Hodos: The Way of Christ – One Way Only, No U-Turns

I have written many articles over the years explaining that the use of the term "Christian" and the religion of "Christianity" in modern-day Western culture are not consistent with what we find in the New Testament portion of the Bible. Many of the readers of these articles see this truth, and therefore want to know what terms to use to describe those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ and do not want to be identified by the teachings of men and their false, destructive religious doctrines. I have publicly called myself a "Spiritual Jew", which is a more descriptive designation according to the teachings of the New Testament original manuscripts, and highlights the fact that we cannot use the term "Jew" or "Jewish" to simply refer to only one group of people. Jesus himself divided the Jews of his day between Jews who became his disciples, and Jews who rejected him and followed their "father" the Devil, as he so clearly teaches in John chapter 8. Jesus himself never abandoned the term "Jew" and continued to distinguish the difference between the "Godly Jews" and the "Satanic Jews" all the way into the book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, implying that the term "Jew" should really only apply to the Godly Jews. How one defines the term "Jew" in their own minds is almost completely prejudicial today, based on religious dogma. What I want to do in this article, is look at the texts of the New Testament to see how the disciples of Jesus referred to themselves, and propose the use of a word that is in the original texts but is not common in the English language, and therefore may have less prejudicial biases than common terms used today in the English language. And that term is "Hodos."