{"id":4956,"date":"2024-09-06T04:38:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T10:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/?page_id=4956"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:17:31","slug":"following-jesus-out-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/jesus\/following-jesus-out-of-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Jesus Out of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes from Ross Nichols teaching with the same title <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E_3cEdZ0GVw?si=v5cadNzS5GMCsKRR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. 99% of the text on this page is from my transcript of his video. The outline formatting is mine to put his supporting comments into a format I can remember&#8230;hopefully. This is a very profound teaching. Everywhere in the text below where &#8220;I&#8221; makes a statement the &#8220;I&#8221; is Ross as he deserves the credit for the knowledge and insights. For anyone reading this page, please know I included so much here as an easy reference to help me learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Following Jesus Out of Christianity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E_3cEdZ0GVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The text presented in the Bible in my new search revealed something interesting. It presented a different Jesus than the Jesus that was proclaimed in the pulpits across the land.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jesus of Nazareth didn&#8217;t attend church on Sunday, he worshiped in a synagogue on the seventh-day Sabbath.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus didn&#8217;t declare that the law was done away with, abrogated, annulled, superseded, nailed to the cross. Jesus proclaimed that the law, or the Torah as he would put it, was eternal, that it would endure as long as heaven and earth endured.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus didn&#8217;t have a New Testament. Some of these are pretty obvious, it would seem, but they need to be said. Jesus never read the New Testament. It didn&#8217;t exist for decades after he was already dead. This New Testament wasn&#8217;t around. For Jesus, the Scriptures are what make up what Christians today call the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh as it&#8217;s called by the Jewish people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ross&#8217; Insights, Questions, and Perspectives:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What DID Jesus Do rather than WWJD?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How did he live his life? What were the festivals he kept? What were the holidays he kept? Were they the same as Christian holidays? What type of food did he eat? How did he dress? I wanted to know everything because I really wanted to walk as Jesus did. I was attempting to conform myself to the image of one that I had set out to follow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I read 1 John 2:6 in one of my readings through the text, it really had an impact on me, and I&#8217;ll paraphrase. If we abide in Christ, as the text says, we ought to walk even as Jesus walked. But again, what does that mean?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Hebrew\/Aramaic, the word Jesus is reported to have said was <mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Halakh<\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">,<\/mark> &#8220;to walk&#8221;. So walk after me is what he said. Other scriptures about walking are:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 John 2:6, if we abide in Christ, we ought to walk even as Jesus did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genesis 12, this is the report of the call from God to Avram, Avram at the time, later to be called Abraham. But Avram is in Ur of the Chaldees. [See <a href=\"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/6927-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this post <\/a>Ross recommended for where Abraham really came from, Ur Kasdim]. And in Genesis chapter 12, the English says, &#8220;Now the Lord said to Avram or Abram, go from your country and your kindred and your father&#8217;s house to a land that I will show you.&#8221; And then he gets into various promises that he makes to Abram should he choose to do what God told him to do. Of course, you know the story. He does make the right choice. But in the Hebrew, here it says go. But in the Hebrew, it&#8217;s the words lekh leka. [lek lakah, my phonics] in Hebrew means &#8220;to walk for yourself&#8221;. Abram is told to walk for yourself to a place that I&#8217;ll show you. And as we know, Abram represents the father of all the faithful. And again, should we not do likewise? &#8230; I began to realize that in order to follow Jesus, to truly fulfill my commitment, I had to get a glimpse of him. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I had to understand him in his own time, in his own culture.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not only do we have to look back across time, we have to look past myths. We have to push through the crowds. And in many ways, we have to silence the voices, the confusing voices. How many different views of Jesus are being proclaimed? Well, for me, I wanted to go with what the text said. And again, quite often, the text is at variance with what is popularly taught and preached across the land. Like Abram, we have to leave our place of familiarity in many ways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeremiah 6:16, one of my favorite passages. &#8220;Thus says the Lord,&#8221; this version says, &#8220;Stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient paths where the good way is and walk in it and find rest for your souls.&#8221; It&#8217;s a beautiful passage. It&#8217;s an appeal to wherever you are to look for the good way among the ancient paths. I wanted to walk in it. From the place, from these ancient paths, I wanted to search out that good way and walk in it and find rest for my soul.