ASSERTIONS OF FAITH:THE NAZOREAN YAHAD
At the outset, let us say that
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We hold to the amended Apostles' Creed:
We believe in YHWH, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Yahshua the Anointed One, His only Son, our Sovereign Master: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryah, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was impaled, died, and was buried. He descended into hell (i.e. the second and fifth heavens). The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of YHWH the Father Almighty, whence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Set-apart Spirit, the universal congregation of the elect, the communion of the righteous, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amein. We supplement the Creed with these distinctions: We hold that the Scriptures, consisting of seventy books, may be interpreted correctly through the gifts of prophecy, wisdom, and knowledge - such being given by the Set-apart Spirit to whom He will. We believe in the restoration of the true names, "Yahweh" and "Yahshua," in our Scriptures, and in all types of decent conversation. We do not accept pagan substitutes (such as G*d, L*rd, Chr*st, J*hovah) except as teaching devices for the children of Elohim awaiting revelation (Romans 8:19). We also acknowledge the validity of the earlier forms of the True Names: "Yahuweh" and "Yahushua," as well as other, similar forms that attempt to transliterate from historical reliability. Yahweh is spirit; we hold to the duality of the Father and the Son, duality in unity. Yahshua-Yahweh was destined to be the ultimate atoning sacrifice for the iniquity of the world. The Holy Spirit we understand as the Spirit of Yahweh described in Isaiah 11:2, multifaceted and set-apart. We cannot understand the doctrine of the Trinity, since it is left unexplained in the most reliable Scripture version. Yet we are in total agreement with John Wesley's Anglican teaching on the subject of Trinity. He summarized his understanding this way: "I have no concern with it: It is no object of my faith: I believe just so much as God has revealed, and no more. But this he has not revealed; therefore, I believe nothing about it. But would it not be absurd in me to deny the fact, because I do not understand the manner? That is, to reject what God has revealed, because I do not comprehend what he has not revealed?" We hold to the conscientious practice of agape-charity in all human relationships since Yahshua came to save all; thus we detest racism, sexism and anti-Semitism. We prefer to live as aware of the moment as possible. We hold to the validity of the Ten Commandments. 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. Further, we understand from the ancients that Salvation History extends seven thousand years, with six thousand having already been accounted for, while this last thousand years of Salvation History making up the Millennial Reign of YAHWEH SABAOTH, the Sar Shalom. We hold that humankind is, in the natural, spiritually dead: each believer must seek to be "born from above," born as a spirit-being, a member of the family of elohim / Elohim (dei 'umaV gennhqhnai anwqen), and thus revive the new and right spirit within and thus become potentially complete. We hold to the validity of water ablution in the name of Yahshua the Anointed. We baptize those who cannot speak for themselves, including infants - as practiced by the first Nazoreans and Christians. We understand water ablution as a means of supernatural favor through which Yahweh cleanses the candidate from all outward sin, thus accomplishing far more in preserving us for a Kingdom than we do ourselves through the process of washing. We hold to the Immersion (or Baptism) in the Holy Spirit as a work of grace separate from new birth and water baptism, and that there are many evidences of Spirit Baptism, including zeal, power, tongues, prophecy and 'fruit unto holiness.' We hold firmly to the teaching of Entire Sanctification and Perfection, in which, through the obedience of a believer and a sovereign act of Yahweh, one may become perfected and complete in charity (agaph). 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 words. The Communion is an extension of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and may be celebrated as often as we desire with desire. We hold to Wesleyan piety, practice, theology and spirituality 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 centuries. These men and women freely used that which they considered the True Name; and we have no doubt they would today keep Torah and reject pagan practices of the contemporary Christians. 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 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 millenarian judgment, the perfection of saints and martyrs, the priesthood of all believers and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. |
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