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I am not religious.
I am in fellowship with Jesus the Christ – a Christian if you will.
I am not religious.
Religion is a man-made system of man-made rules, activities, traditions, morality, and dogma placed on top of, in addition to, or in place of revealed truth.
Religion is a system used to judge those who are not in compliance with it, and to empower those who make it their profession. Religion is used by those in power to mentally, emotionally, intellectually, and/or physically control others.
Religion is rooted in pride and self-delusion. The more religious you are, the less likely it is that you will go to Heaven.
I am not religious.
Jesus of Nazareth was not religious. His messages challenged, confronted, and refuted the religious leaders of His day.
When Jesus was on earth, the only people He had a problem with were religious. The people who conspired to have Him executed were religious.
I am not religious.
I am only interested in one thing – understanding and revealing truth.
And if the Judaeo-Christian philosophy is true, then it should conform to and reflect the philosophical and objective rules of truth.
I believe it does. This blog gives my reasons (unfortunately you’ll have to endure my derisive sense of humor as well).
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Good site. I’ve enjoyed reading it. I especially like the fact that you are not religious.
Telling people that and that I hate religion is one of the small pleasures I have in life. Blogging on PP is another.
Thank you Melvin. That means a lot to me. I’ve been reading your blog for several years after finding the link on John Coleman’s site. You do a great job of warning people about the religious deception that permeates the pulpits. And as you can probably imagine, I appreciate your sense of humor. Tragically, some of the funniest parts of your blog are the comments by the sheep. I admire your restraint when you respond to them.
Hello,
I understand you are interested in understanding truth. Without an understanding of beginings there can be no absolute standard for understanding anything. What you end up with is a cacophony of relativism from folks who use it as a way to deny the very facts they know are true. The truth is the truth whether we believe it or not.
You say you are not religious – I assert you are. Religion by definition is, among other definitions – a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. I see from your dedicated blogging that you most certainly are religous. You want truth apart from the Jesus you claim was not religous. If the Bible is to be believed – it says a great deal about how religious Jesus actually was.
Jesus fulfilled ALL that He was sent to do. He commanded His disciples to make disciples-students-followers-learners, baptize and to teach them ALL that He had commanded them. Sounds like Jesus was pretty religous from that account in Matthew 28:19-20. The simple truht is that religion is man’s response to Gods’ Word. All humanity is religous in some way. Some religously reject The God of the Bible by using the excuse that Christians have abused the very things they were given to worship God. That is true. But just because there is abuse does not negate the obligation to worship the One true God on His terms and not ours. The truth of the matter is that no one after The Fall can or desires to worship God in the manner He deserves. It’s only until The Spirit of God (promised by Jesus to his people) opens blind eyes and renews dead hearts that our man-made religion (in whatever form we desire) is replaced by true worship of the living God who sent His Son to die to give us that gift of eternal life we did not even know or care we needed.
Just a thought…
Hello Ivin,
Thank you for reading the blog and for sharing your thoughts.
Keep in mind that I specifically defined “religion” as man-made dogmatic systems. How ever we define religion (or any other practice created by intelligent beings) we can conclude that it either came from man, or from God (the only known sources of intelligence). If religion is broadly defined as anything we do in service to what we consider divine, then Jesus was no more religious than Mohammad. That is why I strictly exclude those things inspired by the God of the Judeo-Christian Bible from “religion”. Jesus certainly followed and fulfilled the Mosaic Law perfectly, but the Law did not come from man, it came from God and thus does not fit religion as I defined it. Furthermore, since I believe that Jesus is God (and I will give my reasons for this belief in a mid-April post), all of His commandments to Christians also fall under the category of God-inspired.
I actually find the phrase “truth apart from Jesus” to be oxymoronic. Jesus IS truth. He is the First Cause of truth. Any honest search for truth will lead you to God; that is actually the underlying theme of this entire blog. If you are referring to the idea that I tend to lead with human logic and reason before going to the Bible, then I understand how this method can seem unorthodox. However my point is to show that the Biblical concept of God is not divorced from logic and reason. Logical deduction and Biblical faith are not mutually exclusive. Moreover, Romans 1:18-20 makes it clear that even if you have never seen a Bible, God holds you accountable to know Him based solely on human understanding of cosmology. This blog leads with Romans 1:20, then follows with 2 Timothy 3:16.
Thank you again for your comments. Please keep reading and let me know what you think as the blog progresses.
Ed
Ed,
Nice work. I’m a long time reader of Modeling God and saw the link there the other day. Thankfully I was able to catch it early enough to read everything rather quickly.
Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading more.
Tom
Thanks Tom. Please keep reading and let me know what you think.
Ed
Hey Ed. Love this site. Miss you both. Hope to see you both soon. Love to you both. Sandy & Sharon Skolnick
Thanks Sandy! Hope to see you too soon!
Hey, I love this blog. I would go back and access the previous pages and create “read next” links consistently on every post, so that someone can easily go from beginning to end.
Also, in one of the first posts, I believe you said something about man having free will but God and Satan not having free will. The idea has intrigued me ever since I read it. Would you please expand on that?
Thank you
Sure. In general terms, free will means “you can do whatever you want”. I define it more specifically as “the ability to act outside of your nature”. God’s nature is that he is always and completely right and just. God cannot be unrighteous and unjust. If He was, He would technically no longer be God. Therefore God cannot act outside of His nature. Therefore, God does not have free will. He can’t just do “anything He wants”. He can’t do evil, and He can’t lie because those things are unrighteous. God can’t even prevent sin in most cases because it would be unjust.
For example, lets say a man decides to kill his wife and goes to buy a gun. One might ask why God doesn’t just stop him right there and punish him? Because the man is not a murderer yet so it would be unjust to do anything to him. In fact, up until the moment he pulls the trigger, he is still not a murderer and has a chance to change his mind. If God did anything to interfere, it would not give the man the opportunity to NOT commit the murder.
Man’s nature (generally speaking) is that he is NOT always and completely right and just. However he has the ability to choose to act outside that nature by following God (who of course IS always and completely right and just) and doing His will.
Satan also does not have a free will. His original nature was to reflect/represent the glory of God. After he fell, that nature was warped in that he still wants to have the glory, but since he is separated from, he wants the glory of God, WITHOUT God. He wants to be worshiped. That has been his desire from day one and its never changed (there is more detail on this in the “Know Thy Enemy” series that I just finished).
I hope and answered your questions. Let me know if you need any additional clarification. I’m glad you like the blog. PLEASE tell others about it. I’ll also go through the pages and add links to the next posts as appropriate. Thanks for pointing that out.
Hi, I was introduced to this site by one of my friends and let Me declare I am so thankful to him. Your site is so clear and easy to understand, best thing is you explain things with My understanding, You may believe this or not but I eagerly wait for your new post. keep up the good work May God bless You with Book of Your Own, hey I would also like to connect You on FB, please let Me know i that could be a possibilty. Vaibhav Patole sonluawerr.wordpress.com
Thank you so much for the encouraging words! I’m curious, who is the friend that turned you on to the blog?
Thank you.
Dear E. Mabrie, after listening to your podcast for the 1st time, I saw a number of errors you made. One of the biggest is presumption. Presuming something to be true just because a Christian scientist says it is true is not wise. To assume, also, that when the Scriptures state a fact as a current condition of the world, weather wise, does not mean that is how it stayed until the flood. If you lived back then and observed a continuing steady weather condition., then you would have a foot to stand on.
I also read that your April 3, 2010 response to a reader of your blog. Let it be known, you wrote your blog in English, Not Mabrie-a language. Therefore you do not get the privilege to redefine English words like “religious”. We all are the readers of your blog. we understand the dictionary ,so we expect you to follow those definitions as well. That would be the kind thing to do. And from the perspective of Yeshua, do all things out of love for people. 1 Cor. 13. Try starting there and ending there. There is more. But I want to let you know, that I spend time with an Autistic young man came up with some pretty presumptive viewpoints about theories. When I asked for the sources, he sent me the link to you podcast. Remember those who put themselves in the place of “teacher” shall be held doubly accountable. Your zeal outweighs your accuracy.
Thank you for your comments Ronald. My responses are in bold below.
Dear E. Mabrie, after listening to your podcast for the 1st time, I saw a number of errors you made. One of the biggest is presumption. Presuming something to be true just because a Christian scientist says it is true is not wise. Can you show me where I presumed something was true ONLY because a Christian scientist said it was? If you’re speaking of the series on creation, I am certain that I used multiple scientific sources, many of whom were secular.
To assume, also, that when the Scriptures state a fact as a current condition of the world, weather wise, does not mean that is how it stayed until the flood. If you lived back then and observed a continuing steady weather condition., then you would have a foot to stand on. Were YOU alive during the pre-flood era? If not, then wouldn’t your view on the weather at that time also be presumptuous? Is my Bible-based view of the climate more presumptuous than yours? if so, why?
