Orthodox Protestants vs Yeshua’s Torah
If Christianity is the truth of this world, why are there so many denominations?
Truth can’t be something to interpret, something to say, “You have your truth and I have my truth.”
Truth is an absolute reality based on undeniable facts.
The Earth is a sphere. That is an absolute truth.
There is nothing to interpret, since Christian astronauts have taken photos of our spherical Earth from space. I pointed out they were Christian because the conspiracy circles think they’re all fake astronauts who worship Satan, who apparently has nothing better to do than to deceive us about shapes.
Christianity is divided into two major camps: the Protestants and the Orthodox-style churches.
I’m going to include Catholics in this Orthodox group to make things simple.
If Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, why are there so many denominations of believers?
You’d think one truth would be uniform all the way across the board.
Right?
The answer to this dilemma is mankind.
My philosophy in faith is to trust the Bible over what men say it says.
If you don’t do that, you have heresies such as replacement theology and progressive churches.
If you have a progressive church, you don’t have a pastor—you have a demonic influence.
Even pastors, as a construct, are not necessarily how the original churches of the disciples of the apostles acted through men and women.
Most churches back then were done inside people’s homes or friendly-to-the-gospel synagogues.
What Is a Protestant?
A Protestant is against organized religion by way of church authority, choosing to believe in the authority of the Scriptures first, then submitting to a higher structure if called for. They are ministers of the Reformation, essentially the antithesis of Catholicism.
Protestants believe you shouldn’t just absorb theology from the church, and I’d have to agree, seeing as the Catholic Church loved throwing Christians in iron maidens and killing them for refusing to capitulate.
We don’t need a Pope. We need a King named Yeshua. That’s a creed that they’d support.
Protestantism is something I’d identify with over the other side, but only slightly. Because even these Christians hold on to the ghost of Marcion (as Pastor Douglas Hamp of The Way Congregation would put it and has often put it).
What Is Orthodoxy?
Orthodox churches believe in the Church’s power as a body of both spiritual submission and overarching interpretation of texts. Their stance is the Church put the Bible together, so the Bible is less authoritative than the Church. You can call yourself “right” all you want, that doesn’t make it so.
Catholics, for example, pray to saints (at least as far as the saints can intercede for us on our behalf) and consider Mary to be a perpetual virgin.
This is heretical on many levels.
We are to pray to the Father, through the name of Yeshua the Messiah, by the Holy Spirit.
“But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you” (Matthew 6:6 [ESV]).
Jesus commanded us to pray to our Father, Yahweh. However, He also tells us we can pray in the name of Yeshua.
“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (John 14:13 [ESV]).
Notice He never says to pray to Abraham or David. Anywhere.
So why would Mary be any different?
Am I saying a Catholic can’t perform a miracle or be right with God? Only God can decide that. I’m not saying that.
I just hate heresy (as it stands against the written text, not church codes).
This leaves us with a conundrum. If both sides of the issue are incorrect, though their creeds might line up in major ways positively, how can we know the truth?
The Torah and Messiah Together Is the Truth
The Bible is the Word of God, not man’s opinions or thoughts. I can’t make a sin any less a sin because of my interpretation or progressivism. Just like I can’t make any of my hairs white or black.
Jesus is the truth of all that is, who made the astonished Pilate ask, “What is truth?”
But before Jesus manifested in the flesh from the Father, what did the Bible tell us truth is?
“Thou art nigh, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth” (Psalm 119:151 [ESV]).
Not some commandments, not half the commandments, but all the commandments.
Christians have split into Orthodox groups, Protestant groups, and all manner of groups because they forget this simple truth.
“Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3 [YLT]).
“Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law” (Romans 3:31 [ESV]).
The answer to the dilemma is the Law of God.
The Torah is holy, just, and positive for all of humanity.
Jesus never came to do away with His Father’s commandments, and in fact, said if we love Him to keep His commandments.
Which—since Jesus is Yahweh in human form—means the Torah commands from Genesis to Deuteronomy.
There is no reason to turn to the left or the right of the divided in Christianity.
The answer to the denomination issue is Jesus is the truth.
But the Bible says the Torah is the truth.
So, based on logical reasoning and non-theological hoop-jumping, means Jesus and the Torah He gave on Mt. Sinai are both the truth.
The Law of God does not save us. Yeshua (which means “Yahweh is Salvation”) does that. But after we are saved, we are not to sin as best as we can.
It’s not about a list of rules and prohibitions so much as the heart, which, if positioned into the correct posture, wants to avoid these things to honor God.
None of us are perfect. I’ve sinned many times and in many ways. I need Jesus as much as the progressive pastor who doesn’t understand biblical order.
But the best way to find the truth is to see what the Bible defines as congruent with truth.
When studied, all signs point to Jesus and the Torah.
They are the truth.
There’s no need for division or denomination, folks.
Blessings and shalom to you as you study the truth: Jesus and the Torah.
