"For as long as I can remember, I was always wanting to know and never accepting beliefs, neither mine nor anyone else's. I couldn't just believe in the spiritual realm. I had to KNOW. I was always driving my parents and teachers crazy with questions they couldn't answer. I was always astonished by the fact that most people just don't want to know.

"In my early teens I began studying the Illuminati. I learned as much as I could about them and I eventually realized something: The Illuminati at the top are the most religious people in the world. Every aspect of their lives, I learned, is dictated by ritual and religious guidelines.... And their god is Satan. Now, by then I knew that the Illuminati don't settle for just believing things. They named themselves thusly because they are the illuminated ones. They get their power from knowledge, not beliefs. So if their god is Lucifer/Satan and their enemy is YHWH (God), then these entities must be real! It was a powerful revelation.

"So I realized logically that this was all real when I began to study the elite and the Satanic cults operating all over the world. When others couldn't answer my questions, I began learning from the people that know about it. Then I began seeing proofs for the Creator in science and philosophy.

"I began reading the Way (which is what the Scriptures were originally called) more carefully and thoroughly and began to realize that the inconsistencies that turned me away from Him before were actually just leaven, or what was added on by men.

"I developed a relationship with Him and began asking Him to speak to me through His word and He always did. I would flip to a "random" page and just start reading and every time I did, it was as if the message was spoken directly to me; it always fit the scenario.

"Then YHWH began proving Himself to me in personal ways. He created me, so he knows how I am. He knows that I can't have faith in anything I don't know to be real, so He gave me all the proof I need and then some. He continues to prove Himself to me every day by answering every single prayer I ask of Him.

"Now, I am in reverent awe of His might and the intricacy of His creation and His plan. I have developed a true love for truth. I've learned that whether it is beautiful or hideous, ALL truth is of the Creator.

"My hunger for knowledge has become insatiable. I no longer get any pleasure from worldly activities. I spend as much of my free time as I can researching the world around me, studying Scripture and sharing what I've learned. Everything I have learned about the world around me only serves to strengthen my faith.

"Faith. It's a word most Christians don't understand. Faith has to be rooted in knowledge, or it will lead to deception. Unless we know what it is we have faith in, we will be deceived by the ways of man, which are actually the ways of Satan. If we don't prove the Creator and His word to ourselves, we can easily end up following false gods, such as the gods of the various churches.

"Many don't understand that, not only is faith without works dead, but true faith, the unshakable faith that the apostles had, is always rooted in knowledge. They were willing to fight and die for the Torah and the teachings of the Messiah because they KNEW the truth. They rejoiced at the idea of suffering and dying for His Name.

"So when people ask me if I am religious, I have to say no and explain how I am not religious, but spiritual because religion is the leaven of the Pharisees; it is all from man. And when they ask me if I believe in God, I have to tell them no and explain that I KNOW there is a God, and the difference is that I can prove His existence!

"I am simply a follower of The Way, a child of YHWH. I stay away from the added-on religions of man that the Messiah called the "leaven of the Pharisees."

Nicholas Lawton Carpenter