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But to walk as Jesus walked, to walk that narrow way, we have to make some choices. These are the choices as I understand them:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We have to choose the faith of Jesus over the faith about him.<\/span> And I see a distinction between the religion of Jesus, or, if you prefer, the faith of Jesus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How is it that he lived religiously? What was his faith as defined in the scriptures? And does that or does that not agree with modern interpretations according to tradition? And I think that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we have to choose the faith of Jesus over the faith about him.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We have to give weight to the Bible of Jesus against the Bible about him<\/span>. We have to look back to the scriptures that Jesus used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have to go there to find the source of our faith and not rely on tradition and various other texts that are written about the Jesus that we think we know. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most important is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we have to choose the God of Jesus over the fact that people have attributed deity to Jesus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My faith today is solely derived and based on and in the text of the Bible that Jesus read, the Hebrew Bible called the Old Testament by Christians. Again, a term that Jesus would find offensive. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My God is not Jesus of Nazareth, but it is the same God that Jesus of Nazareth prayed to and worshiped and spoke of and called his followers to look to.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>We begin with the Scriptures of Jesus.<\/strong> The Scriptures of Jesus are, in the Jewish Bible, broken into three distinct groups. The Law, or the Torah, the Prophets, or the Nevi&#8217;im, and the Writings, or the Ketuvim.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jesus referred to this three-part Bible in Luke 24:44, said it slightly different, but he mentioned the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms. Now, this agrees with a Dead Sea Scroll, 4QMMT also retains this ancient description of the three-part Bible of the first century. In that particular scroll, it refers to the Sefer Moshe, the Scroll of Moses, the Scrolls of the Prophets, and the works of David. So, that&#8217;s the Scripture that I call my Bible. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Scripture is the same as the Scripture of Jesus.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every Sabbath in the synagogue, they read a portion from the Law and the Prophets. Now, this practice goes back in a different form, all the way back to Deuteronomy 31:10-11.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">in the description of this video, there is a document that I&#8217;ve put together that contains that ancient cycle of readings. I encourage you to get that and to begin to follow that cycle, especially those who want to walk as Jesus did, because it was this, called the triennial cycle of readings, that was practiced in the time of Jesus in the land of Israel.<\/mark><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Examples in the Christian writings of the reading of the Law and the Prophets in the synagogue\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Luke 4:16, it says, And he came, Jesus, and he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the Sabbath day. [This particular passage, a scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Jesus, and he read from that scroll, rolled it up, gave it back to the attendant. It&#8217;s interesting that according to the cycle of readings from the three-and-a-half-year cycle I mentioned, this particular prophet reading is one of the prophet readings.]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>at Acts chapter 13:15. And by the way, this is where Paul and a company are in a synagogue, and it says in verse 15, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to Paul and his company, saying, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it. And then Paul stood up and addressed the congregation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after the reading of the law and the prophets, the Torah and the prophets.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Acts 15:21, it says the following. [By the way, this is a particular meeting of an assembly in Jerusalem, and this is James. James, the brother of Jesus] in verse 21, after declaring what the non-Jews who are coming to faith should practice, he says the following, &#8220;<em>for from every generation Moses has in every city those who preach him, for he has read every Sabbath in the synagogues.<\/em>&#8221; It&#8217;s saying to non-Jews even who are coming to faith that they are going to pick up the law and the prophets because Moses has preached every Sabbath in the synagogue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The early church, if you will, wasn&#8217;t a church. <strong>Two things a New Testament church didn&#8217;t have when it began, a New Testament and a church<\/strong>. They were meeting in the synagogue on the Sabbath, and it was Moses who was being preached.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Luke chapter 16, there&#8217;s a parable about a rich man and a beggar by the name of Lazarus. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luke 16:29. But Abraham said, they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. He said, no, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they&#8217;ll repent. <strong>He said to him, if they don&#8217;t hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should be raised from the dead.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christianity has focused on the story of the resurrection.