I don’t like being lied to, do you? I suspect that you don’t, yet it is really difficult to know when someone is lying to us, especially when they are good at it.
Do you know the most difficult type lie to recognize? It’s the one that comes from someone who honestly thinks they are telling you the truth!
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One of the most destructive lies that has been told to both Jews and Christians for nearly two millennia is this: Jesus created Christianity.
This lie has kept Jews from wanting to even hear anything about Jesus, and has kept Christians from knowing the truth about who Jesus is and what he really taught.
The reason this lie has been able to be so successful over all these years is because it has been passed down from one trusted source to another: we hear it from our religious leaders, from our parents, friends, relatives, and “biblical scholars”, who learned it from those who learned it from those who…well, you get the idea.
If you are wondering what these tremendous lies are, I don’t have the time to do that completely here- I suggest you invest in your eternal future (and a few bucks) to get my book (it’s available through the website or on Amazon):
But, since I did bring up the topic, let me give you a few of the major ones.
First off, Yeshua (that’s Jesus’s real name) never created Christianity. He was the sinless lamb of God, meaning that in order to be sinless he had to be 100% Torah observant, 100% of the time. Christians are told they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus, but taught that Jesus did away with the very laws he obeyed. So, how can a Christian be like Jesus when they reject the way he lived? The lie is that Jesus did away with the law- if he had, that means his “followers” would, by definition, be lawless and can never be saved.
Another lie is the idea of the Trinity being biblical: the truth is that it was fostered by a man named Tertullian, sometime in the middle of the 2nd Century. This lie has been one of the main issues with Jews and Christianity: if you have three divine entities- the Father (God), the son (Messiah), and the Holy Spirit- all being the same thing but in separate identities, well, whether you like it or not, you have three. Three-in-one or one-in-three, the operative word here is “three”. And three divine entities is not monotheism, it is polytheism. As such, no self-respecting, God-fearing, Torah-observing Jew would want anything to do with it.
And that is concurrent with the way Christianity was formed- not by God, or by Yeshua, but by men.
There are 6 main sects within Judaism, and they are all founded on the Torah (given by God) and the rules of Halacha (the Way to Walk), many of which are outlined in the Talmud (a rabbinical commentary on the Torah). Despite different ways to obey the Torah, we are all Jews obeying the Torah.
But since Christianity is not a biblical or God-created religion, the number of differences in how to worship are vast. Remarkably, when I asked Google how many different Christian religions there are, this is what I got:
There are more than 45,000 Christian denominations worldwide. These denominations represent a wide range of beliefs and practices within the Christian faith. While there are three main branches – Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy – the vast number of denominations reflects the diverse interpretations and expressions of Christian faith throughout history and across different cultures.
Wow! Talk about confusion. The one thing that we all know is that God never changes- he is the same today as he was yesterday, and he will be the same tomorrow. So, if he never changes, then the way he wants us to live, worship, and treat each other never changes either, right? Well, then, how can there be so many different ways?
You may say we Jews also have different ways to worship, but that isn’t the same because we all have the same foundation for our beliefs- the Torah.
But Christianity rejects the Torah (well, OK- they kept the 10 Commandments, but even with that they changed the first commandment, editing out the part about God saving us from Egypt), so what foundation do they have?
It ended up being the letters written from Paul, which often quote from the Tanakh (that is the “Jewish Bible”) but are so convoluted and misinterpreted that it has, as we see, led to such confusion and disagreement that there are literally thousands of ways that Christians have been told God says how to worship him.
Sorry, but that isn’t the unchanging God I know.
Look, as I said, there are too many lies and too long a dissertation to cover this topic completely here, so please consider buying my book. I am not trying to get on the NY Times Bestseller List (although that would be fine with me!), but my entire reason for this ministry is to give people what they need to know in order to make an informed decision about where they will spend eternity.
That book is going to help you decide wisely, and what do you have to lose except living a lie?
Thank you for being here and please remember to share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers, Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!