In the many years we, the voices behind the Twin Tree Project, have spent navigating faith, we’ve come to realize something that makes people uncomfortable no matter which side of the fence they’re on:
Our beliefs don’t fit neatly into any box.
The foundation of our belief system is, without question, Bible-based—but our personal, nuanced understanding of the Bible and its messages directly clashes with both the way the Christian church teaches it and the way the New Age spiritual movement perceives it.
And honestly? That doesn’t bother us in the slightest. If anything, it just reinforces why we believe what we do.
The entire point of Twin Tree Project is to challenge the narratives that have been force-fed to people for generations. It’s to shake the ground beneath the feet of those who have never dared to question why they believe what they believe. And it’s to call out the deep flaws in both the religious and spiritual communities that neither side wants to acknowledge.
The Church Gets Spirituality Wrong
We don’t reject the Bible—it is and will continue to be the foundation of many of our discussions. We reject the way the church has twisted it.
Organized religion has reduced something deeply personal, mystical, and divinely inspired into a system of control, fear, and obedience to man-made doctrine. It teaches fear of God rather than relationship with Him. It discourages questioning, personal revelation, and the exploration of scripture beyond what has been pre-approved by denominational tradition.
Most churches today don’t teach people to seek God for themselves. They teach people to follow them—their interpretations, their structure, their authority. They have done exactly what Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for doing—turning spiritual truth into a rigid system of rules that benefit human power structures more than they do the soul.
And so, millions of people who might have had real, personal, transformative faith end up leaving the church completely—because they mistake what the church teaches for what the Bible actually says.
New Age Spirituality Misunderstands and Despises Religion for All the Wrong Reasons
On the other side of this, we’ve found that many in the modern spiritual movement reject Christianity not because they’ve read and understood the Bible—but because they’ve only ever seen the warped version of it that the church has put forward.
They associate “God” with control and oppression, not realizing that the true nature of God is neither controlling nor oppressive. They view the Bible as a book of limitations rather than a book of hidden wisdom that requires discernment to understand.
And yet, many of the same people who scoff at the Bible will unquestioningly accept teachings from channeled messages, vague “downloads,” and surface-level spiritual trends without ever applying the same scrutiny that they demand from religious texts.
They dismiss the Bible’s history, its esoteric layers, its profound metaphysical truths—not because they’ve studied it deeply, but because they associate it with the rigid dogma of organized religion.
And this is where they get it wrong.
The problem isn’t the Bible. The problem is how it’s been used.
The spiritual movement preaches freedom of thought—until you bring up scripture. Then, suddenly, you’re dismissed as “indoctrinated.” The irony is, rejecting something blindly is just as ignorant as accepting it blindly.
Why We Won’t Waver
We don’t fall into either camp because neither camp is fully right.
We have had enough experiences—deep, personal, undeniable encounters with God—to know that what we believe is not just theory. It’s not a guess, or a hopeful attempt to find meaning. It’s truth, experienced firsthand.
It requires nuanced and critical thinking, both emotional and intellectual intelligence, as well as faith in what cannot be seen, to fully understand both the Bible and spirituality—to grasp where that stance is rooted and from where it is fed.
We refuse to shape our expressions of our beliefs in a way that makes other people comfortable. Our stance on all of this will continue to stir up controversy. It will continue to trigger people’s nerves and insecurities about their foundational beliefs. That’s fine.
If someone is so threatened by our understanding of God, the Bible, and spirituality, that alone tells us they haven’t truly examined their own beliefs.
This is precisely what Twin Tree Project exists for.
To question.
To dissect.
To push back against the false narratives that have kept people in spiritual bondage for centuries.
Whether people agree with what we share here or not, we do not exist to argue.
Twin Tree Project exists to offer a middle ground—one that has the power to settle many debates. While we are open here to different takes and to new understanding, to growth, and to evolution, we will not waver on what we know from experience to be ultimate truth:
God is real. Truth exists beyond human interpretation. Faith and wisdom are meant to work together, not against each other. Spirituality and scripture are not at odds—only human distortion makes them seem so.
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