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[This was first posted in 2012. There are seekers like ourselves out there looking for answers to the same questions we had before we became Sinaites; we see where they’re from, how many posts they check out. We can’t convince one more soul right where we are and yet this website is drawing visitors from all over the globe. How consoling and heartwarming indeed! The Rabbis and Jewish scholars trail-blazed for us in terms of explaining their Scriptures; we hope we are trail-blazing for others in terms of unlearning teachings from the New Testament and endeavoring to understand the Old Testament from the Gentile perspective. We are outsiders looking in, so to speak.—Admin1]
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Toward the end of my super-lengthy article on Kazantzakis’ novel/film —
— where readers with little patience would have given up scrolling to the end, I wrote this lament which I’m resurrecting because it applies to the topic of this article:
I am wondering
why it had never once occurred to this indefatigable God-seeker
who travelled far and untiringly sought truth from various sources,
including the whole spectrum of intellectuals of his time,
from the irreligious to the fanatically religious,
to simply read the first part of his Christian Bible
which might have led him to the Hebrew Scriptures
which would have undoubtedly led him to discover
the One and Only True Saviour of mankind and creation
YHWH.
He would have discovered
how simple YHWH has made it for man to reach Him through—-
partaking of the Tree of Life,
living the TORAH,
and knowing Him
through His Sinai revelation . . .
not the complicated theology
he had been taught and embraced.
If he did investigate the Hebrew Scriptures
and yet chose to remain within his Christian beliefs,
then that is such a pity,
because for those of us who discovered this truth
even late in life,
we now know that despite adversities in this world,
life in YHWH
is a joy and a celebration,
the true Sabbath and Shalom,
not unnecessary suffering
and a lifetime of struggle
and wondering, wondering, wondering . . . .
It is with great compassion for untiring seekers of God that we decided to start this website where we could hopefully connect with like-minded fellows who are in a quandary, at a crossroad of two contrasting belief systems:
- faith in the God of the Hebrew Scriptures,
- or faith in the God of the Christian Scriptures.
They—God of OT and God of NT—- are not one and the same.
We have just begun another year and look back to the start of our journey together. Individually, each of us was on the same crossroad in 2010. It had taken us almost a year to investigate and research and restudy and resign from our former religious affiliations and then re-group!
In September of 2011, we organized into a loose community living in different places/countries, though our core group is based in Baguio City, Philippines. We called ourselves “Sinai 6000,” explaining in our Creed what we now believe.
To reiterate what we had written in our Statement of Faith:
“Since the majority our affiliates are gentiles who were former Catholics, Evangelicals, Messianics, (and a few unaffiliated independent God-seekers), we felt that turning away from our former Christ-centered faith to turn to the God of Israel placed us in a neither-here-nor-there situation. Having left institutional religions, most of us were not inclined to get into yet another major religion such as Judaism, even as we embraced the God of Israel Whose Name is YHWH. We checked out gentile groups like the Noachides and web communities like the Synagogue Without Walls but did not fully agree with their credo.”
We realized there was a need to fill the vacuum. Where could people like ourselves go?
Since we started this website in February 2012, we have written about many articles, we quit counting how many. This is our way of connecting with and redirecting those like ourselves who don’t know where to go or how to start over. Not expecting any internet-wayfarers to find their way here, we were surprised at the traffic we’ve seen coming our way since we joined the world-wide-web.
Is this website one of the right places to look for “God”? It depends.
If you’re seeking the God whose is name is YHWH, yes you’ve come to the right place, this is one of the many good places to learn about Him:
- YHWH is the God of our newfound faith.
- YHWH is the Name we declare.
- YHWH’s unique revelation recorded in the TORAH of the Hebrew Scriptures is the TRUTH we live by.
There are other places listed on our links you should visit and learn from; mostly Jewish websites, and a sprinkling of awakened gentiles like us. Actually the Jewish links do a far better job of expounding on the Hebrew Scriptures than we because they’ve studied far longer than we have and have read it in Hebrew while we depend only on English translations.
There is a young man who shows up when he’s off from working in a farm, for a one-on-one lesson on how to read the Bible. When he texts to make an appointment, he includes a particular biblical verse. It’s a good reminder from the writer of Proverbs 28:9, presumably King Solomon, for all those seeking to know YHWH:
[AST] Proverbs 28:
9. If one turns aside his ear from hearing the Torah,
his prayer, too, will be [considered] an abomination.”
