I find true healing. I also believe everyone’s spiritual path is extremely sacred. We all arrive at faith and transformation in different ways and on different timelines. So I think it’s important that we offer grace—not judgment or shame—to those who haven’t started that journey yet. I know I wouldn’t have responded well to being shamed when I was just beginning to figure things out. Jesus didn’t judge people at their lowest—He met them there. He sat with the drunks, the outcasts, the broken, and the prostitutes. He didn’t participate in their sin, but He didn’t push them away either.
So yes, I agree with you: forgiveness and a relationship with Jesus are the heartbeat of faith for Christians.
But I also want to gently push back on the way you minimized Judaism and the synagogue. Over the past few years, I’ve been participating in some Jewish practices—Shabbat, traditional prayers, the holidays—and those experiences have deepened my connection to Jesus more than anything else. It took me a while to realize it, but these were His traditions. These were the rituals of His life. He was Jewish. He is the King of the Jews. Honoring that doesn’t conflict with my faith—it enhances it. And I find it deeply, deeply beautiful.
While I don’t identify as Jewish in religion, I feel incredibly connected to the roots of Judaism because of Jesus. There’s something profoundly meaningful in the way Jewish people celebrate their holidays and uphold their traditions. In my personal view, those celebrations are often more spiritually intentional than what you see in many modern Christian churches. And I say that with love.
I’ve come to believe that it’s possible to hold both: belief in Jesus as my Savior and deep respect—and even participation—in Jewish traditions. I think this would fall under Messianic Judaism, but honestly, I’m not sure the label matters. What matters is that it brings me closer to Him.
So yes, we are very much on the same page when it comes to grace, faith, and the relationship with Jesus and the world needs more of it. I just believe there’s more than one path to that closeness—and I’m incredibly grateful that I’ve found one that feels personal, powerful, and real for me right now.
I’m also truly glad you’ve found the one that’s right for you.
God bless, and thank you again, Bud.
Your faith in Jesus Christ is the reason that Judaism makes sense. That’s what I’m explaining… I have rabbi in my family, relatives in Tel Aviv they are all liberal. For my entire life, the synagogue skipped over parts of Abraham., the rabbi did not teach us Isaiah properly, they did not point out the real story behind David. They twisted everything or omitted many things. I’ve had countless arguments with rabbi in the last seven years, the last one a few weeks ago literally got angry with me and his wife was telling him to get away from me, as I was asking him to please explain Isaiah out of the book which I had with me, and he said he would not do that. It’s a waste of time. All I was saying is why don’t they teach it like the pastor in the Christian church who actually reads it word for word? There were a couple rabbi a few years ago that admitted to me, that I was right, but it was way too late to start changing the The storyline because the rabbi said they would lose half the congregation, if not more, that almost the entire congregation would leave the synagogue and join the Christian Church. And I said, isn’t that the whole point? Revelation says that Israel will eventually come to Jesus Christ and that is definitely true. I believe the Messiah was coming when he already came 2500 years ago. And for some reason, I believe it was the liberal movement and the removal of the books from schools, it made most of us not really read it on our own, so we all were going to church in synagogue and not putting the two books together… and hardly any Jews ever went into the church and listened to the pastors. The first time I walked into a church in 2019 and got my Bible from Pastor Steve Wilburn, I was blown away that the sermon was on the Old Testament… and then when I went back over and over all they did was talk about the Old Testament, then I read the entire book from Genesis to Revelation, and when I got to Matthew in the New Testament, it was the lineage from Adam and Eve 64 generations to Jesus, then gospel of John spoke of the word, the word was spoken by God it was referring to Genesis, and then sermon on the mount Jesus was literally reading Isaiah… I almost fell over. Like I realize there’s nothing new in the New Testament. The entire New Testament is just the Old Testament revealed and explained., Hebrews, Paul is explaining the mosaic law as impossible to follow. Nobody will keep the law., Jesus with the new covenant isn’t really new, he’s pointing out Abraham as being the original covenant and that’s the one that was correct because we are going to fail in the law.. the Jewish religion is wonderful with holidays and traditions and all kinds of cool stuff… but it is antichrist… It is rejecting Jesus Christ., and when it it’s really studied as two books together, from Genesis to Malachi, everything points to Jesus. It literally spells Jesus out in Isaiah. And then Malachi says that there will be a curse to the people that’s the last sentence in the end of the Old Testament. Certainly that was never explained to us either in synagogue. Like why would there be a curse? The answer is because God’s people would reject the Messiah that was coming as Jesus Christ. I study