In Genesis 15, Abraham believed Yhwh…

Abraham’s belief in Yhwh included believing Yhwh’s words.  When Yhwh spoke and told him something, Abraham listened, believed Him and obeyed.  He believed him and acted upon that belief.  This is the belief that was counted as rightousness.  Righteousness simply means “to be right.”  To be counted as “right” by the one who created all, one’s thoughts and actions must line up with what this Creator says “right” thoughts and actions are.  Abraham was counted as righteous “right” because he believed Yhwh, the Creator.

Christians lay claim to Abraham as their father based upon the notion that, like Abraham, they believe the Creator and obey Him.  However, if you are a Christian, are you sure the Creator, Yhwh, is who you regularly believe?  Have you thoroughly checked or have you even checked at all to KNOW who you have believed?  If you believe that you follow the Creator’s ways and are obedient to His plan, shouldn’t your beliefs match to what He says?

I would propose to you that if you are a Christian, you are in fact expecting the Creator to follow your ways, and you are NOT following His.  I know that’s a shocker of a statement; however, if you are at all honest or even slightly paying attention when you read the scripture, surely you have noticed discrepancies and contradictions between what you read and what you have been taught to believe.

Isa 55

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto Yhwh, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our mighty one, for he will abundantly pardon.  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Yhwh.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

[In like manner] shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me as worthless, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Do you believe that?  Abraham believed it.  Yhwh made several significant promises to Abraham and Abraham believed every one of them.  Do you really believe the words of Yhwh?  Many people who have been raised in the Christian belief, whether Catholic or Protestant, believe that they are serving the Creator and that what they are believing and doing is according to His words and directions.  The trouble is that there are a great many instances that can be pointed to in which Christian beliefs and actions to do not match to His words clearly written in the scripture.

In fact, one such example is found in a foundational Christian belief that somehow or for some reason the Creator had to be reformed.  Another example is the notion that somehow the Creator made a mistake in expecting men to obey Him…mankind just can’t do it so He sent His son to do it for you and I.  Now, somehow, that frees us from having to obey His commandments.  You may not have thought this outright; however, it is an underlying principle of Christian belief.   This belief of reforming the Creator likely stems from the doctrine of Marcion of centuries past in which the Creator was viewed as some evil demiurge and “christ” had to come and rein Him in…get Him under control, or rather, reform Him so that the Creator could finally understand His creation and have empathy with His creation.  Due to the empathy He now has, he no longer expects obedience to “the law.”  This belief in no way matches what the Creator in His own words spoke to Moses.  It does not match His description of Himself nor does it match to what the prophets said about Him, yet it is a basis for many current Christian beliefs.

There seem to be several reasons that Christians believe things that are clearly contradicted in the book Christians say they follow.  Possibly the biggest reason is that Christians do not study.  They read, but they don’t study.  There is a huge hole in their understanding because they do not know history, they do not know ancient Hebrew culture, and they refuse to consider that this lack of knowledge has been handed down for centuries and that they can be [and are] wrong in many conclusions which have formed a basis for their beliefs.

An example can be found in the so-called “new testament.”  Of note here before giving the example is that most Christians have no idea who even came up with this label “new testament” nor do they bother to consider that those who came up with the label were men who hated the Jews or, at the very least, considered them washed-up, rejected people of “God.” In fact, it was accepted that these Jews, though not despised by them they assured themselves, were most certainly despised and rejected by “God” because they had first rejected Him in the form of His son, “christ.”  The Jews of course were synonymous with “the law” which God Himself had decided to cast off as He reformed His own ways and understanding and was suddenly determined to foster peace and love (which He neglected to have previously) for His creation, which to Christians seems to mean Gentiles [which simply is a word that means non-Jew].

Because they start out with such a notion, even if not consciously acknowledged, there is a failure to comprehend what is read and many will even argue against such quotations as can be found in the book called Matthew, where our example is found, in which current Christian doctrines do not match to their own Christian “guide book,” if you will, the “new testament.”

