Rob Cliff Lowe spent years sitting in the same pews, singing the same songs, and accepting the same version of the story everyone around him accepted, the kind of quiet, inherited faith most people never think to question. Then one small, reasonable question refused to stay quiet, and it wouldn't let him go. What began as personal curiosity about where his own faith actually came from slowly turned into years of independent research into comparative religion, ancient Near Eastern history, and biblical textual criticism, nights spent chasing footnotes, cross-referencing translations, and following a thread of evidence that kept leading further back than he expected. He isn't a theologian, a pastor, or an academic with a framed degree on the wall. He's not selling a new religion, and he's not trying to talk anyone out of theirs. He's, in his own words, "a guy who started pulling one thread and watched the whole sweater come apart", and once that sweater came apart, he couldn't just put it back together and pretend he hadn't seen what was underneath. Before One God is the record of exactly what he found, laid out plainly for anyone else who has ever lain awake wondering the same thing.