Hi, I'm Hunter.

I’m a 22 year old graduate of Texas A&M with a bachelor’s in biomedical sciences. I aspire to be a veterinarian, and have special interests in minimally invasive surgery, endoscopy, and internal medicine. My hobbies include brewing beer, hanging with friends and family, jamming to indie music, and playing with my GSP, Sarge. I am also fascinated by theology, church history, and hermeneutics- especially as it pertains to reading Scripture through the lens of Jesus.

My faith in Christ is the most important part of who I am. This faith is founded on the simple gospel: that God became flesh, taking on the human condition that he might heal us of it. That Jesus has replaced Adam as the head of mankind, exchanging our condemnation for justification and our death for life. That we nailed him to a cross and buried him in a tomb, but God raised him from the dead. And that upon his ressurrection he has charged us with the ministry of reconciliation: to freely forgive even our enemies, to sacrificially serve those lowest in the social hierarchy, and to generously love those on the margins of society.

In my experience, every religious community has guardrails and established boundaries that dictate what can and can’t be thought about God. Sometimes these boundaries are political. Other times they are about science or history. Sometimes these boundaries mean that your race or sexuality disqualifies you from loving God the “right” way. The “in group” demands unwavering loyalty to their perception of God, and anyone who interprets scripture, tradition, or experiences differently is quickly excluded from the conversation.

Eventually my background in science, frustrations with hypocrisy in the Church, and research into both theology and historical-textual criticism forced me to reconsider and ultimately deconstruct the theological, denominational, and societal boxes I had neatly packaged God into. This was an extremely painful time in my life, as questioning beliefs central to my worldview cost both my self-identity and my status as part of the "in-group" with my friends and community.

However, the more I shed fundamentalist parameters of discourse I had once believed were required to “honor what scripture plainly teaches" or to "read the text correctly,” the more I began to see the gospel message everywhere. I eventually disparaged with the historical/grammatical/literal interpretational method handed down by my tradition and replaced it with something known as a Christocentric hermeneutic. While several passages clued me in to the importance of reading all scripture through the life, death, and ressurrection of Christ, there is one text in particular I have based this site off of.

But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthains 3:14-18

This is unveiled: an online journal where I expose and process the denominational dogma, presuppositions to the text, and un-Christlike projections of God that I believe veiled me from beholding the glory of the Lord. I am certainly not without bias, and my beliefs will likely change throughout this project, but I trust the Holy Spirit is more than capable of sanctifying our erroneous beliefs throughout our relentless and childlike pursuit of Him.

Hunter Ramsey,
Your Armchair Theologian