Won’t get too detailed so I don’t accidentally dox myself or something, but I’ve been considering my life up to this point, and I can’t help but feel I definitely might’ve wound up on the wrong side of history if divine intervention and my own intuition hadn’t gotten in the way.
I know people who work at Neuralink, Facebook, Google, IBM, etc. My college was pretty successful for job placement at big name companies
I’ve been in some of the “financial centers and think tanks” of the world as a student. I was presented with opportunities to engage with their work, especially toward the end of my undergraduate career. Most of these people made me uneasy; at the time, I couldn’t place my finger on why. But I always felt the urge to keep those places at arms distance.
As a gifted kid, I feel incredibly blessed to have gotten out of public school relatively unscathed. I feel incredibly lucky I didn’t join the status quo in college despite the pressure to conform.
This refusal to conform is definitely giving me some roadblocks now that I’m trying to get started in my career, but it does feel like I’ve dodged many bullets on the journey. And I’m glad I’m not part of the hive mind like most of my peers.
Anyone else have the same experience?
Edit to say: thanks to everyone who has commented! Really appreciate knowing others have similar journeys.
Non are worthy. We all fall short. Only by the grace of God are we saved. What your feeling is a humble heart. Truly a beautiful thing. Keep mediating on this thought. It's truly something we all feel yet in different ways. Jesus is just awesome like that.
To get more specific about your post. I was never behind enemy lines in the way you were but I did dodge many bullets and think often about how I could have easily been those still asleep
All are worthy, no-one falls short in the end. Thinking you're a filthy sinner since birth is cabal propaganda. They corrupted the Bible like they did everything else.
A few minutes of research on the topic of ancient manuscripts will prove to you beyond any doubt that your statement is wrong.
No serious person even disputes the issue.
It is irrefutable proof that you can hold in your hand and see with your eyes.
If you have the interest to do so.
I've spent the better part of the past year doing exactly that. I still don't read ancient Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic yet (except a few words), so I can't make as good of arguments as I would like, but the evidence I have seen shows very clearly that the bible is not what it proclaims to be.
How do you rectify that the bible isn't the same for each church? For example, the protestant version has 66 books (interesting number). The Catholic Church has 72. The final edit (72 book version) was created in 325 AD and revised in 383 AD at the various conventions, from which we got "creeds" which every good Christian must memorize and restate. These creeds were designed to nullify arguments, because there was a great deal of argument from the people and the rulers couldn't allow that. It was so not allowed in fact, that the beliefs of the Church were formally stated and written into law (including what was, prior to those laws, the controversial belief in the Trinity) in order to make everyone in the empire believe the same thing, thus uniting them, making them easier to rule. The Bible that is commonly espoused as "the whole truth" was literally the manifesto and founding document for the birth of the Holy Roman Empire. They left out over half the books of the bible, many of which are referenced in the bible we got, but not included. I wonder why...
The OT (written by people who believed they were the Chosen Race and that Israel was their "Promised Land" by God) and the NT don't even talk about the same God. Hell, even the OT has numerous Gods in it, all translated into English as just "God".
The Jews weren't even monotheistic. On the contrary, they believed in a whole pantheon of gods (that's what "Elohim" means, one of the words translated as "God" in English versions). They just believed that YHWH was their Lord God. Other areas of the world had other assigned patron gods. "Thou shalt put no other gods before me." Because there were other gods, but he was their Lord (ruler).
If you think there is no controversy on the subject of interpretation from original texts, I suggest you have never looked at anything that does not support your confirmation bias. There is so much out there. If you would like me to point you in the right direction I would be happy to do so.
You are right in pointing out the sinister count of 66 books in protestant canon.
But... How did you arrive at 72 books in the Catholic bible? Pretty easy to confirm that there are 73.
Once the canon was determined, and until the protestant revolution, all of Christianity had the following 7 books, in addition to the 66 the protestants claim:
Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon (Also known simply as “Wisdom”), Sirach (Also known as “The Wisdom of Sirach” or sometimes “Ecclesiasticus”), Baruch
Good 14 minute explanation by Jimmy Akin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdI-kFbg3Y
Oh my, another guy who watched a half of a youtube video and became the preeminent scholar on the subject worldwide.
That is because the Roman church includes the Apocrypha - works outside the accepted canon of inspired scripture, but are not in conflict with christian doctrine.
The Protestants only include canonical texts, but don't proscribe or even discourage their reading.
^TOTAL HOGWASH^ - what the hell are you talking about?
And beyond that, your comment was about THE BIBLE, not the Holy Roman Empire. I fully agree that the Roman Church or more specifically the Vatican - then and now - was and is Antichrist, which has busied itself from day one to the present in slaughtering every christian it could get it's hands on. And that has continued enmasse at least through WWII with the mass slaughter hundreds of thousands of Serbs who refused to convert to the Roman Church. A Roman Catholic Priest was hanged for his part in the genocide after the war.
You need to distinguish in your mind the difference in The Roman Church and THE BIBLE. Catholics freely admit to NOT FOLLOWING THE BIBLE. They follow their TRADITION, which they consider equal to Inspired Scripture.
What does Jesus say in Scripture about such behavior?
Up until the 1960s all Roman Catholics were PROHIBITED from reading Scripture under the penalty of mortal sin for doing so. A special dispensation could be had from a priest to allow it, but the reading must be in the presence of the priest.
DO NOT CONFLATE ROMAN CATHOLICISM WITH SCRIPTURE. They have nothing in common.
^Do^you^ever^get^tired^of^being^wrong^?
Thanks for your offer to point me in the right direction, but your massive experience of "the better part of a year," isn't as intimidating as you apparently think. And my suspicion from your near total lack of information and understanding is it is most probably that you watched nearly a whole youtube video on the subject, before appointing yourself supreme expert.
I have the better part of several decades of investigation behind me.
So, thanks anyway.