Question: If you look through the scriptures you will see "that the truth that was originally preached by HaMasiach," and his followers, would be perverted by wolves coming in and not sparing the flock. And as you read further you will see that an apostasy would begin and a falling away from a foundation of truth that has been established by HaMasiach and his followers would occur. And thus the birth of Christianity begins.

Christians just pick and choose what they want to believe. They do not believe in nor teach the seventh day Sabbath rest and the perpetual covenants which are Laws of Elohim. These laws are the Feasts of YHWH such as the seven annual Sabbaths or Holy days. They also continue to break other laws and eat swine flesh and other unclean meats. They also observe all the pagan religious practices that have been going on for the past 5000 years but they now call it "Christ" mass, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving, "which is a stench in the nostrils of YHWH."

Christianity does not want anything to do with what they call "Jewish-ness," however, HaMasiach was Jewish and he observed all the laws, the seventh day Sabbath rest, Feasts and Sabbaths of Elohim and so did all the early followers of HaMasiach. But Christianity rejects this, ignorantly thinking that they are serving the same HaMasiach.

Christians killed those who worshipped HaMasiach on the Sabbath day and mandated a day of worship on "Sun" day in reverence to their pagan customs and practices. They made it against the law to worship on the Sabbath. Then they forced Sunday worship and a Greek named Messiah called (J) Iseous on the people. They hated and killed the Jews and anyone who practiced Hebrew laws (meaning the Commandments of YHWH), and they did this in the name of the newly found Greek named Messiah!

The false religion, Christianity, which began between 200 A.D. and 350 A.D., ruled the world through the "unholy" Roman Empire, and spread their lawless god beliefs, complete with a Greek named Messiah, along with the titles of their pagan gods throughout the world, and even to the present day.

We really don’t want to co-mingle our beliefs with a pagan religion, do we?

A Believer…Truth Restoration Ministries

Answer: Dear Believer,

Thank you for your heartfelt and sincere message. I can assure you that I am profoundly familiar with the presuppositions that inform your arguments and reasoning and having tested and tried them, find them unbiblical. I accept the Bible as we have it today, the translations coming from Hebrew, Greek and in a few cases Aramaic. (By the way – history demonstrates that Jesus Christ, to whom you refer as HaMasiach, spoke and taught using the Aramaic language).

We believe in the whole counsel of God, both Old and New Testaments of the Bible (as I presume you do as well, as you specifically quote Jude and 1 Peter, as well as alluding to passages in Timothy and Matthew) – and thus we include the counsel and teaching of books such as (without precluding others) Hebrews, Romans, Galatians and Colossians, along with the Gospels, as well as the book of Acts that gives us valuable insight into the Judeo foundations of Christianity. The New Testament clearly addresses the concerns you raise, and how God inspired Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians to be one (see Ephesians 2).

At Plain Truth Ministries we base our faith and believe in the Lord – in the one God – in the fact that he came to save us in the person of Jesus – and in the sufficiency of his cross, and the strength and power of his resurrection. The matter of the old and new covenants are explained in the books I mentioned above, including the passage in 2 Corinthians 3:7-18.

We acknowledge that we are saved solely by his grace, not by anything we have done, we currently do or perform, or any future meritorious work, and that we ourselves are nothing, that we are simply clay pots that he in his mercy uses. We reject allegations that our faith is pagan, that our worship of the one true God is a stench in his nostrils, or that God recognizes one, and only one way that the human mouth might articulate his name.

We believe and know that Jesus was a Jew – and honor him and the Jewish people. We also believe and know that as a Jew, Jesus was and is God in the flesh, that he continues to have the body that he added to his divinity (Philippians 2), and that his body is today glorified and immortal, and that he will return to this earth for Jew and Gentile alike. We believe that the Son of God died for the whole world, a world that God loves and that the gospel is inclusive, by grace and not by race.

We believe that all of the truth that is necessary has been given to us in the Bible, and that the only source necessary to "restore truth" is that Bible. For example, you mention Jude 3 – which clearly states that the faith has already been entrusted to the saints – "one for all" – and was not inspired by God to be understood as justification for some extra-biblical esoteric "truth restoration".

Indeed there have been and are heretics, heresies, apostates and apostasies – just as the Scriptures you mention predict – and the history of Christianity is filled with pagan attempts (among them Gnosticism, Aryanism, Pelagianism, etc.) to change and alter the gospel of Jesus Christ – "the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints."

Thanks for your message, and we pray that our response will be a blessing to you. May God be with you and bless you.

In his glorious name,

Greg Albrecht