How are Messianics different from Christians?
Both claim to follow the same Person, yet in practice differ in every way

 
WHO OR WHAT ARE MESSIANICS?

Messianics are followers of Yahusha of Natsarith, the Messiah of Israel, who also obey Torah (The Covenant with Israel).

Our belief is that all people outside the Covenant must engraft through the Covenant, written upon their hearts by the Spiritual indwelling of the Messiah.

DIFFERENCES:

Messianics:  the true Hebrew Name of the Creator is called upon: Yahuah (yod-hay-uau-hay).

The Messiah’s true Name is used:  Yahusha.

The weekly Sabbath is observed as a day of rest, according to the Commandment.

The 7 annual festivals commanded for Israel to observe are observed, and there is no observance of a single “Christian” festival, which are all derived from Pagan festivals.

 

Christians:  the Creator's Name is avoided, and instead "devices" or generic terms are used to refer to Him.  Examples are LORD, GOD, and the mongrelized hybrid, "JEHOVAH".  The Messiah's Name is corrupted beyond all recognition, to a meaningless Greco-Roman one.

The weekly Sabbath is NOT observed as a day of rest, but is thought to be moved to "Sun-day".

The 7 annual festivals commanded for Israel to observe are ignored, and replaced with 7 "sacraments", violating the command to not add or take away from Torah.

Examples of these differences:

Messianic                        Christian

Observe the Festivals

of Yahuah (Dt. 16, Lev. 23)

                                      Don't obey the Covenant,

                                      rather adhere to various 

                                      "sacraments".

Sabbath (7th day)

                                      Sunday (1st day)            

Passover

                                      Ash Wednesday

                                      Lent

                                      Easter

Matsah

Shabuoth

                                       Pentecost

Yom Teruah

                                       All Saints Day

Yom Kaphar

                                       Christmas

Sukkoth

                                       Epiphany

Hebrew calendar

                                       Roman calendar

Ultimate determination:

The Messiah of Israel observed all of these practices listed under Messianics.

 

 WHO OR WHAT ARE CHRISTIANS?

Without knowing it, Christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture of names, terms, and festivals, all adopted intact from Pagan sources, yet adapted or mixed carefully with ideas and people from the Hebrew Scriptures. 

The mixing together of practices and beliefs is called syncretism.  These heresies began through the teachings of Simon Magus, and eventually became the institution known as Roman Catholicism.

Every detail of Scriptural observance was omitted, and replaced with new observances. With skillfully crafted reasoning over many centuries, the formerly Pagan observances were camouflaged or wrapped in new meanings.

Examples:

Sacraments  - Yahuah never commanded them, hinted at them indirectly, or mentioned any such thing.  They add to the Torah, against Dt. 12.

Sun-day - the Day of the Sun.  Many other "strange festivals" were invented, all being adaptations from former sun worship.

 

Easter Day - the Pagan festival of the impregnation of Mother Earth by the rays of the springtime sun. Ostara, Astarte, Eostre, Asherah, Eastron, and other names were used for this Pagan deity. It became adopted to refer to Yahusha’s day of resurrection.

 

Christmas - The winter solstice festival, commemorated as the nativity of the sun, re-thought by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 CE, now promoted as the birthday of the Messiah of Israel. Wreaths (wombs), trees (phalluses), tinsel (semen) & balls (testes) were used to observe the sexual aspects of this Pagan ritual. The tree was an altar where offerings were placed for the deity (Asherah).

The womb wreaths represented Baal, and the phallus trees represented Asherah. This is a practice inherited from the ancient Canaanites, specifically Jezebel.

 

Ultimate determination:

The Messiah of Israel observed none of these practices.

1 John 2:3-6
"We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His Commands.  The man who says, "I know him ," but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.  But if anyone obeys His Word, Elohim's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him:  Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Yahusha did." 

If we walk "as" Yahusha did, we do the things He did, and observe the observances He observed, according to the Word of Yahuah.  He lived as our example.  So, how does it become appropriate for us to ignore all the things He did, and embrace Christmas, Easter, and Sun-day, observances borrowed from Pagan cultures?

This brief comparison page is intended to EXPOSE the darkness and deception that has overtaken the world.

"For you were once darkness, but now you are LIGHT in (the Rabbi).  Live as children of LIGHT (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)  and find out what pleases (Yahuah).  Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."   Eph 5:8-12

You may consider the darkness and Pagan practices exposed;  learn more, and how we are supposed to be living by reading your Scriptures, the Word of Yahuah, and order the book "Fossilized Customs" by clicking on the "CATALOG" button at the top of this page.

Find out what pleases Yahuah, your Creator.

CHRISTIANITY:   Synagogue of Shatan

   Christianity is a hybrid religion based on many of the teachings of Yahusha ha'Mashiach, but not the same religion He taught.  It is a mixture of the Torah of Yahuah with customs from Babylonian Paganism.  Christianity is a way of life about the Messiah of Israel, divided into thousands of sects over interpreting the Torah, with special days of the year adopted from Satanic, Pagan origins.   ALL Yahuah-commanded feast days are neglected (see Lev. 23, Deut. 16).  A system of beliefs based on Messiah, but acting in ignorance, through tradition, their customs stem from Pagan symbols and observances.   Several centuries after the original students of Yahusha, the heretical path originally established by Shimon the Magician (Simon Magus) began to overtake the true faith, and eventually Catholicism developed from it.  From Rome, an authoritarian organism modeled in the "image" of the Roman beast controlled many nations.  Eventually, "daughters" of this system broke away, carrying with them the "mark" of the Sun-day "sabbath".  It became the "synagogue of Shatan". 

