It was Brent's words that parted me from religion, and it was Christ's words and power that led me to God.
Here's something I wrote back in 2007:
...in 2003 (as I can tell by some old emails I have), I separated myself from mainstream Christianity and began to seek the truth of God for myself by reading the bible from beginning to end. I remember doing a search on an online search engine (like Google) - I think I was trying to find bible contradiction websites (for whatever reason) and I then ran across Brent's website, and by reading his bible commentaries - I put the entire bible and religion to the side. I read about his experiences with the spacecrafts which he sometime called "guardian angels" and about Yahweh - and for a while, I decided to believe what he believed... until I realized he actually had no religion - and was more into politics and justice than anything else (from what I saw). So I went through a year of nothing, I wasn't even sure if there was any higher power - though I never forgot that 'moving star' I saw when I was 19 years old. 2 years passed, and it was 2005 that I took a glance at the Gospel of Thomas (since I heard that the Greek fragments may be as old as the Gospel of Mark) and I read a line that said something on the line of "[Yeshua said,] A man old in days will not hesitate to ask a child of 7 days about life, and he will live." So I thought to myself, "I will strip myself of as much knowledge about life and God(s) as possible, and I will assume nothing." [At which time I began seeking the truth of God from God.]
What God did through Brent would have been impossible with me. Brent was called by God early in his life, and probably even before then. He openly rejected religious dogma when he was only a few years old, while in Sunday school. I had no such frame of mind, and if I did and openly acted out in Sunday school, I would have been whipped by my mother. So God could not call me at an early age, not in the way that God called Brent - otherwise, my mother might not have been my mother for as long as she has been. Additionally, I was surrounded by a lot of religion and a lot of male macho authoritarianism that put me in emotional states that made me not so easy to deal with.
But when I found Brent, I clung to him. And when Christ called out to me, I clung to Brent even more. When I say "I clung to Brent", I mean that he was like a guiding light. Now mind you, after I left religion, I wasn't about to adhere to anything anyone said simply because they believed it to be true; I looked at Brent no differently in this regard. I didn't necessarily want to cling to Brent, because I wasn't looking for much from him (not like how I was looking for much from God), but the little he had to give, I wanted (I'm explaining this as best as I can). It was no accident that I stumbled across Brent around the same time that me and religion were parting ways. Christ said, "I want Kelvin to see My power, and the only way this will be accomplished without killing him in the process is for him to cling to Brent". Additionally, Christ might also be fulfilling those 2 prophets prophecies in Zechariah and Revelations; if so, it's his desire and decision to do so, and he is under no obligation to fulfill those prophecies.
I imagine that Brent will be walking barefoot in God's Garden a few years before me, and in those days, I will no longer be able to cling to him.
