TheWay or Christianity

It is generally believed and taught that Christianity was founded by the Savior from Nazareth, when he was on earth. But a question immediately arises. Which particular sect was the one He originated? This is very important, for any thinking person knows that of the hundreds of sects making up Christendom no two agree entirely. Naturally, the Savior did not inaugurate so many conflicting divisions. The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the church of God, the true bride of Christ, and that all Protestant sects are heretics. On the other hand, the Protestants deride the Catholic Church as the Harlot Mother of Revelation 17:5, not knowing that the same text condemns them as well.

Those who are acquainted with the facts know that Christendom is made up of Christian nations, whose faith was founded not by the Savior of Nazareth, but, by the pagan philosophers a generation after the death of the last of Messiah’s immediate followers. Christianity is an apostate religion, as we can readily prove. The denominations, sects, churches, or factions, which make up Christianity, are not followers of the Savior of the world. The doctrine He taught, the life He lived, the worship He practiced, are not those of modern Christianity. Christianity is Hellenic paganism, nationalized by Roman emperors for national solidarity. It was molded from the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, and the Gnostic Grecian philosophers. Christianity is but a newer name of the old religion of those philosophers. It is modeled after them in doctrine, in practice, in worship, and in name!

“The Encyclopedia Britannica” has this to say relative to this appeasement policy of the (apostate) Church, “Nothing, perhaps has tended more thoroughly to corrupt Christianity than the introduction into it of superstitions which are really pagan themselves, or have been suggested by pagan practices. Paganism, unable to oppose Christianity successfully, has done much to corrupt it, and in numberless ways has made inroads upon its purity.”

Christianity, as such, was not firmly established as a religion until the time of Constantine, who needed a national religion to solidify his empire. He, therefore, adopted the new religion, then going into apostasy made it into a national sect. He not only caused its acceptance as the one and only religion of the empire, but he formulated its policies, and caused them to be accepted as doctrines. Constantine then stigmatized as heretics those who would not accept the new religion, banishing them from his kingdom, or putting them to death. Anyone may verify the above by referring to any religious encyclopedia on the Life of Constantine. Thus began the harlotry of the Roman Catholic Church, from whence sprang the harlot church daughters making up the sects of Christianity.

When the Messiah was born into the world, His mother was a maid of Israel, of the tribe of Judah. He was born into a holy household, one which worshipped the Almighty according to the doctrine given by the Most High through the Holy Spirit to the prophets, by which we acquired the divine Holy Scripture. There is not one bit of evidence in the New Testament records that the Savior ever departed from the faith of his people, which was the Scriptural worship of the prophets in the Torah. His every act and word emphasized the fact that He came not to destroy the law or the prophets (that is, the divine Holy Scriptures), but rather to obey them, fulfilling them in every mark and tittle. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”- Matt. 5:17.

He taught the same precepts of holiness, practiced the same life of righteousness, and observed the same sacred feasts, and hallowed the same weekly Sabbath day, as did the patriarchs and prophets before Him. But, for the apostate church of His day, He emphasized the power of a life of holiness so lived that its influence would change the vilest sinner, making him whole in body and spirit once again. It was the message of the prophets placed into practice in His life, and in the lives of His immediate followers. This life of holiness not only influenced individuals, but through them affected the course of nations, and remodeled the world, in a fashion. But the Savior died, then ascended, and His disciples carried on after Him, until they too died. As long as the immediate followers of the Messiah lived, they patterned their doctrine and manner of life after that of their Savior, for they were mainly of the Jewish nation, and from the Jewish faith. They continued to live, to teach, to worship, as true Israelites, following the example of their Master.

After the destruction of Jerusalem, in the year 70, the Jews were dispersed into all parts of the Roman Empire; and the disciples of Messiah, being mainly of the Jewish, nation, were scattered with the others. With them, these disciples took the pristine faith which they had received from the Savior. They formed assemblies wherever they went, and so the true faith was sown throughout the world. The church remained basically pure and uncorrupted, until about the year 106 or 107. Those who attempted to corrupt the healthful rule of the Savior’s preaching if they existed at all lurked in obscure darkness. But when the sacred band of the Apostles and the generation of those to whom it had been vouchsafed to hear with their own ears the divine wisdom had reached the several ends of their lives. The federation of godless error took its beginning through the deceit of false teachers, who, seeing that none of the Apostles still remained barefacedly spoke out against the preaching of the truth and did reveal their counter-proclamation of false knowledge.

