Thanks for your response.
I read it all.
I’m not sure I get your bottom line message (perhaps I am dumb) but appreciate it.
You are not dumb..
We have all been deceived.. the whole world.. christian, jew, muslim, secular humanist, atheists, etc..you name the group, they have accepted too much that just isn’t truth...
And scripture says it happens..
And when I realized, as a protestant, that I had my faith in exactly the same thing that the Mary of the catholic church pointed to, I sought to defend my ‘faith’...
And everything pointed in the direction that I just wasn’t taught Truth., I had just accepted inherited lies that people long since dead accepted and passed off as truth.
The Holy Spirit will lead us to all Truth. And I met the savior like we all do, as Jesus.,. He didn’t let me stay ‘there’..
And I didn’t know why at first... but I know why now...and why I don’t consider myself a christian anymore..
But not because my faith is gone. It has been strengthened...
I truly believe the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.. and He is coming back... and I don’t call Him Jesus anymore..
I don’t accept December 25, good friday or easter either as truth... I don’t live my life by the world’s calendar (named after a pope) anymore either.
It has opened my eyes to what sola scriptura can really be when one rejects the world and turns to His Holy Word for all instruction..