Let it be known, you wrote your blog in English, Not Mabrie-a language. Therefore you do not get the privilege to redefine English words like “religious”. Actually, since different dictionaries define “religion” differently, it would be intellectually dishonest for me to use that term WITHOUT defining it. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have a noncontradictory definition for what I mean when I use it. People who use words without defining them are dishonest. When I talk about “religion”, you now know EXACTLY what I mean. Under the rules of rhetoric, that is more important than whether or not my definition conforms to whichever dictionary you happen to be using.
We all are the readers of your blog. we understand the dictionary ,so we expect you to follow those definitions as well. Who is “we”? Do you presume to speak for all my readers and listeners? Doesn’t that seem a bit presumptuous on your part?
And from the perspective of Yeshua, do all things out of love for people. 1 Cor. 13. What is your definition of “love”? Is it the same as the Biblical definition?
I spend time with an Autistic young man came up with some pretty presumptive viewpoints about theories. When I asked for the sources, he sent me the link to you podcast. You keep referencing presumption. What is your definition of presumption? It may be that we define it differently. MY definition of presumption is assuming facts without evidence. Whenever I give a fact, I offer evidence (whether or not you AGREE with the evidence is irrelevant as far as the definition of presumption is concerned). If you find a fact I gave where I neglected to give the evidence, let me know and I will gladly provide it.
Remember those who put themselves in the place of “teacher” shall be held doubly accountable. I’m very comfortable being held accountable to what I teach because I give scripture references throughout my blog and I repeatedly teach contrastive thinking, wherein I make it clear that I am teaching what I know to the best of my knowledge, and I am open to being proven wrong. Can you say the same?
I can’t thank you enough for the work you have done on this blog, your podcast and now YouTube! I grew up as a Christian but I always felt there were things missing and now I realize it was the spiritual world view! Everything seems so much clearer now with this new perspective. Your ministry has really helped to renew my faith. Thank you so much!
Throughout the years of listening to your podcast I have noticed you comment on a few different denominations. I am curious to know if you have ever found a denomination that you feel truly embodies the truth of the Bible along with a spiritual world view? Or if not, have you found one that is close?
I have been thinking of starting a Home Church but I have to confess that I have become so comfortable with the “religious” aspects of the church that I think I would miss it.
Thanks again!!!
Thank you JD! I’m glad that Faith By Reason and the SPiritual World View has helped you in your walk with Christ. People like you are the reason that I do what I do. As far as denominations, I frankly think they are all flawed because, by definition, a denomination emphasizes one aspect of doctrine, usually at the expense of others. My recommendation is to find a church that teaches the ENTIRETY of God’s word. I believe a home church is a great idea. This is how the Acts church (the only churches that got it right) started. Come before God humbly with a sincere desire to know Him and then ket Him lead you
I just want to say that i have learned a great deal from your podcasts and truly miss your teaching. Is this the end?
Hi Ron, I really appreciate you and I’m glad you have gained value from the site. I’m still posting, just not as regularly as I’d like. My content tends to go on YouTube first, but I’m adding to to the FBR site weekly to catch up
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Hi Christopher,
Thank you for the offer the be a guest on your show! I appreciate it. I will send you an e-mail.
Ed
Thank you Ed for the great series of Revelation. After listening to your somewhat appearance on Sam Tripoli’s podcast, I dove right in to your material. Being on the road driving a truck allowed me to catch up on all the Revelation episodes you created. After listening to them, it didn’t surprise me that your episode with Sam was disrupted. I was disappointed with that but happy to have gotten the necessary information to find your material. I want to think that some people like Sam say and do what’s right, but at the same time all these people present the necessary red flags for me to only take them with a small grain of salt. You on the other hand seem to stand true in Truth. And I’m grateful and would like to help any way I can. Could just answer me this simple question? What would be the least infiltrated version of the Bible? I question too much and I would like to know what you believe to be the version of the Bible that has been left pure. Thank you again Ed. God Bless.
Hi Corie,
Thank you for the kind words. I like to think that Sam is genuine, and there were some glitches during the recording, but I didn’t think they would be so bad that they corrupted 60% of the broadcast. But that’s technology for you. I am working with Sam’s team to get me back on to finish the episode so hopefully we’ll get that done soon.
As far as Bibles are concerned, no translation is perfect, but the best seem to be the American Standard Version (ASV), and the Amplified Bible. I like the Amplified as a study Bible because it gives you the full meaning of words. In short, a good translation will use the Masoretic Text (MT), or Textus Recepticus (NU) as their source. You should see those abbreviations in the footnotes after each chapter
Mr. Mabrie, do you have a new email address where I can send you a note?
in**@fa***********.net
is returned as undeliverable. Thanks in advance.