From among the nations where they were scattered the true believers gathered proselytes to the true faith, and so the assemblies grew in numbers, made up from the various nationalities mixed with believers from the nation of Judah. These new members, however, had been connected with other religions then, just as it is now. And then, as now, there was no salvation in them! When these converts came into the fold from the pagan religions they neglected to leave all of their former beliefs behind but often brought their paganistic doctrines and practices into the true fold.
“The propensity of the rude and uneducated converts from paganism to cling to the festival rites of their forefathers proved to be invincible, so that it seemed to be necessary to seek to adopt the old usages to the new worship rather than to abolish them altogether; moreover, although the empire had become Christian, it was manifestly expedient that the old (Pagan) holidays should be recognized as much as possible in the new arrangement of the calendar.”- Encyclopedia Britannica.

In time, as the true believers from Judea died off and the ones who held to the true faith decreased in numbers, the other element which had been proselyted from the pagan religions became the dominant force in the new faith. Then soon, except for isolated instances, the new religion became a mongrel, a half-breed, part pagan and part true faith. It was not the pure faith of the Messiah, nor was it the old-time paganism, nor was it known by any of the former names, but became known, in time, as Christianity. This change was gradual, beginning even in the time of the Apostle Paul, and culminating in the Roman Catholic State church during the reign of Constantine.

Of this change of the true faith into that of the mongrel religion, Dr. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, the noted church historian, says, “For fifty years after St. Paul’s life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we vainly strive to look; and when it at last rises, about 120 years A. D. with the writings of the earliest church leaders we find a church in many aspects very different from that in the days of the Apostles Peter and Paul.”

“Up to this time (the fall of Jerusalem, A.D. 70) the church had been regarded by the Roman government and by the people at large as a branch of the Jewish religion; but henceforth Jews and Christians were apart. A small section of Jewish Christians endured for two centuries, but with ever decreasing numbers, the Ebionites, a people by themselves, scarcely recognized by the general church and despised as apostates by their own race.”- Hurlbut’s story of the Christian Church, p. 43.

“There is a strong support of the theory that the earliest Christianity was Judaistic in every way; that it was, in essence, a Judaistic Reformation with the addition of Messianic principles which had been already current among the Jews for about two centuries. “Judaistic Christianity”, however, practically disappeared after the fall of Jerusalem in A. D. 70.” – Funk & Wagnall’s New Std. Encl.- Article, Bible.
In the wars with the Jews, the Romans considered them as enemies, as indeed they were. This feeling influenced the people of the Roman Empire in their attitude toward the true disciples, who were mainly from Judea. Many of the citizens of the empire refused to have anything to do with the new sect, because they considered it Jewish. Even the members of the assemblies from the nations were influenced by this spirit, and said, “Let us have nothing in common with this rabble of the Jews,” and so everything in the new faith which had a taint of Judaism was discarded, and a new religion formed which had nothing Jewish about it. The new creation was Christianity, but not the same faith of the Messiah in the Torah.

Christianity is not the faith of the Savior, but an amalgamation of paganism and Judaism, sprinkled with a tincture of the true faith as taught by the Messiah. Hurlbut says, “As long as the church was mainly Jewish, the Hebrew Sabbath was kept; but as it became increasingly Gentile the first day (Sunday) gradually took the place of the seventh.” Some people think this is a “Seven Day Adventist” movement, rather than a commandment. There are others like the New Church of God who is also returning to this as well as other original truths.

Not only was the Sabbath dropped from the new religion, and Sunday (a holy day of the pagans) adopted; but they likewise rejected the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and adopted Lent and Easter Sunday (Astarte’s Sun-day). The Feast of Tabernacles and the Day of Atonement were forgotten, and the birthday of the Sun-god took their place as Christmas. Sprinkling took the place of immersion; immortality of the soul, adopted from paganism, replaced the doctrine of conditional eternal life; the resurrection and Day of Judgment were forgotten, and a continuous judgment was taught through which the dead entered heaven, or hell, for eternity, no resurrection being necessary in this program. The kingdom of heaven, as an actual earth wide government under the whole heavens was ignored, as the members of the new religion sought to please the “powers that be.” This new church, so different, was Christianity; and for its deities it adopted various ones from the heathen, discarding the Most High of the Jewish Scriptures, and His blessed Son, Yahshua.

