Why I'm Not A Christian

Jewish Thought Vs Christian Thought

YESHUA MESSIAH is my LORD. I have turned from my sins to G-D. I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that YESHUA is LORD and that HE alone died for my sins and that G-D raised HIM up on the Third Day. I have called on the NAME of the LORD to be saved, delivered, redeemed, sanctified and restored and made into a new creation, to have a new heart and mind that the New Covenant (G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah) can be written on and that my body has become Holy for the HOLY SPIRIT to dwell in (A Temple). I know I’m a citizen of Heaven and I seek and mediate on the things above where YESHUA sits at the Right HAND of G-D and that my life is hidden with YESHUA in G-D. That my Great High Cohen HaGadol makes intercession for me daily and that HIS PRECIOUS Living Blood covers my sins (Torah violations).

The old ‘self’ is dead and YESHUA had made me a new creation with a new heart and mind.

I have a new heart and a new mind which means I can know study, follow, observe and keep G-D’s Holy Torah/Laws because I clearly understand that is exactly what the New Covenant is. A New covenant made with the House of Israel, not gentiles. I clearly understand the gentiles are grafted in through Israel through the Precious Blood of YESHUA.

Ephesiains Ch 2: 13 But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah's blood.

Ephesians Ch 2:19 So then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers. On the contrary, you are fellow-citizens with God's people and members of God's family.

Romans Ch 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you - a wild olive - were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,

18 then don't boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.

Nowhere in Scripture are the gentiles taught to break away from the Jewish people and begin their own religion called ‘Christianity’. To be perfectly honest, I’m not even sure what Christianity is? There are numerous Christian denominations with their own bylaws and teachings—and some of the teachings are abominable. I have not read in Scripture where it is taught for the gentiles to call themselves ‘Baptist’ or ‘Methodist’ or ‘Presbyterian’ or ‘Church of G-D’ or ‘Holiness’ or ‘Pentecostal’ and so on. I have also not read in Scripture where is taught to have ‘White’, Black’, ‘Hispanic’ churches. The BODY of YESHUA is one and should worship G-D’ as one.

I see ‘Christian’ churches all over America, but I don’t know their purpose? America is the most wicked nation and vile nation on earth. A nation where sexual perverts are protected and allowed to march through the cities with innocent children present. A nation where murderous women demand the ‘Right’ to murder an innocent baby living in their womb. A nation that houses a demonic entity called ‘Hollywood’ that produces one evil movie after another while attacking anyone who loves YESHUA. A nation filled with corrupt, evil, politicians who lie and cheat and steal and deceive on a daily basis. A nation that took Prayer and the Bible out of the public schools but allows muslim prayer spaces (an abomination). A nation that tells biological males they can be females and protects them and lets them even compete against girls in sports. A nation with overpopulated prison systems, rampant homelessness, drug use, broken families, divorce, sexual immorality, drunkenness, violence, thief, corruption, murder.

Yet, there are countless Christian churches in the midst of this. What are those churches doing? If Christianity was the true religion then why is America so evil? I find that answer in Revelation. YESHUA speaks of a Church called Laodicea.

Christians reject G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah and claim some sort of ‘Grace’. Yes, by G-D’s Grace all are saved, but G-D’s Grace does not cancel HIS Holy Laws/Torah—they lead us to HIS Holy Laws/Torah at Mt. Sinai. I have lived in my community for over 15 years now and what I see is not Christian. I see many fancy church buildings, but not one time has anyone from those churches ever showed up at my front door and invited me to church. Only the old woman who lived next to me invited me to church a few years back. When I go out into my community, to the grocery store, an appointment and so on, I don’t see G-D’s love anywhere in people; very few.

I remember going to a church play at a church where I let my daughter attend a girls meeting each Wednesday in order for her to have friends (my daughter understands she is a Jew and so did the other girls). The girls put on a play and my wife and I attended to see the play. Horrible mistake. A woman sitting in front of us was wearing a low cut dress and when she bent over her…uh…top side was so visible I had to turn my head and look down. Was she not ashamed? Many of the women in that church were not dressed properly—wearing shirts with the shoulders cut out and blue jeans. Needless to say, we don’t allow our daughter to go there anymore.

