Taking Scripture Back From Your Spiritual Abuser: Naomi Wright

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 263 minutes

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Naomi was raised in a pseudo-Christian cult. She was subjected to all manner of spiritual abuse and manipulation, from leaders who used Scripture out of context to control, shame, and terrify her. After doing the unspeakably difficult work of overcoming this abuse, escaping the cult, and learning that the Bible never truly supported such things, she now helps others to disentangle Christianity and Scripture from the spiritual abusers who have misused them. beEmboldened.com - I have been sending people to Naomi for help to recover from spiritual abuse. The reports I've so far received back have been extremely positive. People are getting the help they need. Click here for their website. Click Here for the beEmboldened YouTube channel with many other resources and testimonies. Why naming it and claiming it isn't biblical: Click here My overly long and far too detailed video on head coverings and 1 Cor 6: Click here My video on the topic of tithing: Click here I'm Mike Winger and my ministry is to help people learn to think biblically about everything, including taking Scripture back from spiritual abusers. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	Now my dad was considered the prophet by those who were following him.
0:03.3	He started practicing polygamy.
0:04.9	I have 15 siblings, and he was incredibly predatory.
0:07.9	He would start praying on girls as young as 14 years old.
0:12.6	I mean, I grew up in a very legalistic, high-controlled doomsday cult because of our beliefs.
0:19.4	I mean, neither of my parents sought medical care. It was just
0:23.7	they were supposed to be okay. And they weren't. They're dead. So I remember staying outside the
0:29.5	church and asking the Lord not to smite me. Truly, I was truly that scared. That's what I had been
0:35.7	taught. Like I was in the back of the church on the floor, curled up in a ball, weeping, shaking uncontrollably. Like that's how bad it was for a period of times. It's like, I can't do this right now, but I'm not going to give up. I think this is a video that's going to set people free from spiritual abuse and even help some abusers who honestly don't realize how their practices aren't
0:56.8	spiritual they're they're they're anti-spiritual they're they're not of god so we're gonna walk
1:00.9	through 13 different categories of and kinds of spiritual abuse manipulation coercion but if you
1:07.6	would start with just a brief overview of your story to introduce yourself to everybody.
1:13.4	Sure.
1:13.6	So I grew up, the way I explain it is that I grew up in a pseudo-Christian cult.
1:18.3	I don't think that's a technical term.
1:20.5	But the reason I call it that is because I grew up believing that I was Christian.
1:24.6	That's what I was told.
1:26.7	There wasn't a name for it. There wasn't a specific church name for it. I was told that I was Christian. That's what I was told. There wasn't a name for it. There wasn't a
1:28.3	specific church name for it. I was told that I was Christian. Now, I do know as an adult that we were
1:35.5	a splinter group of what's called the message. So William Brenham, a guy who died in 1965,
1:41.5	was the founder of the message. And it's still a global ministry today. And my dad had been a part of
1:48.0	that ministry when Brenham was alive. He went into some of the tent revival meetings that
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