Messianic, Emphasis on "Messy"

Messianic Jews, and especially Torah-observant former gentiles (aka Messianic Christians, Hebraic Christians, Hebrew Roots, Messianic Believers, Netzarim, and a thousand variations of these), have taken a bold step in rejecting many things that they were wrongly taught as children by parents, churches, and schools. It's a hard and admirable thing to have done.

Unfortunately, once you decide that one long-held belief is based on a lie, it's easier to suspect other beliefs of the same faulty foundations. Far too easy. Here's how it often goes:

His name wasn't Jesus? The Sabbath wasn't changed to Sunday? The Torah wasn't thrown out? Hmm. What if everything else I was taught is wrong too!?

• Should this or that book be thrown out of the Bible?
• Should this or that book be added to the Bible?
• Should I be calling Paul "Shaul"?
• The word "god" was once used as a generic title for all supernatural beings. It still is! Maybe I should stop using it.
• I'm named for a pagan god. Should I change my name?
• The days of the week are named for pagan gods. Should I use those names?
• A month is sorta-kinda four weeks. What if the month changed and it used to be exactly four weeks and the first day of the month is supposed to always fall on the first day of the week and the Sabbath should always be on the 7th day of the month! (pant, pant, pant...)
• Was God's name replaced with "LORD" in the Bible as part of a conspiracy to keep us from knowing His name?
• The word "lord" is used to translate the word "ba'al". Is "lord" pagan?
• Are the Jews really Jews?
• Where did the ten northern tribes really go?
• Is the Pope the antichrist?
• The letter J is only 600 years old. Are all names starting with "J" based on a lie?
• What if His name isn't even Yeshua? Maybe it's Yehoshua or Yahshua or Yehusha or Yeshayashahushawayahoheyushua?
• Should we use the word "Bible" since it's an English transliteration of a Greek transliteration of an Egyptian place that was named for a pagan god?
• Is the earth really flat and all the governments, pilots, sailors, and scientists lying to us about the earth being round so that we will lose faith in God...I mean the Lord...I mean Jehovah...I mean YHVH. No, I don't know how that would make me question my faith, but someone told me it should, so...

This is completely insane! Messianics are jumping wholesale off the Cliff of Paranoid Delusions. STOP it! 

Just because something at some time was used by pagans doesn't make it pagan. The English language derives from an older language used exclusively by pagans. Are you going to stop speaking in English? What are you going to replace it with? Hebrew, which was also used extensively by pagans and is still used in Kabbalistic "magic"? Get a grip on yourselves. Have a drink. Take a pill if you have to. (Pharmakeia, I know. Can you hear my eyes rolling all the way across the country?)

Listen, unless you're a linguist, don't get too caught up in theological gymnastics that rely on obscure lingusitic theories that no linguist in the world could even verify, let alone agree with.

The letter J isn't evil. It's just a letter, and like all other letters used in English, it evolved from an older Latin letter, which evolved from a Greek or Etruscan letter, which came from Phoenician or Hebrew. Languages change over time. There's no conspiracy. It's not sinister. It's just people.

If your latest theory relies on centuries of coordinated, air-tight conspiracy by a large number of people, I absolutely, unquestionably guarantee you, that your theory is wrong. There is ZERO possibility that there is a conspiracy to hide that the Earth is actually flat. You cannot possibly believe such a thing without suffering from a serious mental or spiritual disorder. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not kidding. Get on your knees and get help right now.

Please.

For the sake of the example you are setting in the world, for the sake of the Kingdom... relax and have a little faith.