I spent many years trying to follow Jesus, seriously applying the Bible to my life, repent, confess, obey, surrender, endure, overcome, tithe, believe, fast, pray, witness and do many Christian things.
I wanted to follow Jesus by trying to be His disciple. I took the Bible as God’s word and expected Jesus to come soon.
I believed in almost every denomination at some point in my life: Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Pentecostal, Marthoma, Brethren, Cessationist, Charismatic, dispensationalist, Law, Holiness, Lordship salvation, Hyper-Grace, Word of Faith, Preterist, Futurist.

I seriously studied the Bible diligently, as if every word of the New Testament was written to me.
The Bible was so important to my life.

At the end of it all, I finally realized that nothing in the Bible was written to me. Everything has already happened. The 2nd coming and judgment day is over. All things finished in the 1st Century. We were never the Church….We were never sinners.
We were never called to follow Jesus or get baptized or do anything.

I spent so many years being brainwashed by religion.
I realize now that God never told me I was a sinner needing salvation.
Everything in the Bible was about the old creation under the law. God removed sin after the judgment day of 70aD.
He made ALL things New…..Old things passed away.

I’m just enjoying life, free of religion, knowing that DADDY loves me and has not called me to faith or any religious stuff.
Mathew Simon