Jackson Snyder Bible

ABOUT / BELIEFS / MISSION

I thank you for taking time to peruse and perhaps use my material.  May Yahweh bless you. 

In 1978 I had a religious awakening in which the Savior called me into the ministry of the Word.  I served as a lay preacher and musician until 1985 at which time I returned to college and accepted an appointment to a Methodist church.

At that same time I completed ministerial licensing school.  In the preaching segment of the training, students were encouraged to spend twenty hours per week setting their sermons to manuscript.  I had already been preaching from notes for years, but I followed the instructor's advice and began writing everything down. That practice continues to this day and this web site contains much of that.

In the years following, I finished university with high honors and went on to complete a Masters degree magna cum laude in 1994.  I completed a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) in 1996.  I have been appointed to pastorates in Indiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. I have also had the opportunity to administrate a third-world Christian school system.

I discovered the Sacred Name Yahweh (YHWH) in 1978 while reading the study notes in the NEB Bible in preparation for a Sunday School class.  For the last twelve years, I have been studying the Hebrew Scriptures with Elder Jacob O. Meyer.  I am also a long-time student of New Testament Greek.  Many of the texts on this site are based on new translations I have completed.

Currently I am serving an United Methodist parish in the Florida and maintaining this site and several worthwhile sites.  

ABOUT Snyder Bible:  Electronic ministry had been my calling long before there was an Internet.  I published my first digital book in 1993 and since have worked toward proficiency in web programming in order to get my work up and available for anyone who might find it useful in their spiritual development.  All my research and works are given free of charge.

The Advisory Council for Snyder Bible includes:

Rev. B. Wayne Dean
Rev. M. Banks Brazell
Rev. Dr. L. Lynn Hood
Mr. Phil A. Snyder
A Rabbi Dr. of Theology (anon.)
A Medical Doctor (anon.)

Harvest Network International oversees the veracity of this ministry.  I urge you to support the wonderful worldwide work of HarvestNet.

Affiliates include:

GLOW ministries International
Harvest Network International
Christian Ministries International
AllPoints Community Church

We receive some funding for books and tapes we send free of charge from individual donors. 

Jackson Snyder
mgi2@jacksonsnyder.com  

We do  not agree with all the texts on this site; however, we found them all to be interesting or challenging enough to publish.  In some cases, both sides of an issue is published.

We of the Nazorean Faith hold to the Apostles' Creed and supplement it with these distinctions:

We hold to the restoration of appellations "Yahweh" and "Yahshua" in our scriptures and all manner of conversation, accepting pagan substitutes (such as God, Lord and Christ) only sparingly or as teaching devices for those less informed.

We understand that Yahweh is the creating spirit residing in the "skies," a term referring to multi-dimensional space.  Yahweh is benevolent, compassionate, personal - but also just. 

Before his appearance at the beginning of the fifth day in Israel, Yahshua pre-existed with and as Yahweh.  He was always Yahweh's emissary between Yahweh and humanity.  Yet Yahshua is not now and never was a human being; rather, a body was prepared for him.

As Yahweh's unique Son, Yahshua the Anointed One became the final atoning sacrifice for the iniquity of the world. 

As to the doctrine of the Trinity: strong cases can be made for the Trinity in Scripture.  Perhaps stronger cases can be made for Duality or Unity than Trinity.  We agree with John Wesley's assessment: "I have no concern with it: It is no object of my faith: I believe just so much as G-d has revealed, and no more. But this he has not revealed; therefore, I believe nothing about it."

We hold that the Set-apart Scriptures, consisting of at least seventy books (including the deutero-canonical Scriptures), may be divinely interpreted by men and women through anointed teaching and/or gift of Yahweh.  

As Yahshua came to die at the end of the fourth prophetic day and the beginning of the fifth, we understand that the 21st century represents the beginning of the 7th prophetic day, or Millennium.  We are living at the beginning of the Millennium now, having experienced 150 years of constant warfare, as Yahshua prophesied concerning the centuries preceding the seventh prophetic day.

We hold to the conscientious practice of charity in all human relationships since Yahshua came to save all; thus we detest racism, sexism, party spirit and anti-Semitism, hate talk and hate groups of any kind.  True covenanters with Yahweh are charitable to their enemies.  Those who call themselves covenanters but hate are false family.

We hold to the validity of the "Ten Commandments" and the ordinances of Scripture. We understand the Fourth Commandment to be specific to the seventh day of the week: Friday, sundown to Saturday, sundown.  We encourage worship on all other days.  However, the seventh-day is sanctified by Yahweh and must be observed in a biblical fashion.  The same is true of Yahweh's set-apart seasons, observed by Yahshua the Anointed and  described for us in Leviticus 23 and in the "New Testament."

We hold that humankind is, in the natural, spiritually dead: each believer in Yahshua should seek to be "born from above" (dei `umaV gennhqhnai anwqen), receive a new and right spirit, and therefore become complete.  We understand "the immortal soul" to be a pagan myth.  We also understand that the only way a person can be "created in the image and likeness of Elohim" is to be (1) born from above and (2) obedient to the Word of Yahweh (the second being an indication of the first).

We hold to the indispensability of water baptism in the name of Yahshua.  We baptize those who cannot speak for themselves, including infants.  This is because water baptism is a means of grace through which Yahweh does far more than we in preserving the baptized for a Kingdom.

We hold to the Baptism in the Spirit as a work of grace separate from new birth and water baptism, and that there are many evidences of Spirit Baptism, including zeal, gifts, power and 'fruit unto devotion.'

We hold to the reasoned and measured practice of the the charismata and pneumatikoi, commonly known as 'spiritual' or 'motivational gifts,' within and without the assembly of believers.  We are "quiet charismatics," yet powerful in the sacred name of Yahweh.

We hold to the Real Presence of Yahshua in the elements of the Communion (i.e. the properly consecrated and administered unleavened bread and wine) as plainly set forth in Yahshua's own words (John 6:55), which we affirm to be genuine.  The Communion is an extension of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and may be celebrated as often as we will.

We hold to Wesleyan piety, practice and theology in most fundamental matters, as set out in the sermons of John Wesley, the hymns of Charles Wesley, the theological writings of John Fletcher, and other primitive Methodists of the 18th and 19th century.  

We support the sovereignty of the nation of Israel and its geographical boundaries as set in Scripture; we extend the hand of fellowship to the Jewish people (and of all tribes of Israel), especially those who earnestly practice religion, in accordance with the teaching found in Romans 11, that all Israel will be saved.

We support the United States of America in her struggle against racism, anomianism and terror; we support the US Armed Forces wherever they are stationed, and understand the United States and its allies to be an earthly power for good in fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy for this age of Millennium. 

We hold to the imminent appearance of Yahshua as high potentate, the restoration of the two houses of Israel, the three-class resurrection of all dead, the "better resurrection," the millenarian judgment, the perfection of saints and martyrs, the priesthood of all believers (those in covenant with Yahweh), the election of the sons and daughters of Elohim from among humankind, the impendent destruction of all evil, the Kingdom of the "Skies" coming upon earth and world without end.