Michael Temperato (aka Metaphysics Mike) shares about his journey of faith. He tells about his struggles with drug addiction, pornography, broken relationships, and even jail. After hitting rock bottom, he turned to God and has been on a quest to pursue truth wherever it leads. After getting the left foot of fellowship from a church for asking questions, he came to embrace Torah observance and doubt the Trinity doctrine. Over the past few years, his research has culminated in a strong repertoire of facts from the Bible, church history, and logic that he puts to use in debating Trinitarians on YouTube. I got to meet him at Converge 2025 and was impressed by his theological knowledge and social media and video skills. I’m excited to see how God will work with Metaphysics Mike to reach people with the truth about God and Christ.
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Hi Sean [please feel free to cut this or not even share it if it’s too much!]
I feel that Victor’s comment you read at the end of the last episode (which was a response to episode #612) is one I’ve been hearing a lot and pondering deeply. Your answer to him was spot-on regarding why Yahweh and/or Jesus would have allowed the church to fall into such darkness so quickly and not make the path of truth clear through the last two millennia. Why it seems so few Christians have ever seen the truth about God’s oneness and Jesus’s humanity. God and Jesus have their reasons, and no doubt it aligns fully with their purposes to bring the kingdom to earth. Who are we to question their decisions?
I have a couple of thoughts about this. I’ve shared with many my belief that the Bible is a kind of trap, and some are taken aback by that idea. But I believe Scripture supports the concept that to gain true wisdom and understanding (as Lady Wisdom calls out in the streets, to all who have ears to hear …), a person has to have humility as well as tenacity to dig for truth as if it’s a treasure (because it is). Paul says God hides wisdom from the wise and prominent of the world and gives it to the humble and meek. The wisdom of God is foolishness to those who are perishing, and we would be remiss to exclude professed Christians from that group. I believe that regardless of the entrenchment of belief, anyone with a heart to worship God in truth will be led to these truths. It’s the fear of Yahweh that is the beginning of wisdom. The trap is pride.
There are some interesting details in the parable in Matthew 13:24-30 (if I may post it here in full (NAS):
Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and left. And when the wheat sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also became evident. The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No; while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
First, this contamination begins at the beginning: when seeds are planted. That tells me this work of infiltrating the truth with lies and liars started, as Jesus noted, right after his death. Second, the enemy does this (and God allows it). Third, it becomes evident the moment both the weeds and the wheat sprout–meaning, anyone paying attention (and who cares) can see this (it isn’t hidden). Fourth: the farmer’s servants are alarmed and suggest uprooting the weeds, but he tells them it’s too risky and could harm the faithful (interesting to ponder …). And fifth: the weeds and the wheat are allowed to grow together in close proximity, in the same field (where the good seeds were planted, his true church). At harvest (Jesus’s return), they will be separated (Malachi says you will see the difference between the righteous and the unrighteous, the one serving God and not serving him – Mal 3:18). So many Christians get caught in the trap of pride, thinking they know it all, have all the answers, which often leads to false teaching, oppression, greed, and other sins (just read church history!).
To sum up, I’ll just end with Mal 16-17: Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened attentively and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and esteem His name. “And they will be Mine,” says the LORD of armies, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will have compassion for them just as a man has compassion for his own son who serves him.” God sees the heart, and despite the grim view of a field choked with weeds, we can rejoice knowing who the master of the harvest is.