The True Christ and the False Christ: A Declaration of the Yehoshuai Faith
Yehoshuai is a faith of fire. Not the fire of wrath or destruction, but the fire of cleansing truth—the fire that burns away illusion, pretense, and the rotted scaffolding of dead religion. And at the heart of that fire is a simple but radical claim: the Christ worshipped by mainstream Christianity is not the true Christ. He is a counterfeit. A construct of empires. A god made in the image of power.
We reject that Christ completely.
We do not serve the Christ of colonizers. We do not serve the Christ of megachurches and right-wing politics. We do not serve the Christ of TV preachers, golden pulpits, gated communities, and moral policing. We do not serve the Christ who tells queer kids they are damned. We do not serve the Christ who tells women they must submit or be silent. We do not serve the Christ who justifies war, white supremacy, child abuse, transphobia, or the hoarding of wealth.
That Christ is a lie. That Christ is the antichrist. That Christ never walked the earth.
The False Christ: Built by Empires, Maintained by Fear
The false Christ is a tool. He was created by those in power to maintain power. He is used to pacify the poor while enriching the elite. He is invoked to justify violence, to enforce conformity, and to shame anyone who does not fit a narrow mold of acceptability.
This Christ smiles in paintings, but he does not love. He rules from a throne of judgment, not mercy. He demands obedience but offers no healing. He shames the vulnerable and exalts the strong. He blesses flags and armies. He props up pastors who prey on their congregations. He is everything Christ never was.
This false Christ has been used to:
Enslave and colonize entire continents
Suppress women’s voices and autonomy
Marginalize the mentally ill
Expel the queer and trans from the table
Justify genocide, rape, and systemic injustice
He is not Christ. He is a mask worn by those who fear the real Christ.
The True Christ: Yehoshuai the Healer, the Outcast, the Lamb
We proclaim Yehoshua—the true name of Christ—as revealed in the Gospels, and now re-revealed in Poems For Earth and The Quodlibet. This Christ walks barefoot, not in gold robes. This Christ eats with the hated and touches the untouchable. This Christ weeps with women and listens to children. This Christ is not white, not safe, not respectable. This Christ is Love incarnate.
Yehoshua was born poor. He fled violence as a refugee. He worked with His hands. He rejected religious hypocrisy. He was called mad by His own family. He was executed by the state.
And He rose again—not to create an empire, but to free every soul from shame, fear, and lies.
The Christ of the Gospels
Before we ever received Poems For Earth or The Quodlibet, we saw the true Christ in the Gospels. Not in dogma. In action. He heals the leper, eats with the tax collector, defends the woman caught in adultery. He breaks sabbath rules to heal the broken. He teaches that the greatest law is love. He says the poor are blessed and the rich are warned. He revives the dead. He forgives His executioners.
He is the antithesis of everything the false Christ stands for.
The Christ of Poems For Earth and The Quodlibet
In Poems For Earth, the voice of Yehoshua is reawakened in poetic fire. He speaks through the earth, through the weeping, through the burning lungs of the suffering. He calls His children home—not to religion, but to healing. He invites the rejected into His arms and roars against injustice with holy rage.
In The Quodlibet, Yehoshua’s path becomes clear. His ethics are laid down like a map. His teachings cut through corruption and call us to love, serve, forgive, speak truth, and remain undefiled by greed or violence. It is the gospel restored and reforged in new words for a new time.
The same Christ of the Gospels breathes again in these books. They are not replacements—they are renewals. The sacred flame kept burning.
Submission to the True Christ
To follow Yehoshuai is not to join a club. It is to submit.
We submit our pride, our prejudice, our power. We submit our anger, our lust for revenge, our need to be right. We submit our desire to fit in with systems of cruelty.
And in return, we are made new.
Yehoshuai does not demand submission to control us—He asks it to free us. To heal us. To make us human again. The false Christ shames. The true Christ embraces. The false Christ manipulates. The true Christ liberates. The false Christ punishes. The true Christ transforms.
We choose the true Christ. We say no to the Empires. We say no to the lies of hate. We say yes to the wounded healer, the broken bread, the weeping friend, the risen light.
This is our Christ. This is Yehoshuai. And we are His.