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The State of Christianity
Today
Classic Christianity, as it developed from the late 1st
century A.D. onward, is far removed from the faith
of Abraham and the patriarchs. In fact, Abraham
knew nothing of the Christian doctrines of today.
Christianity is not the ancient Path -- it is a new, al-
most wholly pagan, Hellenistic, quasi-Gnostic,
amalgamation.
Although Christianity held on to the so-called "Old
Testament" (they added apocryphal books from the
Greek Septuagint), a great apostasy, or "falling
away" occurred. There are three great pillars of Bib-
lical faith: God, Torah, and Israel. Christianity repu-
Hope of Israel Ministries (Church of God) diated all three. Therefore, it is no great surprise that
The Berean Voice Magazine the Jews repudiated Christianity.
P.O. Box 6772
Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-6772, U.S.A. The pure teaching of the One Creator God -- whose
Name alone is YHVH, was perverted in various
Website (West Coast): ways: the Trinitarian idea of God in three Persons;
the idea that Christ was actually YHVH; the notion
http://hope-of-israel.org that Christ pre-existed as God; and the total lose of
Website (East Coast): understanding regarding the Shekinah Glory. Noah,
http://hope-of-isreal.net Abraham and Moses knew nothing of these perver-
sions -- nor did Jesus Christ, for that matter. He af-
E-mail: kiwihope@netscape.net firmed the Shema and rebuked those who even
called him "good."
Editor and Director: John D. Keyser
Israel, the beloved and chosen "apple of YHVH's
eye," was totally displaced and replaced with the
Contributing Writers
doctrine of the new "spiritual Israel" -- the largely
Gentile Christian Church. All the promises of the
James D. Dwyer Prophets about God's Plan for the Restoration of Is-
James D. Tabor rael were now applied, through allegory, to the
Deborah Taylor "Christians." The teaching of the Kingdom of God,
so tightly bound together in Scripture with the for-
Technical Advisor: David Hinkley tunes of Israel, was made into a dualistic, Hellenis-
tic, "hope of heaven" after death. This is classic
Christianity as it developed in contrast to the "faith
Hope of Israel Ministries -- of Abraham." Let us now set the record straight!
Preparing the Way for the
-- John D. Keyser
Return of Yehovah God and
His Messiah!
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