Once again we find the churchmen giving way to these heathen in order to win them to harlotry Christianity, compromising the true Faith for worldly recognition, by higher numbers. Quoting from Frazer’s “Golden Bough,” we find: Quote: “Taken altogether, the coincidences of the Christian and the heathen festivals are too close and too numerous to be accidental. They mark the compromise which the church in the hour of its triumph was compelled to make with its vanquished yet still dangerous rivals. The inflexible Protestantism of the primitive missionaries, with fiery denunciations of heathendom, had been exchanged for the supple policy, the easy tolerance, the comprehensive charity of shrewd ecclesiastics, who clearly perceived that if Christianity was to conquer the world it could do so only by relaxing the too rigid principles of its Founder, by widening a little, the narrow gate which leads to salvation.”

The new religion was not the old paganism, but really a new creation. It was a general amalgamation, made up of various beliefs of the new members of the old cults. They took something from one and another, and formed the whole into Christianity: Sunday from the pagan Romans, Easter from the pagan Egyptians, Christmas from the pagan Babylonians, the triune-god from the Gnostics, immortality from the pagan Greeks, and some from the teaching of the Messiah, and with many other doctrines were combined, and thus the religion of Christianity was formed, which, eventually, became the state religion of the Roman Empire. In many places the pagan temples were turned into Christian churches. The services of worship increased in splendor but were less spiritual and hearty than those of former times. “The forms and ceremonies of paganism gradually crept into the worship. Some of the old heathen feasts became church festivals with change of name and worship.”

The pagan temples not only became churches, the heathen festivals became church feasts, the Sabbath was replaced by Sunday, but even the heathen worship was transferred, as they substituted the adoration of the Virgin Mary for the worship of Venus and Diana. What did a pagan care about the name of the idol, or the name of the religion, just so he could understand that it was the same. So the new religion adopted the statues of Venus and Diana, Jupiter, or Zeus, Apollos, etc, and chiseled off the pagan names, and engraved thereon the new names adopted for the new religion, called Christianity.

The heathen had been worshipping Diana, or Venus. They had worshipped Zeus, or Jupiter, as the supreme deity, so now they were told the new name was Theos, or Dios, or God. Their savior was Zeus, so now they were to accept Jesus (Iesous, or Ie-Zeus). Pagan temples became Christian churches, pagan idols became Christian statues; pagan deities became Christian gods, pagan festivals became Christian holy-days, pagan rites and ceremonies became Christianized and so was born Christianity. Many pagan traditions were accepted as Christian, by giving them Christian sounding names.

The Hebrew prophets worshipped the Creator of the world, and to them He had revealed that His name was Yahweh, YHWH, (Isa. 42:8). The prophet declares that this was the only name (Psa. 83:18) of the Almighty. Just as Scriptures reveal that there is only one supreme almighty, so it also declares that He has but one name, and that name is Yahweh. Over 7,000 times the sacred Scriptures reveal that sacred name to man. When the Savior was with man, the patriarchs, the prophets, His disciples, and the Savior himself worshipped the only true Creator and called upon Him by His only revealed name of Yahweh, or the shorter form Yah. He worshipped the Mighty One of Israel, and knew and taught the sacred name. He prayed, “I have manifested thy name unto the men Thou gavest me out of the world.” “I have declared unto them Thy Name.” “I have kept them in Thy Name.”- John 17:6, 26, 12.

After the death of the disciples, Yahweh was no longer the one worshipped in the Assemblies, but the gods of the nations took His place in the Bible, and the new harlot religion. The prophet said, “All nations walk, every man in the name of his god, but he will walk in the name of Yahweh, our Mighty One, to times age-abiding and beyond” (Micah 4:5). When the Sacred Writings were translated into the tongues of the nations, the translators ignored the sacred names revealed in the Scriptures, and inserted the names of the national deities in the place of Yahweh. In every case the national deity in opposition to Yahweh was placed in the honored position. Each of the nations worshipped a supreme deity, and it had a national name. Where such a name could be used, it was placed in the translations. And thus, foreign gods received the praise, the honor, the worship, which were justly Yahweh’s. No wonder the Almighty declares, “I am Yahweh, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” – Isa. 42:8.