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jesus, on the other hand, focused on placing the emphasis on listening to the words of Moses and the prophets. Something that tragically modern day followers of Jesus no longer hear.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>he says of his opponents, read Matthew 15, and Matthew 23, which are very strong against his opponents. And one of the things that he says is they err because they don&#8217;t know the scriptures. By scriptures, he means his scriptures, the law, the prophets and the Psalms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>They&#8217;re not preaching commands from Moses. The criticism that Jesus has is they&#8217;ve made null the commandments of God by traditions of men. It&#8217;s their commandments that are a burden, not God&#8217;s commandments.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can you imagine a God who would give commandments that you couldn&#8217;t keep, that he would then judge you for? How many times does Jesus say, go and sin no more? If sinning is a violation of the commandments, then is it possible? These are the thoughts that I had. You see, the opponents of Jesus, the religious leaders primarily, had not preached the commandments of God. They were proclaiming the traditions of men.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To Jesus, get this, even eternal life was dependent upon keeping the commandments.<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Matthew 19:16-26, Mark 10:17-30, Luke 10:25-30, Luke 18:18-30, all give versions of a story where Jesus is asked, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Now in churches across the world, people preach about eternal life and how it is that one acquires eternal life. And very few will give their congregants what Jesus said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luke 10:25 says, Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.&nbsp;\u201c<em>Teacher,\u201d he said, \u201cwhat must I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d&nbsp;26 He said to him, \u201cWhat is written in the law? What do you read there?\u201d&nbsp;27 He answered, \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.\u201d&nbsp;28 And he said to him, <strong>\u201cYou have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew 19:16. And behold, one came up to him saying, teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life? And he said to him, why do you ask me about what is good? Another gospel says, why do you call me good? One there is, who is God. But if you would enter life, keep the commandments. That&#8217;s not what modern-day followers of Jesus are told. <strong>Once again, Jesus appeals to Deuteronomy 6:4-5 as being the greatest of the commandments.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Re: Sacrifices &#8211; By the way, I should add that when the young man said that this is greater than all burnt offerings, Jesus had something to say about that as well. In Matthew 9:13 and 12:7, Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6. Jesus makes the point that Hosea said, &#8220;God desires mercy&#8221; or the Hebrew <mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">chesed v\u2019lo zevakh<\/span><\/mark>, and not sacrifice. So what does God need? Sacrifice. Does he want sacrifices?]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re: LORD vs Lord &#8211; Now, who is the God of Deuteronomy 6:4? In Hebrew, Shema Yisrael, we say Adonai, but in Hebrew, it&#8217;s the name of God, the four-letter name of God. In some translations, it&#8217;s Yahweh or Jehovah or Yehovah, various other versions of the name. But the point is that this is a name. It&#8217;s not just Lord. Now, the confusion comes in because in the Hebrew, the very name of the four-letter name of God, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, appears almost 7,000 times. But in English translations, it&#8217;s represented by capital L-O-R-D. So, what happens is you see verses where it says Lord, particularly in the New Testament, and people say, well, Jesus is Lord, therefore, Jesus is God. <strong>But that equation doesn&#8217;t work because there is a distinction to be made by capital L-O-R-D in the English, which means God, Jehovah, and Lord, which means Lord or Master.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you look that up in the Hebrew, you&#8217;re going to see that that is the divine name that God said to my Master, is a better way to translate it. But, the confusion came in. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But I would say that to equate Jesus with God and make him part of a trinity, which, by the way, is not a biblical word, is a violation of the central tenet of biblical faith and goes contrary to the religion of Jesus and the teaching of Jesus. <\/span>And yet the deity of Jesus, as it&#8217;s often called, has become a test for orthodoxy and one who does not accept that Jesus, in some way, form, or fashion, is God. This belief, if you don&#8217;t embrace that, you&#8217;re considered a heretic. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But I&#8217;d rather stand with Jesus. I maintain that Jesus had a God. The New Testament talks about this God. It&#8217;s called the God and Father of Jesus. Now, who is the God and Father of Jesus? That&#8217;s my God. I want to have the same God that Jesus had.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In John chapter 20:17, this is according to the text after the resurrection, Jesus said to her, after he&#8217;s called Rabboni, which is an Aramaic for rabbi, Jesus said to her, don&#8217;t hold me, for I&#8217;ve not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Jesus has a God and there&#8217;s one God. And therefore, that&#8217;s the God I serve. That&#8217;s the God I worship. I worship the God of Jesus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Romans 15:6. &#8211; <em>that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/em> Who is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 Corinthians 1:3. &#8211; <em>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.<\/em> That&#8217;s the God I&#8217;m searching for.