The Scholar's Table is now B'Chavruta — named for the Jewish tradition of wrestling text as equals. This is why I built sergiodesoto.com: a permanent home for everything I write across four lanes — faith, family life, religion, and business — because no writer should build on rented land.
Most people do not reject God. They renovate Him. This essay traces the cognitive dissonance mechanism behind the renovation, the five-step God Makeover that runs across modern Christian life, and what an honest turn looks like when shuv replaces feeling-as-repentance.
The doctrine of total depravity contains a logical crack nobody in the Reformed tradition wants to name: willful sin requires moral awareness, but total depravity claims that awareness was annihilated.
Every theological label you carry — Calvinist, Arminian, Reformed, Progressive — is a human product. Not one appears in Scripture. Not one was spoken by Yeshua. When did the label become the lord?"