Hi Tim, sorry about that. That email server has been gibving me a lot of trouble over the years. Please use
ma*****@gm***.com
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Hi! Is there anywhere I can get information about where you studied and how you came into this ministry?
I can’t find anything about you online except what’s on your site.
Just came across you on TFH and I have to say.. we’re the same person. Always asking why, always analyzing & trying to understand how things work, always seeking truth even when it’s uncomfortable.
I’ve taken the same journey you have. Raised in church (Dads a preacher) and my curiosity inadvertently pushed me out of it but always believed in God in some way. Never in a million years did I think I’d be a Christian again but after over a decade or research, here I am. My research also brought me right back to Jesus.
There’s just one difference in that I think the jabs were the Mark (or at least the beginning of it) by establishing an operating system within the human body. I look forward to diving into your stuff, and if you ever have some free time I’d love to speak with you. I feel like our life experiences would be remarkably synchronistic and it’d make for excellent conversation. Regardless, it’s nice to hear I’m not the only one on this path. Much love and respect.
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the post. Yes it looks like we are on a similar path! I’m glad you found my site and I hope it is helpful. I created it for people with our mindset and it brings me great joy to encounter like-minded folks. Feel free to reach out via my personal e-mail –
ma*****@gm***.com
Be careful , don’t mislead people with assuming what the Bible doesn’t state
“Such as God does not have free will”
What is your definition of free will?
My name is Brad, I heard you on TFH and would like to ask you for a favor. I am starting a new podcast called The Awakened Podcast and was wondering if you would be my first guest on my show. The show mostly centers around spirituality, specifically the idea that God is Light. Would you be interested in joining me for about an hour?
Hi Ed. I am the cohost of a podcast named Nephilim Death Squad. We have had on guests like LA Marzulli, Tony Merkel and Shane Cashman.
We look at current events and issues through a biblical lens. I think you would be a great guest.
If you have any interest in coming on, reach out at my email
to*******@gm***.com
Hey! I just listened to your episode on TFH today. It was great! I’d love to be on your show. I’ll email you.
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I heard you on The Confessionals. Will you tell Tony he had a Deja Reve and not an Out of Body Experience please?
I can’t remember which episode it was, but he was freaking out about it.
Thanks!
Ed I appreciate your work very fascinating. Have you come across any of the books of Stylianos Atteshlis? I think his writings would help strengthen the framework of your ideas. His books are hard to come by, I can email you some excerpts if you’re interested.
Hi Seth, I’m not familiar with this author. Feel free to e-mail me some excerpts.
ma*****@gm***.com
Hello Ed,
I made a comment on another post a couple months back about Near Death Experiences from a Christian perspective. I think I mentioned at that time I discovered you – as many have – on TFH. My wife and I have been going through your Revelation series. Great stuff! And it’s cool you’ve gotten hooked up with Nephilim Death Squad, who we also discovered via TFH and have now been watching those guys (and now YOU with those guys).
Anyway, the reason for my email is I wanted to donate to your ministry and I don’t see anyway to do that. Maybe you aren’t taking donations. But, if you are, please let me know how to do that.
Scott
Hi Scott,
Thanks for listening! Yes, I am working on putting a “donate” feature on the site (I’m not terribly tech savvy). I’ll let you know when it is up
Hi Scott,
First of all, THANK YOU for your interest in supporting Faith By Reason. I just added a donation function to the web page. You’re welcome to use it to make a donation. You may be my first test case! Let me know if you have any issues. I’ll be gradually improving the donation experience.
Donation made! The process does need some “improving”, as you say, because it’s not clear that in order to move forward to the payment screen that you have to click on “Faith By Reason Donation” after you’ve entered the donation value.
Thank you for the gift AND the feedback. I’ll work on improving the process. As I said, this is new for me so I appreciate your patience.
Been contemplating your problem with the idea of seeking death but being unable to die.
I came to God and Jesus through a failed suicide as an atheist. Upon failing I broke down and ask God for an answer to why I could not just die. He gave me the answer I needed. Short, simple. “You are not yet done.”
I am not saying this has anything to do with the book of Revelation, but hearing the passage in question certainly brought these memories to the forefront of my mind
Hi Patrick,
I’m very happy that your crisis brought you to Jesus. It probably doesn’t directly re;ate to the Trumpet judgement in Revelation, but the fact that you are saved is the most important thing
Hi Ed,
I came across you on Sam Tripoli and am now hooked on your series HDS revelation. Really lifts my spirits I have to say..
