I was raised in "non-denominational" or sometimes called Full Gospel/Charismatic/Evangelical church, as a teenager I ran away from all of that once I started to get independence from my parents. Now many years later, having learned what I have about jewish influence in Christianity/Scofield Bible, etc. I'm searching for where to learn about Christianity without the presence of all the subversion. Not quite sure where to start.
I mean that both from trying to read and gain knowledge about it as well as potentially finding a fellowship or church to join. I don't necessarily know a lot about theology or doctrine outside of the things I picked up when I was a kid but obviously all of that was zionist oriented.
Due to my background I have found Orthodox/Catholic stuff strange and foreign, the icons and pomp of it all is somewhat "off-putting" for lack of a better word. Though granted, there was definitely stuff within the church I grew up in that I found off-putting and strange too.
Any suggestions, whether on reading material (or podcasts, I've heard of Stone Choir being mentioned as something to check out), or other areas to look into? Thanks!
> *The Old Testament translation was based on the Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) and was further compared to other sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Greek manuscripts, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate. The New Testament translation was based on the two standard editions of the Greek New Testament*
That sounds ok on the surface, but it's missing some verses that are only in the Septuagint, and entire Books; Tobit, Judith, Maccabees 1 & 2, etc.
Thanks for posting this. I'm pretty pissed off right now. I don't really get hung up on the whole direct translation stuff since the languages have evolved and changed entirely several times, but omitting entire books and many verses definitely sounds very 7th to 10th century jewish to me.
> *Masoretic Text (MT) is the text that was carefully preserved and transmitted by Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes from around the 7th to the 10th centuries.*