02-28-2012, 07:09 PM
Hi guys and gals
Thought I should register so I could post here. A little about me. I was Baptized in a Baptist church when I was about 12 years old. Was raised in a Christian environment. I later stopped going to church but mostly out of lack of meaning to me. I joined the service at 19. During my earlier years I began searching for a church that taught the Bible and not specific denominational dogma. I was able to find a coworker that got me into a Faith ministry. I finally felt at home.
Several years and much reading later I eventually stopped going to church again due to church splits, etc. I actually listened to a pastor who I found out later was the 2nd pastor that had been with Jim Bakker back when he was with Jessica Hahn. This was supposed to be a spirit filled church. I was floored.
I mostly considered myself a semi backslidden Christian who is fairly knowledgeable of the word with emphasis on Faith.
Back last April(2011) I met a lady and we began dating. When we first began seeing each other one of the things she told me was she was a Messianic. That word was not familiar to me at least in reference to being a Christian and not Jewish. So I began doing internet searches for information. In the beginning I guess I didn't really find much negative. We spent a lot of time together. She would listen to internet teaching of her favorite "teachers" Some are the well know ones we see mentioned so much Rood, Judah, etc. Initially I didn't really hear all that much bad stuff. But after some time listening with her I began to notice some irregularities. Which we discussed.
One of the first things I noticed was these guys rarely mentioned the New Testament and when they mentioned Jesus(using their terms of course) it was almost in passing.
Fast forward to 5 months into a perfect relationship. All of a sudden I get the message from her that she didn't think she could be with anyone who doesn't keep Sabbath or Torah. Needless to say I was floored. It took a few weeks but we were finally able to get our relationship going again.
However from that point forward my reading, study and research reached epic levels. lol It was then that I found sites like this and JGIG, Hebrew4Christians, fortheloveofthetruth, etc. I think Jgig was the first good one I spent time on. God Bless her. Now I read and read and read and read. I feel like I was getting a new education on a belief system I never knew existed.
Well our relationship lasted until...get this... Jan 1st. Losing her is like a death to me. I am hurting so bad now. But I continue to stay in the word and pray for us. I now know she has been under a lot of false teaching. I do know her heart and know she does want to please God. But, what little I tried, I could not get to her about being a LAW keeper. Many times when we discussed things it would get quite heated. Although we never, ever fought about anything. It was only spiritual things where things got heated. I prayed and prayed for God to give me the words to use. Most of the time however I kept silent because I didn't want to stir up the hornets nest. My girlfriend had been doing this stuff for 10 years. She was very knowledgeable of the Bible. I didn't know how to counter this belief system.
I'm getting ready to send her a small package in the mail which will include some pertinent documents I've found on these sites. One of them will be Sheepwrecked's story. I don't want to overload her but at least give her some foundation on where what she has been hearing might not be totally correct.
Anyway that's my story. ;)
Felix
Thought I should register so I could post here. A little about me. I was Baptized in a Baptist church when I was about 12 years old. Was raised in a Christian environment. I later stopped going to church but mostly out of lack of meaning to me. I joined the service at 19. During my earlier years I began searching for a church that taught the Bible and not specific denominational dogma. I was able to find a coworker that got me into a Faith ministry. I finally felt at home.
Several years and much reading later I eventually stopped going to church again due to church splits, etc. I actually listened to a pastor who I found out later was the 2nd pastor that had been with Jim Bakker back when he was with Jessica Hahn. This was supposed to be a spirit filled church. I was floored.
I mostly considered myself a semi backslidden Christian who is fairly knowledgeable of the word with emphasis on Faith.
Back last April(2011) I met a lady and we began dating. When we first began seeing each other one of the things she told me was she was a Messianic. That word was not familiar to me at least in reference to being a Christian and not Jewish. So I began doing internet searches for information. In the beginning I guess I didn't really find much negative. We spent a lot of time together. She would listen to internet teaching of her favorite "teachers" Some are the well know ones we see mentioned so much Rood, Judah, etc. Initially I didn't really hear all that much bad stuff. But after some time listening with her I began to notice some irregularities. Which we discussed.
One of the first things I noticed was these guys rarely mentioned the New Testament and when they mentioned Jesus(using their terms of course) it was almost in passing.
Fast forward to 5 months into a perfect relationship. All of a sudden I get the message from her that she didn't think she could be with anyone who doesn't keep Sabbath or Torah. Needless to say I was floored. It took a few weeks but we were finally able to get our relationship going again.
However from that point forward my reading, study and research reached epic levels. lol It was then that I found sites like this and JGIG, Hebrew4Christians, fortheloveofthetruth, etc. I think Jgig was the first good one I spent time on. God Bless her. Now I read and read and read and read. I feel like I was getting a new education on a belief system I never knew existed.
Well our relationship lasted until...get this... Jan 1st. Losing her is like a death to me. I am hurting so bad now. But I continue to stay in the word and pray for us. I now know she has been under a lot of false teaching. I do know her heart and know she does want to please God. But, what little I tried, I could not get to her about being a LAW keeper. Many times when we discussed things it would get quite heated. Although we never, ever fought about anything. It was only spiritual things where things got heated. I prayed and prayed for God to give me the words to use. Most of the time however I kept silent because I didn't want to stir up the hornets nest. My girlfriend had been doing this stuff for 10 years. She was very knowledgeable of the Bible. I didn't know how to counter this belief system.
I'm getting ready to send her a small package in the mail which will include some pertinent documents I've found on these sites. One of them will be Sheepwrecked's story. I don't want to overload her but at least give her some foundation on where what she has been hearing might not be totally correct.
Anyway that's my story. ;)
Felix