At the Western Wall you will see a divider between the men and women and if you see the women they are all wearing ankle length dresses and sleeves down to their wrists. Most have their hair covered in reverence and respect for G-D.

I believe if YESHUA walked into a Christian church today the people would not recognize HIM and even be offended by HIS teachings. Many Christians comes across to me as worldly minded gentiles who want to live easy lives while believing they are the chosen ones.

The Jews are G-D’s Chosen and always will be. In the New Yerushalayim—the Eternal City of G-D—there are 12 Gates. Each gate has the name of one of the 12 tribes of Israel written on it, not a gentile name. The 12 foundations of the New Yerushalayim are named after YESHUA’s Talmidim—all Jewish men who kept, taught and obeyed the Holy Laws/Torah of G-D.

Isaiah Ch 2:2 In the acharit-hayamim the mountain of ADONAI's house will be established as the most important mountain. It will be regarded more highly than the other hills, and all the Goyim will stream there.

3 Many peoples will go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of ADONAI, to the house of the God of Ya'akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of ADONAI from Yerushalayim.

During YESHUA’s one thousand reign on earth, the gentiles will stream to the Mountain of ADONAI to learn HIS Holy Laws/Torah, not a man-made denomination like the Baptist or Methodist and so on. And the gentiles from all nations will take hold of a Jew, not the other way around.

Zechariah Ch 8:23 ADONAI-Tzva'ot says, 'When that time comes, ten men will take hold - speaking all the languages of the nations - will grab hold of the cloak of a Jew and say, "We want to go with you, because we have heard that God is with you."'"

G-D will always be with the Jewish people for they are HIS.

It seems to me the gentiles have started their own religion and have tried to take authority away from the Jewish people. They even try to convert Jews and tell them they don’t have to follow G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah anymore. Why do you think Jews fight so hard against Christianity? Yes, preaching the Good News about YESHUA MESSIAH is anyone’s life mission—but the gentiles try to pull Jews away from G-D’s True Teachings. And into what? A man-made denomination filled with man-made doctrines. Should a Jew stop observing G-D’s Commanded Feast, grab a pork sandwich and call himself a Baptist and attend services on the 1st day of the week (Sunday) instead of the 7th day of the week (Shabbat—a day the gentiles call Saturday).

The gentiles are grafted in through the Jews, not the other way around. YESHUA sent Jewish men to the nations to make them into Talmidim—men who obeyed and taught G-D’s Holy Laws-Torah. The nations were the gentiles.

Matthew 28:18 Yeshua came and talked with them. He said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

19 Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh,

20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age."

YESHUA didn’t command the gentiles to go to Israel and turn Jews into Christians who keep the wrong Shabbat, who do not obey G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah, who do not obey G-D’s commanded Feast, who do not wear their Tzit-Tzit’s as commanded, who do not eat kosher but instead insist on eating unclean animals. This is like having a pagan Greek come to Israel and tell Peter to follow his teachings.

It’s difficult enough to tell another Jewish brother or sister about YESHUA. To have Christians insert their man-made doctrines and beliefs only adds to the trouble because when a Jew accepts YESHUA as LORD they are labeled a ‘Christian’ which means they are accused of no longer keeping G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah and follow the ways of the gentiles. When a Jew accepts YESHUA as LORD he or she simply comes to the Cross of the True MESSIAH of Israel and surrenders his or her heart to HIM. And in doing so G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah become written on their minds and hearts (the New Covenant). A Jew doesn’t stop being a Jew because he or she believes in and follows YESHUA: That Jewish man or woman becomes Complete and Whole.

But, as in America, in Israel, there still remains wickedness and sin. In Zechariah Ch 14 it is stated that Yerushalayim will be divided and in Revelation Ch 11 the spiritual condition of Yerushalayim is called S’dom and Egypt. The spirit of the stiff-necked pharisees remain in Israel as a whole, but many Jews are coming to realize and know YESHUA is LORD. For now, the official stance of Israel is to reject YESHUA—but that will change someday soon.