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 Peter 1:3. &#8211; <em>&#8220;Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!&#8221;<\/em> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In fact, there are 14 times in the New Testament that it refers to the God and Father of Jesus. There&#8217;s one God. Jesus had a God.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is the God that Jesus prayed to in John 17:3.  Jesus is praying, he says to God, that they might know you, the one true God. That Jesus is referring to the one true God. Jesus also said in John 14:28, the Father is greater than us. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John 6:38 &#8211; Jesus came not to do his will, but the will of the one who sent him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew 24:36, we read that Jesus tells people that I don&#8217;t know the answer to that. Only the Father knows. <em>34 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.&nbsp;35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 36 But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,&nbsp;but only the Father.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So, this doctrine about co-equal partnership in the deity, it&#8217;s just not biblical.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ross&#8217;s response to those who use passages to support Jesus as Diety\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John 10:30 says the Father and I are one. And those who proclaim the deity of Jesus say this, you see there, Jesus and his Father are one. But did you know that in the same gospel in John chapter 17, Jesus prays that they, the followers might be one, even as he and the Father are one. So, is Jesus saying that the followers also become God? Or, is he saying that whatever that oneness, that unity that he has with his Father, that he prays that that same oneness with the Father would be shared by all who follow him? That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s saying.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re:  John 14:9, where Jesus says, <em>if you&#8217;ve seen me, you&#8217;ve seen the Father<\/em>. And people say, well, there you go. If you&#8217;ve seen Jesus, you&#8217;ve seen the Father. Ergo, therefore, Jesus and the Father are the same. But in the same gospel in John 1:18, it says very clearly, no one has seen God. What do we do with that?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>those cases where they took up stones to stone him and the charge was blasphemy? So quite often I&#8217;ve heard ministers and Christians who will say, but, but see that they knew in that time that he was claiming to be God. John 10:31-39 is an excellent example about how they&#8217;re confused about the language. He says, why are you taking up stones to stone me? And they say very clearly because you being a man, make yourself God. And he said, wait a minute. Did I say that? He says, does not scripture say, and then he quotes Psalm 82. He says this, he said, doesn&#8217;t scripture say ye are God&#8217;s all of you. So he&#8217;s making a point. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jesus says, I&#8217;m using biblical language about my role, but it&#8217;s language, which does not just apply to me. The oneness I have with the Father can be yours as well.<\/strong><\/span> Read that in John chapter 10.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Part of the problem in understanding the words of Jesus, they rightly said in John 7:46, I should say part rightly, <em>no man ever spoke like this<\/em>. In other words, his manner of speech, he didn&#8217;t speak like the scribes. He spoke with authority. He was tied into the text. When he spoke, he spoke differently. They said, never has anyone spoke like this, but several passages in John&#8217;s gospel, John chapter 7:16, chapter 8:28, chapter 12:49, chapter 14:10 and verse 24.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus makes this very clear. He says the words that I&#8217;m speaking, they&#8217;re not mine. When Jesus says things that people misunderstood, they&#8217;re not his words. They&#8217;re the words of the one who sent him. <strong>He is speaking on behalf of God. And this fits very closely to what we find in the biblical narratives of the prophets.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scholars call this the intrusion of <strong>divine speech<\/strong>. For instance, if you read Deuteronomy chapter 29:1-6, clearly Moses is addressing the children of Israel. Clearly, it&#8217;s Moses speaking about how God had saved the children of Israel. But when you get to verse six, it switches from the third person to the first person. And Moses, still speaking, says that you might know that I am the Lord your God. Read it. Carefully read it. Deuteronomy 29:1-6. Moses is not saying he&#8217;s God. What Moses is saying, he&#8217;s speaking, and then God takes over and speaks through him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ross&#8217; Concluding Paragraphs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>More than half a century ago, I decided to follow Jesus. As my faith grew and as I searched for a deeper relationship, I wanted to know, what does it mean to really follow Jesus, to walk as he did? And it&#8217;s that desire that brought me to this place.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Today, my faith is the faith of Jesus. Today, my Bible is the Bible of Jesus. And today, my God is the God of Jesus. You see, I followed Jesus out of Christianity. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I followed Jesus from a religion about Jesus to a faith of Jesus. And it&#8217;s my prayer that if you claim to follow Jesus, that you will carefully consider these words and that you&#8217;ll do the same. Follow Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Ross Nichols teaching with the same title here. 99% of the text on this page is from my transcript of his video. The outline formatting is mine to put his supporting comments into a format I can remember&#8230;hopefully. 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