I’m similar to Raven’s Watch guy in that I only just 2/3 years ago accepted this was the truth all along.. man a lot of time wasted to get there, but I guess it was the journey I had to go through.. A lot of programming to overcome to get there.
One thing I thought I would ask if you have heard (this is certainly new to me just in the last week or so, so I really don’t have any fixed opinions)
I watched a pretty interesting video that was suggesting a possible theory I hadn’t heard anywhere before regarding the zombie apocalypse..
In a nutshell, I have always been of the mindset that this will be because of the genetic modifications that people have taken part in..
but this guy was saying, what if all these zombie apocalypse movies are a satanic mocking of depictions of Christians and what our bodies will undergo.. the rest of the dead etc..
to be honest I’m gonna have to watch it again and try and explain better because I’m sure this sounds stupid, but they the guy doing the video is for sure very smart..
like I say tho, it’s just a new theory I came across..
I guess both can be true anyway, a mocking of Christians with resurrected bodies, as well as the grizzly dead/but undead DNA altered transhuman monsters..
Anyway God bless you and thanks for your work.
I will with diving into all your videos soon!
Best wishes,
Demian
Hi Demain,
Thank you for listening! That is definitely a new take on the zombie apocalypse. If the zombie apocalypse is indicative of anything, I think it is closer to what will happen to those who take the Mark of the Beast, which I believe will alter DNA in order to make people into vessels for demon/Nephilim possession.
**P.S sorry I mean NDS (nephilim death squad)
I really enjoy your podcast I am learning a lot. I’d like you to know you have deeply impacted me a 27 y/o woman. It is so hard to find content from people who are passionate, logical, and informative. Found you via tinfoil hat.
Hi Brenna,
That’s great! I’m so happy that you are enjoying Faith By Reason, and I greatly appreciate your words.. It is my passion to help people learn and better understand Christian philosophy.
Hey Ed heard you on the deathsquad podcast where you posited that mosquitos have no purpose. You should correct yourself on that one. Mosquitos serve a very important purpose of transferring energy from apex of life back to the base…. Transferring energy from you and me (blood) and returning it to frogs and bats and other small mosquito-vors
Sorry, but I stand by by assessment. The world would be a better place without those flying vampires.
Ed,
I’m a massive fan of your revelation series and the things you do in your free time spreading the word of God and podcasting about very important biblical topics.
I first heard you on Sam Tripoli’s pod and instantly the things you were saying resonated with me in terms of faith and what I’ve come to know in my studies and understanding of the bible. Then when you appeared on the NDS podcast and started the revelation series there, you talked about Chuck Missler being your mentor which makes sense because that’s who I really owe a lot to in terms of my biblical studies and many of the things you mention are very in line with what I’ve come to know. I think of Chuck as one of the greatest biblical teachers in the last century or so, although I try to also confirm with my own reading.
I really think that you are doing awesome work, and I just want to send some words of encouragement. You mentioned going through a job transition and I’m doing the same after 14 years. To make a long story short the company I’ve been working for over a decade has decided to basically go out of business and I’m one of the last folks left, getting ready to find out where God wants me next. I pray for guidance and for God to open the doors he wants me to go through and shut the doors he doesn’t daily.
When I heard you were in a similar situation, I felt compelled to write you this and pray the same for you! I hope it’s eventually answered, and the best happens for you whether it’s in the podcast world (which I would certainly be a listener to and know others who would as well) or in your current career path! At my career crossroads I’m taking all kinds of things into consideration as well including working for myself. I’m a graphic designer/ art director by trade for over 14 years and want to use those skills in any way to help God’s plan. If you are ever in need of any kind of creative help whether it be web design, graphic design, file handling, editing or anything in that creative realm that would help get God’s word out to folks, don’t hesitate to ask and I’d be glad to do anything in my skillset that can help you free of charge! May God bless you, your family and your next endeavor and I hope to hear more from your biblical teachings soon!
Thank you so much for the encouragement! I Really appreciate it. My dream would be to able to make a living doing podcasts. It’s daunting, but if it is God’s will, He can make it happen. I’m trying to do some new things with Faith By Reason (short videos and live streams). I’d welcome all the help I can get since I’m not as technically competent as I’s like to be.
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Ed, just discovered you on NDS podcast! I heard you discuss a prayer that you use for spiritual oppression. I would love to have a copy of you are willing to share.
Thanks so much!