Two Roads From the Same Verses

Two men can hold the same Bible, read the same verse, and walk away with two different religions. That is not a failure of the text. It is a record of what each man was handed before he ever opened it. This page sets the two readings side by side and lets them be compared in the open.

Nothing listed here is new. There is no revelation behind it, no vision, no council, no teacher who unlocked something the prophets missed. Every doctrine on this page was written down before the first church door was ever hung, and most of it was settled in the Law before Israel crossed the Jordan. What the church calls new teaching is usually old error, and what it calls old error is usually the original road. Jeremiah told a generation exactly like ours to stand in the ways and look, and to ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it. That is the whole assignment of this page.

Under the doctrines sit the Six Foundations. Hebrews 6:1-2 names them in order — repentance from dead works, belief toward Yahuah, the doctrine of washings, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment — and calls them the principles a believer starts from, the milk before the meat. They are usually read as New Testament material. Every one of the six was already operating in the Law, in the sacrifice, in the priesthood, and in the promises made to the fathers. The writer of Hebrews was not introducing six new things. He was listing six things his readers were expected to already know, and telling them to stop circling the foundation and start building on it.

Read either road first. Both lead to the same verses.