it every day and the more I study it, the more I see the Christians as Jews… it’s like Christianity is the correct Judaism… and the synagogue is stuck in the desert with Moses, basically with a golden calf Hahah I mean, they never even explained why two generations in the desert died, and why Moses never even made it to Canaan. Why did Joshua lead them in? It’s the celebration of Exodus., and paint Moses as this heroic figure… he was a total failure when you’re really study it, the old testament spells it out that if you follow Moses, you’re going to end up dying before you get to heaven and you’ll never make it.. The law was given to the Jews, and then the rest of the old testament shows how they will fail over and over., and then they will keep getting punished, and even prophecies about all the nations coming against the Jews, and they will continue being attacked because they will be immoral, they will eventually celebrate what is evil as being good. And you can see we have pride sex parades in Tel Aviv today., and then we got October 7. Ezekiel talks about God and Magog the people from the north attacking Israel because they are immoral, God uses the evil regime of the north, which was Persia, the north directly Lebanon that’s where all the bombs were coming from the last couple years, and it says it’s because Israel needs to wake up and recognize Jesus. I’ve been on fire for the last few years, addressing synagogues rabbi…. And the pushback.? it’s almost exactly like liberal Democrats… like almost an incoherent deliberately obstinate… and it’s mind-boggling because I am a Jew… this was my heritage… like there shouldn’t be a synagogue in a Christian church.. as separate…. And it is really the division when Jesus came that kind of created almost all problems we have in the world everything focused around Israel Iran world upheaval…. There is no way we would have any of these problems if everybody just believed, Jesus was telling the truth that he was God from Genesis… just imagine if there was no division at that day he was crucified.. imagine if Rome fell to their knees and believed, and all the Pharisees and the Sadducees fell to their knees and believed… I don’t know what we would call the church today, but it would be some kind of all inclusive body of people, and there would probably be hardly any Muslims in the world… there would be like at least 7 billion people just be believing in Jesus Christ and maybe there’d be across on the church but who knows what we would be called…. But I definitely know that revelation is true. Everything has already come through over 3700 prophecies., so we can rest assure that these things are definitely going to play out… what sucks is it says Israel will almost be obliterated again, and they will be pushed to the south the remaining survivors, they will finally cry out. We are sorry and recognize Jesus….. that will be glorious, but it just is a very sad thing that it has to take that much punishment for them to wake up. I’m surprised that after the holocaust the entire synagogue didn’t realize that maybe it was God trying to tell them that they made a mistake about Jesus. We have had a lot of of cohen conversions from the synagogue to people believing in Jesus., but just not as many as you would think. And that is also a result of nobody reading the New Testament. Like if my rabbi Cousin didn’t totally reject, the new testament basically brainwash us and his congregation and everybody else in this in the God to believe that the book was worthless, and Don don’t even bother opening it… like if we just peaked at the New Testament… if we read Isaiah…. Everybody would’ve been like hey! Hey rabbi! Sermon on the mountain is Isaiah! and the thing is the rabbis study all religions, so my cousin Rabbi seigel absolutely knew about Isaiah and the New Testament and he just didn’t mention it. Oh, by the way, my cousin, the rabbi had a nervous breakdown in the middle of a service he was in Brooklyn, New York around 1979 Ish, and he stopped the sermon, and told his congregation that it was all a lie, he could not go on teaching the Torah, he didn’t believe it, he walked out, then he packed his bags and left his wife and children for some time and went on some weird vegan desert sabbatical where he was in the wilderness for a couple years and came back with a big beard, dark tan and was able to stand on his head and hands for hours and yoga positions upside down… and he showed up at the house with his own wooden bowls and spoons that he made with his hands… sort of lost his mind and became this weird earth person like John the Baptist except he wasn’t baptizing anybody…. Hahah oh well.
Fantastic! Love so much of this, especially your vulnerable confessions. No. 7 is soooo important!! Thank you for writing (and thinking) like you do!!
Hi Mike. Thank you for the comment and compliment. It's always nice to hear feedback and perspective from the receiving side of my essays.
#7 was one of the lessons I learned after reading the 4 Agreements and it really changed my life. It's still not always easy to experience being treated certain ways, especially by people we love - but having the understanding that it's about them and not me, makes it a heck of alot easier to handle and process....and FORGIVE. :)
A lot of these points resonated. I'm a big fan of accountability because I think it gives me back my power. It's within my power to change it. So I really like those who emphasize personal accountability. Nice job with this one!