The Story of My Life

Robin Of Berkeley ^ | March 16, 2018 | Robin

[No One Special]

Robin is an excellent writer.

[americas.best.days...]

I remember her from her articles on American Thinker.

Interesting writer with substance.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Bookmarking

[ConservativeMind]

Too many evangelical churches are only “seeker-sensitive” and do not properly grow a baby Christian into a responsible adult with all the proper knowledge and understanding.

God is not there to be your pet or to be put into your god box that only a “nice” god could inhabit. He is not there to make your life easy and fun or rich and happy.

[Jeff Chandler]

Beautiful.

[volunbeer]

Only God, through His gift of grace, can validate your existence. This is absolute truth and there are many who will spend eternity with the crushing realization of what they missed in a mere moment in time.

[rktman]

A lot of FReepers watched the transition Robin of Berkley took over a couple of years right here on the FR pages.

[Piranha]

It is a shame that she had to throw out the baby with the bathwater. If only she had been able to find meaning and G-d’s glory within her own Judaism. It is very sad when a good person is lost to our people. If she had made the effort to understand her faith, meet with Chabad rabbis, take classes, and engage with the Holy books that had sustained her ancestors through deprivations of thousands of years, she could have become a luminary to other Jews confused and alienated by the depravity and ennui of modern secular life.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent writer, for sure. “I was told never, ever to go through it.” Sad but true. Anything but Catholicism.

[familyop]

Agreed, and I’m *not* Jewish. Apparently, she was not told *why* she should avoid that “door.” I have no desire at all to go back that way, especially after having been there before.

[reagandemocrat]

So true. I followed Robin closely several years ago. Really enjoyed her writing. I will keep in my prayers this Easter Vigil.

[Netz]

Dear Robin of Super liberal, assimilated and Left wing Berkeley:

Congratulations on becoming a whole, happy person in the Church. You rejected Judaism because you were totally ignorant about what it actually is and what it’s practice is all about. So you rejected that which you do not know or never understood. This is/was unfortunate.

Sorry you had a negative childhood that was soooooo dark. You equate Judaism with a suffocating darkness. Your family was f__ed up and you were ignored or neglected. You poor little thing.

You think that by changing your original identity and associations by becoming a Christian will help? I hope so but you represent millions of post-WWII, ignorant and assimilated Jews who rejected Torah without having an inkling of what it is or means. You lost a faith you never knew.

This is a loss and a shame but hey, if you’re happy believing in Jesus, well then so be it.

[TigerHawk]

I have stumbled across this person’s writings here and there over the past several years. Everything that I have seen of her work concerns itself with nothing but herself. She is a self absorbed narcissist telling the entire cyber world about herself, as if anyone really cared. I was repulsed by her long ago. Now she has renounced the faith of her parents (something very telling there, as she also dishonored them publicly, by her description of them). She has bounced from one inane “revelation” to another, making sure to tell us all about every one of them. She will bounce from latest “revelation”, to something else in her vain search for meaning, in her meaningless life. She is as unstable as water...and frankly, I just don’t care about anything about her. She’s a bore. A melodramatic insufferable bore.

I know that there are many here who welcome her discovery of Christ. If it was genuine, and built on a bedrock foundation there would be value in that, but this is built on the shifting sands of her self absorbed whims. This is the latest in the long list of her revelations concerned only with herself. She is a poor lost soul...still.

[TigerHawk]

AMEN!

[Netz]

Loss or gain?

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[ladyL]

I read your post and agree with what you say with one exception and it's a BIG exception. After being a Messianic Believer over thirty years I can with confidence, through years of study and faith, say that I would be entirely comfortable encouraging this woman to go back to her Jewish faith including any range of Judaism, from Orthodox to Reform now that she knows and has received Yahshua as her Messiah. In fact Judaism is the Faith my Messiah practiced and He, Yahshua is the exception that Judaism needs to incorporate in their Faith doctrines and practices. As a Gentile (non covenant man), I came into the church, overjoyed that Jesus made atonement for my many sins, made a way to enter into the New Covenant, Jer.31:31 and establish a personal, intimate relationship with Hashem, G-d, Yahweh. However in this Christian paradise, I was still a seeker of truth. As a polygraph examiner and trained investigator what Christianity was offering I found out through church history and doctrine was NOT what Yahshua and His disciples practiced or taught. I then processed into Messianic faith, which is basically Judaism with knowing who the Messiah is, Yahshua. Just as Rabbi Kaduri wrote on a piece of paper to be revealed one year after his death. He acknowledged Yahshua is the Messiah, the suffering son of David soon to return as the Lion of Judah, the King of Israel. I am now completely at peace with my Elohim...no more fake holidays, subversion of the Law, false doctrines etc. Yahshua said to follow Him, which is what I am doing and keeping the Faith, Judaism, He walked in. Go ahead and argue your points about how Judaism could never accept Yahshua as Messiah...I have heard all the arguments...all I can say is I have TOTAL PEACE with Hashem. I know, that I know, that I know. Shalom.

[miss marmelstein]

She was probably never exposed to her own religion at home. Her family was probably atheist. It's a great religion, one of the world's great religions but her turn to Christianity may have something to do with her rejection of her family. But Catholicism is one of the world's great religion as well - and if practiced with knowledge and discernment, it can be a great force for good in one’s life.

[crusher]

I am one of those who follow Robin’s observations fairly closely, although her infrequency is often puzzling and frustrating. I found this account to be perplexing as she acknowledges the heterodox and often heretical streams within Catholicism and Protestantism, but somehow she sees such chaos within Catholicism as proof of it being the one true church by being the recipient of spiritual warfare. Could not the same be the explanation of chaos within Protestantism? It is very sloppy thinking, and I say this as a Protestant who knows many believing Catholics.

[Albion Wilde]

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