Zechariah Ch 12:9 "When that day comes, I will seek to destroy all nations attacking Yerushalayim;

10 and I will pour out on the house of David and on those living in Yerushalayim a spirit of grace and prayer; and they will look to me, whom they pierced." They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son; they will be in bitterness on his behalf like the bitterness for a firstborn son.

This aligns with the Words of YESHUA MESSIAH:

Matthew Ch 23:39 For I tell you, from now on, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI.'"

And YESHUA will return to judge the nations, including America, for what they did to the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.

Joel Ch 3:1 "For then, at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Y'hudah and Yerushalayim,

2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Y'hoshafat [ADONAI judges]. I will enter into judgment there for my people, my heritage Isra'el, whom they scattered among the nations; then they divided my land.

YESHUA isn’t returning to defend America or Russia or China or Ireland—HE is returning to judge all the nations of the earth for what they did to the Jewish people and to Israel. ‘All’ nations include America because America will go to war against Yerushalayim.

Zechariah Ch 14:1 Look, a day is coming for ADONAI when your plunder, [Yerushalayim], will be divided right there within you.

2 "For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war. The city will be taken, the houses will be rifled, the women will be raped, and half the city will go into exile; but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city."

And in Christianity today I see many of the man-made denominations openly attacking Israel and the Jewish people.

The only common factor I have with a Christian is that we both believe YESHUA MESSIAH is the Risen SON of G-D. I agree there is that. Not all Christians are bad, either, even if they do attend a man-made denomination. There are many Christians who don’t wear fancy suits and write books, who walk around America truly trying to do what YESHUA teaches us to do. And in them I see the love of YESHUA. I don’t call them Christians…I call them ‘Children of G-D’, for that is what they are.

It is the doctrines of Christianity that I stand back from and dust off my hands. Are all the man-made Christian denominations supposed to be considered a whole? How do you know if the Baptist or Methodist or some other denomination is teaching the true Teachings of G-D when they all claim they are? Why are there so many different denominations to begin with? And where in the Scriptures did YESHUA command gentiles to break apart from the Jewish people and start their own religion? From the beginning of the Bible until the very end G-D’s focus is on the Jewish people. In the Book of Revelation G-D pours HIS Wrath out on the entire world—and it is the Jewish people and the land of Israel that YESHUA returns to save after they have been judged one final time for their sins.

I also want to ask: Why don’t Christians observe G-D’s commanded Feast?

Zechariah Ch 14: 16 Finally, everyone remaining from all the nations that came to attack Yerushalayim will go up every year to worship the king, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, and to keep the festival of Sukkot.

17 If any of the families of the earth does not go up to Yerushalayim to worship the king, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, no rain will fall on them.

All nations that attacked Yerushalayim will be required to come before ADONAI and keep the Feast of Sukkot during YESHUA’s one thousand year reign. So why aren’t the gentiles keeping the Feast of Sukkot now? Do they not realize All the Commanded Feast of G-D lead to YESHUA? Why do they paint chicken eggs and tell their children the eggs come from a rabbit (and that is associated with fertility which is connected to a false god of fertility the Babylonians worshiped). Why do Christians even associate with an evil day called halloween? Why don’t they demand the day be abolished and destroyed? My wife and I turn out our lights on that night and lock our doors.

When I stand back and look at Christianity as a whole I walk away. I’m not condemning Christianity, I’m openly stating that as a Messianic Jew I see no connection between Christianity and the Bible. How can one call them self a Christian yet deny and refuse to obey G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah? How can one call them self a Christian yet keep the wrong Sabbath when there is plenty of factual information that proves the catholic cult changed the Shabbat from Saturday to Sunday. How can one call them self a Christian yet follow the ways of the world, eat unclean animals, dress inappropriately when in worship, go to starbucks (an evil company that rebels against G-D’s Holiness), and so much more.

