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“Courage for the sake of truth is better than silence for the sake of unity” (Aviel Schneider, Israel Today, April 2012).
In this issue of Israel Today, Ouriel Zohar discusses various esoteric “descriptions” of Yahushua. However, Zohar, like most writers and preachers, misses the point that the core of Yahushua’s Gospel was not “love,” although that is an essential component. Yahushua’s Gospel was about the coming of the Kingdom of Yahuwah, in the future, on earth, and how to prepare now to “manage the world” with Yahushua (1 Cor. 6:2; Dan. 7:18, 22, 27, etc.). As our priority, he taught us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come.”
There is no end to the possibilities and vagaries that the human mind contrives when we are told that Scripture is some mystical code book that requires “interpretation” by “trained” scholars. It is not! It is Yahuwah’s message to all who would know the truth. William Tyndale, who was burned at stake by the Church for his faith — the Devil hated what he stood for —said, “The Bible is to be read as a whole, and the words accepted for what they are; for it tells a tale that any man or woman can understand, without being ordained, or studying theology.”1
Why can we not accept the simple biblical definition of whom Yahushua of Nazareth is, as given by Luke (1:31-35) and Matthew (1:18-21), without the intrusion of the pagan Greek philosophy that was so much “second nature” to the early Church fathers? The philosophical preconceptions of the “Church fathers” influenced them (poisoned them) to produce unintelligible dogma that has blighted Church history and created a tangle of confusion over the nature of the ONE true Yahuwah and of His dearly begotten Son.
To this day, “official dogma” is supported by inference, mistranslation, imagination, and ignoring the plain words of Scripture, all promoted by an overbearing “authority,” instilling terror into believers that they must believe the unbelievable to be saved!
This emotional bondage has been imposed on millions and created in them a mesmerizing infatuation with what is nothing less than nonsense!
It is time many more Christians read their Bibles and summoned up the courage for Truth's sake rather than silence for unity! Suppose we follow the plain words of Yahushua in our time. In that case, we need not fear the threatening words of a self-perpetuating ecclesiastical elite, who burned those who disagreed with them in earlier times. They proved only that they were murderers!
1 In this connection, Tyndale also wrote before he was cruelly killed: “Cleave fast to the rock of the help of Yahuwah and commit the end of all things to Him” and “Be not overcome by men’s persuasions.” He also said: “The Scripture is a true light that shows us ‘both what to do and what to hope; it is a defense from all error, and a solace and consolation.” This comfort, Tyndale said, was to be found in the plain text and literal sense. “Cleave unto the text and the plain story,” he advised his readers. This was a crucial point. For a thousand years and more, Christian congregations had heard the Scripture only as a series of disconnected brief texts on which their priest hung his sermon. Long discourses were spun off a verse or a parable. Scholars argued on the meanings behind the apparent meaning: “idle disputers and brawlers about vain words,” Tyndale said, “ever gnawing on the bitter bark without and never attaining the sweet pith within” (William Tyndale: If Yahuwah Spare my Life, by Brian Moynahan).
This is a non-WLC article written by by Keith Relf.
We have taken out from the original article all pagan names and titles of the Father and Son, and have replaced them with the original given names. Furthermore, we have restored in the Scriptures quoted the names of the Father and Son, as they were originally written by the inspired authors of the Bible. -WLC Team