Jacob: Absolute Truth

On a cold, New Years Eve afternoon, waiting to start work, Jake and I sit outside in the cold away from the distracting noises of the inside of a café. We sit at a cold, dirty metal table, trying to dodge barbeque stains. To this interview, he brought with him The New American Standard Bible, and, in the leather cover was his name inscribed.


I’m from a town called Angel’s Camp
About two hours east of the bay area.
Moved to the bay area in December of 2005,
Right after I got married

You’re typically going to find a tight knit community,
Small town, so people know everybody,
Handful of churches up there.

You’ve got everything.
You’ve got just standard protestant churches,
You’ve got Catholic churches,
Jehovah’s witness,
Mormons,

You don’t really find a lot of eastern religions

I’m a Protestant.
Everything that I do
I filter through my understanding
Of who God is and
How I’m supposed to be following him.

What I do, what I see and
How I perceive things
I do through what the bible says
To be absolute truth.

I judge what I do as what
I would call wrong is based on what the bible says,
What I do right,
Is based on what the bible says.