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Since we each must give an account for ourselves and ideally should be able to explain one’s faith, I have wrestled with some difficult questions over the years all of which cumulated in an eye-opening year of 2020 vision. This, like all my thought-provoking articles, is not an attack against an individual person, but rather it is exposing what I now see as a false ideology called Christianity, specifically what God labels as idolatry, and moreover, an invitation to dig into the Holy Scriptures for oneself while pondering, praying, and pursuing such critical concepts.
Naturally, when people can’t explain or can’t overcome such objections, they become angry at the person exposing error or at the very least challenging their belief, not realizing the person, such as myself, typically is motivated by love to do so. After all, iron sharpens iron. Nevertheless, I understand the mentality, passion, and emotion of the Christian, as I, too, was appalled and even angry upon learning such truths below – first, at the person or people sharing, and then, more appropriately my anger became directed at Christianity or idolatry in general for propagating such blatant and now obvious to me fallacies. Though I readily admit that I know not all of God’s truth, for none of us can, today, I am in complete peace (Psalm 119:165), more in love with God and others than ever, and daily learning to surrender to God, His will, and His Spirit of Holiness. It has been a long process of truth-seeking that eventually led me to the LORD when I thought I would be leading others to Him! You could say it’s been a journey of flip-flopped faith, though certainly not my intention when I picked the name “Flip Flop Fellowship” for my ministry. God clearly has a sense of all-knowing humor. It is my prayer these questions, as well as my various articles and testimony, spurn you, dear student of the Bible, to continue to seek Abba Father and His will for you with all your being and by continually comparing and examining your will and theology to His as defined in His Holy Scriptures. But I both confess and warn, that it is not easy to lay our idols down.
As always, much love, shalom, and blessings!
~Carrie Renee, 4/23/2024 (Passover)
P.S. Please note Scriptures referenced from the Tanakh or what you would call the “Old Testament” might be one verse off as sometimes the verse number differs in the Jewish and Christian Bibles. But I did my best to cite passages in the Tanakh using the Christian Bible for your easy reference. When quoting Scripture, I often used well-known Christian translations such as NKJV, NIV, NASB, etc. so you could see these truths in translations you would recognize.
Herein is a free, downloadable/printable Bible study for you to prayerfully consider.
