For those whose questions have outgrown the answers they’ve been given.

The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John offer an account of Jesus’s life. But anyone who reads them carefully notices that they don’t always agree. The birth story differs. The resurrection accounts diverge. Even the sequence of events shifts from Gospel to Gospel. These aren’t minor details, and they deserve a thoughtful, honest look. This is a reflective comparison of the Gospel accounts and not a critique. We study what the narratives might actually say and what might be clarified when we approach them with critical thinking and curiosity.

What Inspired This Book and How it Came to Be 

I was finishing a month-long automatic writing course when all of this began. I had no religious background or any theological training. I had recently left college and a few internships because none of it felt aligned, though I couldn’t yet name what I felt I was being called to. 

Automatic writing, for those unfamiliar, is the practice of bypassing the critical, analytical mind and allowing what lives beneath the surface to come through in written form. It’s a practice of surrender more than a occult practice. And once I got the hang of it, something unexpected arrived.

I was introduced to Mary Magdalene.

I had no context for who she was, so I began to research. I was not surprised by what I found in the biblical record. A prostitute, a characterization that centuries of scholarship have since challenged and that many believe was a deliberate distortion. But what struck me deeper was encountering several channeled books about her story. As I read them, something happened that I hadn’t anticipated.

I felt an energy that was warm, expansive, and unmistakably feminine in nature, and this energy began moving through my heart space so powerfully that I had to set the books down. It wasn’t alarming or dark, But the most loving presence I had ever encountered. And it was real in a way I couldn’t explain or dismiss.

A Spiritual Perspective on the Four Gospels

Shortly after, in my automatic writings, Yeshua arrived alongside Mary Magdalene.

And they asked me to write about the gospels and channel him through my intellect, my intuition, and my words.

I was confused, but I was also intrigued. And then something clicked.

I remembered a pattern from everything I had been reading: Yeshua’s disciples were not chosen from within the established religious order. He wanted people without institutional conditioning—a clean slate for his ministry. No preloaded theology or loyalties to defend.

And here I was. Someone who had never opened a Bible. Someone with no religious affiliations to protect.

That was apparently the point.

They gave me a choice. I could walk away from the experience entirely. But I had already made my decision to continue the path without knowing where this would lead. Something in me recognized that this path was mine to walk.

How I Used Automatic Writing to Write the Book

What followed was unlike anything I had experienced before.

Because I was unfamiliar with the Bible, I quickly discovered that modern translations had obscured much of the original meaning. So I worked with the King James Version and the Douay-Rheims. It involved me reading through them methodically, locating the inconsistencies across the four gospels, and documenting what I found.

Then came the channeling itself.

Each session began at 3am, a time when the conscious mind is still loosely tethered to the dream state, making it easier to slip into the subconscious. I would enter a trance and write so the material arrived unfiltered and unedited, and whatever arrived flowed without effort. 

Then I would return to sleep and review the material five hours later.

In the mornings when I read it back, it surprised me every time. I could feel a genuine presence in the words—a character, a voice, a way of seeing that did not feel like mine. I don’t remember much of the writing itself, not to dismiss my authorship, but the trance state means the material moved through me in a way that bypassed ordinary memory. In the mornings, I was often reading it as though for the first time.

The editing process was tedious, but the substance of what came through was consistent and clear.

Why I Almost Didn’t Publish It

When I finished the book, my fear arrived about publishing it.

I was well aware that this book could draw in the wrong readers—people looking to argue, debunk, or to use it as ammunition for a position already held. The sensitivity of the subject, combined with the nature of how it was written, felt like something that required careful, intentional handling.

So I waited. I held it through the summer after a road trip to a conference. The conferences about UFOs and fringe topics the mainstream media doesn’t quite cover. I sat with it until I felt ready to share it in a way that honored what it was.

This blog post is part of that process.

A Spiritual Approach to the Life of Jesus

The Contradictions of the Gospels is not an attack on Christianity or any religious tradition. It does not ask you to abandon your faith or your community.

It is an examination of the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It’s specifically focused on where their accounts of Yeshua’s life diverge, contradict, and leave gaps. The majority of the book is channeled directly from Yeshua through my automatic writing practice. The introduction and closing are written by me personally.

The intention is singular: to invite you to look further.

This is not from the authority of a priest or a clergy member or a theological institution. But from your own direct encounter with the material, your own intuition, and your own relationship with a story that, if you’re reading this, has clearly never left you.

Who This Book Is For

This book is not for everyone, and I mean that with full respect.

It was written for those who are in the middle of something. Perhaps you’re questioning what you’ve been taught without being ready to name it out loud. Perhaps you’ve felt like an outsider in religious spaces, or the version of faith being offered simply doesn’t fit or resonate with what you’re actually feeling. Perhaps you carry feelings of shame, guilt, and confusion that were handed to you by an institution. And you’re looking for a way through it that doesn’t require abandoning Yeshua entirely.

Perhaps you’ve simply always sensed there’s more to his story than what has survived the centuries of translation, politics, and institutional shaping.

If any of this resonates, this book was written for you.

An Invitation

Book cover: The Contradictions of the Gospels by Trent Phillis — textual comparison of the four Gospels

I’m not here to tell you what to believe. That has never been the point of this work.

I’m here to open a door. What you find on the other side is yours to discover.

The Contradictions of the Gospels is available now. If you feel called to it, I trust you’ll know.


AI tools were used for editorial assistance; all final texts are currently were reviewed, rewritten, and approved by the author.


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