Whether you have been hurt by the Church or been taught to fear God, then this is your book. 

In HEY GOD, we take a gentle walk back through time to when Jesus spoke the words and look at the language He used, the true meaning behind the words and then follow it forward to today through the various language shifts.  

We follow the timeline of the church and look at how it discovered that fear was more profitable than love.

EXCERPT: 

Long before the word sin carried thunder in the pulpit, it whispered in a desert tongue. 

The Hebrews called it chet (noun), (חֵטְא), which meant to miss the mark, and it didn’t begin in temples or on scrolls; it began in the fields. The root verb was chata, meaning to miss, to slip, to veer off course. 

When an archer loosed an arrow and it flew wide, he had chata. The miss itself was a chet (noun). No guilt, no thunder. Just a missed shot and another loving chance to aim truer. 

That single image tells you almost everything about early Hebrew spirituality and how Christianity, in its evolution, altered fragment by fragment until it became a life and death struggle, not a gentle invitation to try again.