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The idea that Christianity developed gradually from its beginnings, based on the teachings of Jesus but perhaps making certain additions or changes as the tradition developed, has a powerful hold even among the most liberal of scholars. Christianity did not develop this way, however. Rather, there was wide discord in early Christianity - something that was actually to Christianity's advantage, since in the rapid growth of Christianity, those features that had more appeal to the people of the Roman Empire would spread more rapidly and ultimately define what Christianity was. Had the followers of Jesus uniformly remained a Jewish sect, Christianity very likely would not have become the religion of the Roman Empire.
These schisms in early Christianity were not concerned with matters of detail of the Christian message nor with obscure questions of theology. They cut to the very heart of what Christianity was and is. They were the material of the repeated crises that dotted the landscape of early Christian history.
It is against this backdrop that we consider the history of Jewish Christianity.
Answer for yourself: Were the followers of this Jesus, as depicted in the New Testament, a book given us by Rome, following a new path, a new religion that was transmitted from God through this Jesus, and did it supersede everything that Judaism represented and was this "new religion" to be understood as a "correction" of Biblical Judaism?
Answer for yourself: Or were these followers of this Jesus, as depicted in the New Testament, simply Jews, who sought to return to the true and original Law of God as reveled to Moses?
This was the issue that continually faced Christians in the first four centuries.
Now for the sad fact of the answer you have been given by Gentile Christianity to the above questions:
The final resolution of these questions by orthodox Gentile Christianity was that Christians had no allegiance to the law of Moses as such, but rather first to Jesus and the church he founded, which replaced the law of Moses. This resolution created a paradox: in the beginning, Jesus and all his followers were Jews; in the end, the church condemned the Jewish Christians as heretics.
NO GREATER ERROR HAS EVER BEEN MADE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!
Because of this the "non-Jewish" believers in God have misunderstood so much concerning their own faith. Theological errors abound and escape the sight of most and are tragically called "orthodoxy" today; errors that would horrify one if he possessed the knowledge to see them exposed by the light of personal study. Twenty years of scholarly study will blow the lid off this "Roman Lie" received by the whole of the Western Hemisphere as "Orthodox Christianity" today. Because of such theological errors, fostered by Gentile antisemitism, disobedience within Gentile Christianity abounds and dear ones such sins of ignorance is sin regardless of whether you know it or not. Therefore, it is time for deep teaching and a call for Teshuvah...Repentance. And because of this sad legacy of Gentile Christianity our relationship with God is hindered, whether we know it or not; and so much worse, our love for Him is not in Spirit and in Truth. God desires better, He deserves better! I hope to contribute in some small way to the changing of such a sad state of affairs that exists in Gentile Christianity today. And this is done by my providing the fruit of my scholarly studies undertaken in my personal pursuit of truth; truth long held from us as "non-Jewish" believers in this "Jesus Story" and "the Christ".
With the former studies we have laid a foundation that allows us to march forward in pursuit of truth as we discover and restore the "Pattern of Worship" given mankind; both Jew and "non-Jew".
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