If one denomination truly followed the True Teachings of Scripture then I would clap my hands and rejoice. Instead I find none. Instead I find this:

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Maybe Christianity in America started off blessed by G-D? I’m not saying it wasn’t because America was once a very blessed nation. I’m not sure? Separation from the Jews began long before the first gentile arrived in America which means separation from G-D’s True Teachings also began long before the first gentile arrived in America. How many Men of G-D were not Jews but were still put to death by the demonic catholic cult because they truly followed YESHUA in their hearts and stepped away from the evils of man-made doctrines? History is filled with many G-D fearing gentiles that were not Jews. I’m not bashing the gentiles. I’m stating that the teachings of Christianity today, for the most part, are not supported by Scripture and, in fact, many of the teachings rebel against G-D’s Truth.

This is why I don’t call myself a Christian. I’m not sure what a Christian really is? Is someone who goes to a Methodist church different than someone who goes to a Baptist church, and why are there many sub-denominations in those churches? Why is there American Baptist, Southern Baptist, Primitive Baptist, Independent Baptist? Is a Presbyterian different from a Lutheran and if so, why? The Body of YESHUA is One Body.

Weren’t the Talmidim of YESHUA all of one mind and spirit?

Acts Ch 2:46 Continuing faithfully and with singleness of purpose to meet in the Temple courts daily, and breaking bread in their several homes, they shared their food in joy and simplicity of heart,

47 praising God and having the respect of all the people. And day after day the Lord kept adding to them those who were being saved.

Judaism has kept the Jewish people united since the days of Moshe. I follow the teachings of Messianic Judaism, which is not very different from Orthodox Judaism. Simply put: I follow the teachings of G-D, not man. If G-D said do it, then I do it and believe it and obey in faith. If G-D said don’t do it then I don’t do it and destroy whatever evil tries to separate me from G-D (a lifelong battle). My G-D commands me to keep HIS Feast, and I do so in great joy. My G-D commands me to wear my Tzit-Tzits as a reminder to keep and obey HIS Holy Laws/Torah, and I do so in great joy. My G-D commands me to keep HIS Shabbat, and I do so in great joy. My G-D commands me to eat clean animals, fish and birds, and I do so in great joy.

My G-D commands me to learn, keep and observe HIS Holy Laws/Torah (a lifelong journey) and I do so in great joy for in G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah I learn how to live Holy for HIM. I learn what true justice, mercy, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, discernment, compassion, joy, humility, meekness…and eternal life is. I also learn what sin is and the punishment for sin: death.

I can not live Holy for my G-D outside of HIS Holy Laws/Torah. It is impossible.

If Christianity teaches me to not obey my G-D’s Holy Laws Torah, then it is a false teachings I destroy in my heart and stand away from it.

Yes, we are saved by Grace, but by Grace do we enter into the New Covenant.

This is why I’m a Messianic Jew and forever will be as long as I walk this earth. I’m not bashing gentiles, but I do see them changing G-D’s Holy Word into many different false teachings. I know satan is the evil force behind that. Many who call themselves Christians refuse to truly live for G-D in absolute Obedience and Holiness and still cling to the world and find whatever denomination that makes them feel good. They like the title but not the responsibility.

The next time you see a Jew, if you are a person who calls them self a Christian, remember to approach them with the understanding that they are a Jew. Do not have the mindset of: ‘I’m a Christian gentile that must make this poor, lost, Jew a Christian.’ Jews aren’t interested in your doctrines. The main goal of anyone—Jew and gentile—is to preach the Good News of YESHUA MESSIAH to the world. YESHUA alone changes the heart and mind. You do your duty, apart from man-made doctrines as commanded, and YESHUA will do the rest.

And please remember: It was the Jewish People G-D chose as HIS own and took out of the Land of Egypt with Great Power, Signs, Wonders and Judgments, not the gentiles. Moshe, a Jewish man, taught G-D’s Holy Laws/Torah to the Jewish people to keep and teach the world. That has not changed. What has changed is the heart of the gentiles toward G-D’s chosen people and satan is behind that evil. That is why Christianity today is leading people more toward destruction than toward YESHUA.

Shalom and blessings.