The New Guy
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:21 pmHello Everyone!
I'm new here to the Forum, but I'm actually a long-time reader and listener of Christogenea--I discovered it over four years ago and have been following it continuously.
Recently, I had the privilege of meeting Bill Finck--and Melissa--in person here at my home in Ohio as they were making their way to visit Clifton Emahiser.
For those who have never actually met Bill in person, I can assure you that he is even more genuine that you can imagine. The conversation is always engaging--he pays attention to everything and is always looking out for something he's never heard before, which is amazing considering the vast amount of knowledge that he has to share. In person, what came across to me--that may not be as clear from his podcasts--is that Bill has a very humble side to him that put me completely at ease.
As far as how I came to CI, I found out from Bill that we had a lot in common. I was not raised in an overtly Christian household, nor did I attend church, so I wasn't carrying around a lot of Judeo-Christian baggage that would blind me or bias me against any truth if I encountered it. I'm also not a former White Nationalist, as I instinctively had an aversion to any group that expressed open hostility toward Christianity--I felt there had to be something important about it if the Jews hated it so much and did everything they could to destroy it.
As I pointed out to Bill, I came to CI simply through years and years of reading about history, politics, religion, art, and literature--and I applied my God-given logic to what I read. I wanted history to conform to the facts--I was looking for a way of seeing the world that explained everything I saw and did not contradict itself. And I was shocked to find that in all the years of listening to Bill's take on the world, and The Bible, never once did I catch him in a contradiction--and this was a first for me, as I had always been disappointed before this. That's amazing.
So I haven't embraced CI out of any sense of "blind faith" or because that was the belief of my parents that got handed down to me. On the contrary, I feel as if I've earned it through relentless perseverance, through years and years of having to un-learn so much brainwashing and intellectual dead ends. As such, I don't feel that I ultimately found Yahweh as much as He found me--when I was finally ready for it. If you apply pure reason to all that you experience in life, I feel that it can lead to only one place--Christ, as revealed through CI.
The one question that I initially struggled with was, "How do I know that I am truly not a bastard but a son?" After all, while I've done my genealogy going back a few hundred years, I had no clue beyond that point. What if one of my Celtic ancestors a couple thousand years ago had a hint of non-Adamic blood in his background? But of course, Bill answered that question years ago. He basically said none of us can know our entire genealogies, but if you are mixed race, chances are you'll never accept CI without reservations. That made a lot of sense to me because every mixed-race person I'd ever met was double-minded, and thus they would reject CI literally on a genetic level.
And so, it's great to be here among like-minded people. It's been a long road, but I'm finally here.
I'm new here to the Forum, but I'm actually a long-time reader and listener of Christogenea--I discovered it over four years ago and have been following it continuously.
Recently, I had the privilege of meeting Bill Finck--and Melissa--in person here at my home in Ohio as they were making their way to visit Clifton Emahiser.
For those who have never actually met Bill in person, I can assure you that he is even more genuine that you can imagine. The conversation is always engaging--he pays attention to everything and is always looking out for something he's never heard before, which is amazing considering the vast amount of knowledge that he has to share. In person, what came across to me--that may not be as clear from his podcasts--is that Bill has a very humble side to him that put me completely at ease.
As far as how I came to CI, I found out from Bill that we had a lot in common. I was not raised in an overtly Christian household, nor did I attend church, so I wasn't carrying around a lot of Judeo-Christian baggage that would blind me or bias me against any truth if I encountered it. I'm also not a former White Nationalist, as I instinctively had an aversion to any group that expressed open hostility toward Christianity--I felt there had to be something important about it if the Jews hated it so much and did everything they could to destroy it.
As I pointed out to Bill, I came to CI simply through years and years of reading about history, politics, religion, art, and literature--and I applied my God-given logic to what I read. I wanted history to conform to the facts--I was looking for a way of seeing the world that explained everything I saw and did not contradict itself. And I was shocked to find that in all the years of listening to Bill's take on the world, and The Bible, never once did I catch him in a contradiction--and this was a first for me, as I had always been disappointed before this. That's amazing.
So I haven't embraced CI out of any sense of "blind faith" or because that was the belief of my parents that got handed down to me. On the contrary, I feel as if I've earned it through relentless perseverance, through years and years of having to un-learn so much brainwashing and intellectual dead ends. As such, I don't feel that I ultimately found Yahweh as much as He found me--when I was finally ready for it. If you apply pure reason to all that you experience in life, I feel that it can lead to only one place--Christ, as revealed through CI.
The one question that I initially struggled with was, "How do I know that I am truly not a bastard but a son?" After all, while I've done my genealogy going back a few hundred years, I had no clue beyond that point. What if one of my Celtic ancestors a couple thousand years ago had a hint of non-Adamic blood in his background? But of course, Bill answered that question years ago. He basically said none of us can know our entire genealogies, but if you are mixed race, chances are you'll never accept CI without reservations. That made a lot of sense to me because every mixed-race person I'd ever met was double-minded, and thus they would reject CI literally on a genetic level.
And so, it's great to be here among like-minded people. It's been a long road, but I'm finally here.