   The word "Christianity" is not found in the received text at all, and is not found in any concordance.  The practices are a blend of ideas about the Messiah of Israel, attached to old Pagan observances in order to camouflage them from their origins.   It is a monstrosity or hybrid blending of a diverse number of Pagan religions, and the knowledge of this is kept from its adherents.  Believing and doing are often separated in its philosophy.   Obedience is praised if it fits traditional norms, but condemned if it fits Scriptural instructions.    Scripture is divided, and a division exists between the Hebrew / Yahudi (Jew) and the Gentile Christian in terms of what is to be obeyed or ignored in the Torah, based on this difference.   So, in their teachings, there is not one body of believers, although this will be denied by most.

   The word, Christianity, is not found anywhere in Scripture.  Encyclopedias tell us it is a religion, and that it was founded by "Jesus Christ".   It was really founded by "Simon Magus", and his tomb is under the altar in "St. Peter's" Cathedral at Rome.  The topic of Christianity is not found in Scripture either.  What Scripture DOES acknowledge as the "way" is the "WORD OF YAHUAH", and the "TORAH OF YAHUAH".  That should be our way; and it is certainly what Yahusha taught  --  He didn't teach Christianity.   No follower of Yahusha ever taught us anything about Sun-day, Easter, Christmas, popes, nuns, holy water, sacraments, or any separation of Yahusha's body into a "priesthood" and "laity".   We are ALL priests on level ground with one another, and He is our High Priest.  If you are studying something, and embrace it as a way of living, shouldn't you search it out completely and find where its roots lead?   If the root is good, then the fruit it bears will also be good.  Christianity is a usurper, and a religion without Hebrew roots  -- only Greco-Latin ones.   Esau, and his Edomite descendants, were also usurpers.   They sought to steal the birthright and promises that were only given to Israel.  This is what is at the heart of Replacement Theology.

Christianity, therefore, is like Esau and the Edomites.  They modify the Covenant and claim legitimacy.

Orthodox Rabbinical Judaism -  how about that?

BRIEF HISTORY LESSON

RABBI  is a term which the Pharisees were known by.

The Pharisees grew very powerful after the city and Temple of Yahuah was destroyed in 70 CE. 

The most powerful "rabbi" within Pharisaism arose in the early 2nd century, and he took it upon himself to put the "oral law" into a written form, called the Talmud.  His name was AKIBA. 

He perceived the Yahudim who followed Yahusha to be a serious threat, so he promoted a false Messiah (Bar Kochba) as a scheme to legally kill the Natsarim, the followers of Yahusha. 

As Bar Kochba rose-up as the false Messiah, his followers challenged the Roman occupation.  The Natsarim would not fight Rome over this false Messiah, and so this gave Bar Kochba (and the instigator, AKIBA), the legal authority to exterminate them - at least in their eyes. 

So, many Natsarim were killed, and even more driven away. 

Thus, Rabbinical Judaism (Pharisaism) took complete control over the early development of the post-Temple era, and it is still alive and well as an apostate form of religion, mostly due to this "Talmud", begun by AKIBA.  In it there are fabulous tales of AKIBA's greatness, and horrendous tales about Yahusha. 

The concept of "RABBI" is central to the Talmud's idea of eternal life.  Without a "RABBI", one cannot possibly acquire eternal life, according to Talmud. 

Talmud declares that all Rabbis are infallible. 

AKIBA's Talmud also declares that YAHUAH is but one of 70 rabbis, and He must go along with what the majority says.

Many Messianic leaders quote from this Talmud, unwittingly using AKIBA's rationalizations in their own teachings.  Since Yahusha was called a "RABBI" (my Teacher), it is likely that He was mistakenly thought to be a Pharisee, or the dominance of Pharisaism was so great that all who taught were customarily referred to by this term. 

The word "RABBI" is not found in the TaNaKh 

(commonly known as the O.T.).

  “For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Yahudim throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect (G139, hairesis) of the Nazarenes (G3480) . . .”  The Greek word hairesis above gives us our word “heresy”  translated “sect”.  So we know the “sect” being spoken of was not the Christians, because Christians developed later.  The word christianos was used twice in the Greek text as a device of scorn, since in the ancient world it conveyed a much different sense than it does today.  The use of the word christianos did not “name” the sect, but it was a derisive, scornful label that meant they were like gullible, dumb beasts, or “cretins”.

   The word “christianos” (Latin, Christianus) was a term of scorn, traced back through a related word which history never “revised”:

cre·tin   (krēt'n) n.  

1.  A person afflicted with cretinism.

Slang:  An idiot.

[French crétin, from French dialectal, deformed and mentally retarded person found in certain Alpine valleys, from Vulgar Latin *christiānus, Christian, human being, poor fellow, from Latin Chrīstiānus, Christian; see Christian.]  Source:  The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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This brief overview was prepared by Lew White, TORAH INSTITUTE

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