(Name omitted)@aol.com wrote:
I'm not trying to be mean, however these questions are honest and sincere not vicious. I understand about Yahweh and often times refer to my NJB and have wondered about the name Jesus and why we don't call Him Yahsua. I came upon your site researching Babylon. So if you would please answer my questions I would greatly appreciate it. What faith are you and what started you on this study? How do you know that you're not going astray, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine? Where did you begin and whose books did you trust? Thank You, (Name omitted) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hello (Name omitted),
Thank you for writing. Um, well, I don't see your questions as vicious at all. If you are looking for a denomination to put me in so you have a category to place me in, there isn't one. I would that there was a denomination or group of believers with whom I could fellowship with and take my family to. So far, I haven't found one. We have had fellowship with others in the past. However, some I can not associate myself closely with because of pagan doctrines. Some other people chose not to fellowship with us because of the truth. They obviously don't see it that way but I can't help it. They choose to believe what someone else tells them is the truth.
I am endeavoring to find the truth. I try to approach any subject with an open mind so as not to block out the truth. If one studies anything with their mind already made up all they will do is find reasons to show themselves right. Ya know what I mean?
What started me on this study was a series of things that have been shown to me over a period of many years. It wasn't until about 5 years ago when I read a copy of The Final Reformation by C.J. Koster that all of the things that I had been shown in my spirit, by the Spirit of the Most High, all came together. What I had for so long looked at as them, you know, "those other guys" as being the great whore, suddenly in a matter of hours, I understood what and who the great whore was and who her daughters are. All of the sudden it was no longer "them" but now I understood it was me too. I, in my beliefs, was no doubt in one of the daughters of the great whore spoken of in Revelation 17. Yes, her daughters are spoken of in that it says she is the mother of harlots. All who embrace her pagan doctrines and use the names of pagan deities to refer to our Heavenly Father and His Messiah are walking in her ways. They are made drunk with the wine of her fornication and filled with the names of blasphemy. First, I only studied and believed the "Bible." I was a staunch believer in the idea that the KJV was in fact the preserved word of "God."
Hey, when I first became a believer, I believed exactly what I was told was the truth. My pastor wouldn't lie to me. Would he? Certainly they wouldn't have lied to me in Bible college too? Then I did word studies to find out what the "original" texts said. When what I found was not the same as what the pastor had said was there, it caused me to really start questioning. This was about 25 or 26 years ago. From there I didn't dramatically change my beliefs. However, as I went along, there were things I could not be dogmatic about as I had found them to be questionable at best. Then, after reading The Final Reformation (now re-titled: Come Out Of Her My People) the lights turned on. I began to dig deeper and deeper. I have been searching much on a historical as well as Scriptural basis. If anyone would take the time that I have they can find these things to be true; if they read works by early historians, people who read and witnessed the early manuscripts and wrote comment regarding them; if they do research in the early languages they can find that there are definite mistranslations as well as many pagan doctrines that have been intermingled and added to putrefy the true belief. It is not I who is being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. I am not saying that I am without error. I am however, saying that the world has been deceived by many pagan doctrines and rituals laid out as truth. Most of us are sheep and we follow what we have been told by the "experts." How can we prove them wrong with The Dark Ages to cloak the truth in darkness?
How many of us even know that there were no "J's" in the English alphabet until less than 500 years ago? How many of us know that there is no "J" sound in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin? With no "J" or "J" sound it is impossible for the Father's name to be Jehovah and it is impossible for His Messiah's name to start with a "J" as in "Jesus." How many of us know that if we ask a person who really knows how to speak Greek how to say "Jesus" he will pronounce it, "Ea-Zeus or EE-Zeus?" This means "Hail Zeus." We know who Zeus is and he is not our savior. He is not the Messiah. He is in fact false, a pagan deity, a false "god."
The word "god" is also the name of a pagan mighty one. The Assyrian or Canaanite deity of fortune or luck was named god. It was his proper name. This was and is not just a title. It is the proper name of a false deity. The Scriptures tell us not to let the names of other mighty ones come out of our mouths. How then can we refer to our Heavenly Father, our true and only Mighty One, with or by the name of a pagan deity?
What and where does this leave us? Doesn't it leave us in a position of judging ourselves? I know many want to look at me and judge me and my beliefs. Isn't this more of a time of introspection? This is time for all of us to question tradition. This is time for us to find the truth. Scripture states that those who worship the Father must worship Him in spirit and in truth. If we love Him with all of our hearts but do not know the truth, we can only fulfill half of that equation.
Please consider carefully.
In His love and service, David Allen
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