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This substack will launch March 31st 2023
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What's up!!! I'm Matthew Salih. I'll get straight to the point. I LOVE stories. It's the lifeblood of ALL my historical, theological and cultural fascination. For me, religions and cultures have this common theme I see in all of them. So I try to find connections to them that often aren't brought to light, which leads to why I'm here.
How I Got Here!
So after nearly 15 years of my faith & beliefs being taken through a ringer of challenging topics, particularly from the black Hebrew Israelite, black conscious, new age cults and calvinism, each with their own varieties, I basically had a unique treasure of work that has built up over much dialogues, Debates, Facebook conversations, and perhaps some emails. This work has been what I have been carefully continuing to grow and share with you all. But in the way of tools! Yes. I make apologetic tools. Which leads me to my next point.
We Found Each Other. And More Will Come...
If you are looking for a journey in your reading, this place is made for you.
If you learn so much better by reading content that makes you feel like the article post is actually talking to you like a person instead of letting your mind do all the imagination and work, this place is made for you.
If you are looking for articles with sources and citations that make you feel like you're using a tool that will perfect how you articulate your faith or make simple clarity out of challenging topics, this place is made for you.
If you want to get lost in a whole range of topics relating to:
The Ancient Near East
Paralells of Past and Present
The harsh impact of antisacramentalism
Church Fathers, Reformers & Saints
The long origins of post modernism
Partial Preterism
Refuting Black Hebrew Israelites and other cults
Discovering the Importance of Worship, Prayer and other ancient practices
Making Sense of History
And so much more, this place is made for you.
For Free Subscribers
Free subscribers get:
1. Free subscription articles.
I figured if you're reading and love of the articles go beyond the average onlookers then you should be rewarded.
2. Some articles include “Saintly Insight Weekly.” Mondays
“Fortune favors the brave” - Roman Proverb
We need to be inspired by the lives of saints again. SAINTS ARE NOT STRANGERS. We need to know about our own history as Christians. Sharing insightful moments Found in the Bible and personal testimonies are always a blessing. But why stop there? The more diversity you have in what you share about the people of your faith, the more effective and relevant your light can be to that very person.
3. Question and answer app
Christian/Hebrew Conversations Free Version
Ancient One: My Substack Chatbot
This chatbot literally answers the many questions you have which you can copy and save endless amounts of notes and information. It draws DIRECTLY from SOME of my subtack articles, except for the paid subscription articles, addressing concise concerns, with scriptures and citations, followed by the very links at the bottom of every answer so you can dive further into the answers that you seek.
This saves you TIME, from dead internet research. Again, tools reduce research time.
Limitations. It only can draw from a limited amount of my articles, intead of all of them…
For Paid Subscribers
My true purpose is to equip you with what I wish I had when I began back in 2010, and to enhance your ability to teach and share your faith more smoothly.
For those who Teach, & Research, the goal for me was to get off the internet. I accomplished this with tools.
For $7/month you get the same tools I've enhanced and added to over the many years.
Obviously you get everything from the previous. Next..
A PDF TOOL FILE: The Church Fathers By Topic
I spent 23 hours putting together hyperlinks within the PDF that goes from a topic you click on to the quotes on that topic and a link back to the index. This POWERFUL tool was modified to show the theological longevity of a specific Christian doctrine or general subject down through the ages.
My PRIMARY & #1 growing tool:
My "MySword" Bible app.[REQUIRES ANDROID OR SAMSUNG] so sorry iphoners
Without this one tool I literally don't have a ministry. It's what I use first, tops, etc.
Mysword is a free app. Over the years I've collected a unique set of modules of the program that resulted in me no longer needing the internet. This saves time, and ends distraction searching. You'll have everything you need.
75 Bible translations, 76 Commentaries, 63 Bible dictionaries & Lexicons, 73 specially selected theological books.
Those numbers grow at least yearly
and finally,
AND MY VERSE NOTES within the app! Dozens upon dozens, holding research and my personal insights with additional citations from scholars, church fathers and more.
Ancient One 2.0[coming soon!!!]
Unlike the chatbot that is limited to the free public articles on my substack, this BOT has my personal knowledge base for a brain. That means this BOT, gives answers from unreleased articles and info. Notes that i have yet to turn into substack articles. Thats an advantage. Meaning it answers questions from my decade plus years of organized notes, including my yet-to-be-released notes. Again, this saves time, and is incredibly effective.
Access my Google drive & Keep note archives
These are used to keep from wasting dead time on internet searching. It is a collection of research excerpts both great and small all categorized by tags. This is most effective because it contains endless exerpts and theological notes I've collected over the years. My Google drive contains many books that delve into deeper matters of church history and theological sstudies.This also includes some of my powerpoints
5. The rest of my 58(and growing) articles that address and put an end primarily to the issues and Objections brought by Hebrew Rooters and Hebrew Israelites. Some of these articles exist in the free section, such as Isaiah 66. So if you want to know the quality of paid articles, that one is a prime example.
6. Personal call sessions. 1 hour (email me, and we can talk.)
Personal Tool requests.
If there is a functional PDF file or set of files you would like for me to make you of a topic of your choice then it will be done. If I were you, I'd take advantage of this.
Community Group Chat: This is the place where resources and other treasures are shared among one another. (COMING SOON)
A portion of PowerPoint lesson downloads.(COMING SOON)
If you’ve seen my work on Youtube, I make stunning powerpoint lessons with amazing visual backgrounds. If you love the visuals during our offline or livestream sessions and would like to have them, including blank backgrounds to create your own lessons then this gift will serve you well. Don't just teach, but make them feel as if they were there.
This substack will launch March 31st 2023
For more questions contact me @ ssoreal@gmail.com