Matthew 5 contains a statement made by a Jewish man who claimed and believed he was the Jewish messiah: the long-looked for anointed of Yhwh who the Jews expected would restore Israel as a nation and rule the earth according to the precepts of the Creator.  The Jewish prophets told them that this would happen.  These Jewish prophets are the same men Christian doctrine teaches were inspired men telling of future events who called people to repent.  While Christians say these prophets are to be believed, they not only won’t read what they wrote but even if they bother to read what the prophets said, they won’t believe them.

The telling of the straying of Israel and its restoration is also found in the Torah which is commonly translated “nomos” in Greek and “law” in English.  The word is better translated “instruction” or “teaching” to convey in today’s understanding the actual intent of the Hebrew word “torah.”  The idolatry of Israel, the punishment of Israel and the redemption of Israel is a VERY obvious thread running through the whole tapestry of the scripture.

To continue our example, the Jewish messiah, Yahushua [Yah is salvation], who shared the same name as Joshua of old, Moses’ assistant, is quoted in Matthew 5 of the King James Version as follows:

 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

I haven’t met a Christian yet who doesn’t argue with that or who will acknowledge that it means what it says.  That is because that statement does not match up with Christian teaching.  Interesting that the so-called originator of Christianity cannot be believed to mean what he says.  And, despite this statement made by Yahushua in which he emphatically states TWICE that he does not “destroy” the law, “destroy” being a Hebrew idiom for breaking down and thus weakening the Torah, Christians today teach, in fact, the exact opposite of what he said…even going so far as to say that their beliefs represent his teachings and that the “law” is “cancelled.”

Even now, if a Christian, your mind is likely scrambling for cover looking for some way around the words stating he didn’t come to “destroy.” I have met those who say “he didn’t destroy it…he fulfilled it,” not even comprehending all the while they are talking that the meaning they are applying to “fulfilled” is actually “destroyed.”  And so, rather than believe what he says, there are those who believe what they were taught without actually THINKING about the blatant contradiction that exists between what they have HEARD some writing means and what the writing actually SAYS.

This “understanding” (which is rather a lack of understanding) has its beginnings with men who began to teach nearly 2,000 years ago and who were exposed by an early follower of the Jewish messiah as charlatans and liars, misrepresenting the Jewish messiah and what his followers called “the way.”  These erroneous views of the message of the Jewish messiah were passed on to many followers who passed their understandings on and so on until we have an erroneous message traveling down through time from the “church fathers” to modern-day preachers, priests, evangelists, missionaries and on and on.

In fact, this follower that claimed that his own words were being twisted was the apostle called Paul by the Greeks, named Sha’ul by his parents, and is quoted in his second letter to Timothy, “We know that the law is good, provided one uses it lawfully.”  Why would one use a cancelled law?  Also, why would one cancel a law that is good?  In a letter he wrote to some people in Rome, he said “For as many as sinned without law [torah] shall also PERISH without torah and as many as sinned in torah shall be JUDGED by the torah.  For not the hearers of torah are righteous in the sight of Elohim [the mighty one], but the DOERS OF THE TORAH shall be declared RIGHT,” and “Therefore the law [torah] is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. “

From my experience with Christians, most of them very nice people, I have found very sadly that they have barely cracked the portion of the book that contains this “torah” [instruction/teaching].  Again, that is probably the biggest reason that Christians cling to beliefs that are completely contradicted by the book they say they believe…they have never STUDIED IT…rather they listen to other people who have listened to other people who have listened to other people who read what the “church fathers” wrote who then were “qualified” to tell them what the book said and what it meant.

In fact, a good example of what happens when an unlearned person [one who has not studied the Torah…the five books of Moses] attempts to teach can be found when Christians explain about the woman who was caught in adultery and was brought to the Jewish Messiah.  It is recorded that scribes and Pharisees brought her in an attempt to accuse the Jewish Messiah of wrong-doing, which they would have succeeded in doing if they could have gotten him to violate the Torah.

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