“The God of nineteen-twentieth of the Christian world is only Bel, Moloch, Zeus, or at the best Osiris, Mithras or Adonai, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. It is the statue of Olympian Jove, worshipped as the Father, in the Christian Church that was a Pagan Temple; it is the Statue of Venus, become the Virgin Mary.”- Pike. Morals and Dogma, p. 296.
Yahweh is not the supreme one of Christianity, but the songs, the prayers, the praise, and the honor, ascend to the name of a foreign god, in every language under heaven. (Even the Jews are not excepted, but sing and pray to Adonai, the Jewish form of the pagan god Adonis.) The Greeks pray unto Kurios and Theos; the Germans unto Herr and Gott; the Poles unto Bog and Pan, the English unto Lord and God. And so it is throughout Christendom. The name of Yahweh is ignored by the apostate religion.

When the Savior was born into the world His mother was a Hebrew maid of the tribe of Judah; but His Father was the Almighty whose name alone is Yahweh, or Yah. As He was the Son of Yahweh it was evident that He would carry His Father’s name, and this He plainly states, saying, “I am come in my Father’s name.”- John 5:43.

Our translated Scriptures say that Yahweh’s son’s name is Jesus, a compound word of Ie and Zeus. But remember the heavenly messenger spake unto a Hebrew, and declared His name in the Hebrew, which the writer explained to mean, “Yah is Salvation.” This name, “Yahshua”, being Hebrew, was objectionable to the Greeks and Romans, who hated the Jews, and so it was deleted from the records, and a new name inserted. Yahshua was thus also replaced by Ie-Sous, now known to us as Jesus.
The new religion was known as Christianity, because the supreme deity of it was called Christos, and so, we ask, Whence came Christos? The Hebrews called their coming Savior the Messiah. The disciples of the Savior accepted Him as such, and to them He was known as Yahshua the Messiah. The Greeks, however, rejected the Hebrew title, and called Him Christos similar to Chrisna (Krisna), name of the deity-savior of the East. Among the people of the East a sun-god savior was worshipped by the name of Krisna, and so among the Greeks of the new religion the Savior was known as Kristos, or Christos. Thus the Sanskrit name of the Indian messiah became the name of the messiah of the new religion, and it was now known as the new Christian (Krisna) faith.

The religion revealed in the Scriptures is the worship of the Creator, whose name alone is Yahweh. Baal is not the Creator. Adonis is not the Almighty, Pan is not the Holy One, neither is Lord, Kurios, or God. Yahweh is the supreme one: worship Him. (Isa. 42:8).

The only Savior in the Scriptures is Yahshua, the Son of Yahweh. He is the Messiah, the anointed of Yahweh. He came in His Father’s name and by that we adore Him. Away with the pagan name Christ, heathen name Jesus, and exalt the Savior of the world, Yahshua the Son of Yahweh, by His own true name. Let’s forget Christianity, with its pagan worship, its pagan deities, its pagan festivals, its pagan doctrine, and get back to the old pathway, the highway of holiness, the way of Salvation.

Our entreaty today to the reader is to consider well his ways. Compare your faith, your religion, dear one, with the original Word, your Creator with the divine Holy Scriptures, your Savior with the revealed original texts, and accept the old pathways of holiness. Worship Yahweh, the Mighty One of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; follow Yahshua, and be sure He is your Savior. Reject all traditions and commandments of man and worship Yahweh in Spirit and in Truth.

So you may be asking yourself what religion is the right religion? I tell you therefore Brethren no religion, for Yahshua wants a relationship with us, not a religion. So you ask yourself what faith or name should I tell people that I am? Personally I prefer to say that I am of the household of Yah or Yahweh. For the Orthodox Jews proclaim the law of the Father Yahweh and deny the Savior Yahshua. The Christians proclaim the Savior Jesus while denying the law of the commandments of the Father Yahweh. The household of Yahweh has both the Father and the Son in Yahweh and Yahshua Messiah.

Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by the Spirit unto Yahweh our Father.

Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of Yahweh;

Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yahshua himself being the chief corner stone;

Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in Yahweh:

Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through His Spirit.

May Yahweh bless! In Yahshua’s name.