User talk:Zackeria Brent

Christathian
Christathian is an old concept that has now been given an identity. I graduated from Bible School in 1961, started preaching in 1962, and was ordained into the ministry in 1970. However, I have always been a mechanical thinker and loved to study ramifications. When I saw anything, I wanted to know how it worked, or if it was possible for it to work.

One day in the middle of a sermon, I realized that I could not actually believe what I was teaching to be possible so, at that point, I apologized to the audience, closed my Bible, and exited the stage.

For the next 30 years, I just accepted that I was an Athiest and could not be a Christian. However, when I was growing up, my dad was a minister. and for years a missionary to the Apaches in Arizona and later in New Mexico and I had witnessed many things that I could not deny, but could not accept the explanation of how or why they happened. I did not consider myself a Christian because I thought I must be an Athiest, but I had Christian values and lived my life as though I was a Christian. I just did not go to church and could not buy into the dogma or doctrine explained in the Bible. There were just too many things that did not make any sense to me. During this time I started to understand what, why, when, where, and how things happened and what it was that I missed about being a Christian.

After a lot of study and analyzing, I started understanding what had been happening during the early part of my life, why I felt what I felt by being a Christian, and why I had seen some of the things that I had witnessed like miracles and answers to peoples prayers.

A couple of years ago I had an occasion to be talking to some other people who had been a Christian in the past but left the church because they could not believe the things to be logical that they were being taught, but they missed being a Christian. I told them that I was a Christian Athiest and discovered that there is room for a Christathian doctrine so I coined the phrase in 2020 and started the Christathian doctrine.

The Christathian doctrine is very simple and it is a result of many years of studying the Bible and the reality of life.

Christathian Doctrine: You do not need to believe the Bible to be a good Christian or Christathian.

Christathian: A Christian who does not believe it is necessary to believe the Bible in order to be a Christian. In fact, I believe that a person can have a much deeper spiritual life and be a better Christathian if they don't even try to believe the Bible when it says things like the earth was created in seven days, the Sun revolves around the World, Joanah was in the belly of a whale for 3 days and did not die, Adam and Eve were the first people, were had made by God, had two sons, and one of them ran off to a nearby town and got all messed up by mixing with the people of the town. And trying to understand things where did those people come from in the next town if Adam and Eve were the first people, and the snake that talked to them, and many other things that insult some people's intelligence.

As a Christathian you can enjoy all of the joys and benefits that any Christian can enjoy by fellow-shipping with other Christians by being a Christathian.

I believe our subconscious minds, or deeper minds are the soul of God so, in fact, we are all part of the God mind. All connected by a spiritual bond that we are not yet capable of understanding at our very primitive state at this time in our evaluation. Anything that man can not understand, he tries to explain by some simple story, rule, or idea but as we evolve, those stories evolve and modernize to meet the understanding of the time. If the Bible had been written today, a lot of things would be explained differently, and if it wasn't written until a thousand years from now, it would be even more timely. Always represented the truth, as the truth appears on the day it was written.

I no longer say that I am a Christian Athiest. I now say that I am a Christathian with the same joy and peace of mind I had when I was so proud to say that I was a Chistian.