What happens when the God you inherited stops fitting inside the explanations you were handed?

In this Thursday Journal episode, I explore God as Mystery through deconstruction, biblical scholarship, and the long human attempt to understand the divine.

Coming out of the Messianic Hebrew Roots movement, I was taught to question everything — mainstream Christianity, tradition, Rome, holidays, and the version of Jesus most people inherit. But eventually, those questions kept going, and they led me beyond the movement that first taught me to ask them.

This episode looks at the development of Yahweh in the Old Testament, the evolution of Jesus from Jewish rabbi to cosmic savior, and how voices like Bart Ehrman and Rabbi Tovia Singer changed the way I saw the Bible.

But this is not about mocking faith.

It is about what remains after certainty falls apart.

Maybe belief is like a snowball rolling through history, gathering layers of tribe, exile, empire, philosophy, fear, hope, ritual, interpretation, and sincere religious experience.

And maybe God is not destroyed by those layers.

Maybe God is the Mystery behind the whole process.