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To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Alan Markoff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

This is a Messianic Web site that will share some of there Ideas. I am not privy to all that is in this Web Site so there may be some issues I disagree with. All I do know is that there is no hate on the basis of their beliefs. I would suggest that people take the time to read and make their own Judgements. shema.com shema.com Writings off the site; Messianic Judaism believes this New Covenant has already been made. Through His death and resurrection Messiah Yeshua put into effect this new relationship with God. Another way of saying "New Covenant" is "New Testament." Messiah Yeshua already established this Covenant, and if we believe in Him we can enter into this new relationship with God right now. Rabbinic Judaism is missing the New Covenant. God wanted the Jewish people enter the New Covenant with Messiah, not take the path of Talmudic Judaism. Messianic Judaism is the Judaism that is consistent with the Jewish Bible. We retain the principles of approaching God on His terms - by having a sacrifice and a priest. We have entered the New Covenant which is already in effect. We believe in the Messiah who makes a personal relationship with God possible. We are the Judaism that is most faithful to the Jewish Bible. It is Rabbinic Judaism that has deviated from the authentic original Biblical Judaism - not us.(Jews) Alan

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 4:03:00 PM
From: Chris land	Respond to of 39621

1. There is but one living and true God. 2. The attributes of God are the qualities, elements and perfections which belong to Him. They belong to Him and are parts of His divine nature - not that His whole being consists of a combination of the same, but because they are the forms and expressions of His being which He has revealed to man. 3. These attributes are natural and moral. The natural attributes reveal His existence as an infinite and rational spirit; that is self-existence, freedom, omnipotence, onmipresence, onmiscience, wisdom. the moral attributes are holiness, righteousness, justice, goodness, love, grace, mercy, and truth. 4. As known to men on earth God is an invisible spirit, whom no man hath seen nor can see. He is eternal and self-existent. He creates beings with immortality, but God alone possesses eternity. He is infinite, filling all space in the entire universe, embracing all worlds. He is omnipresent, i.e., infinite in power; shown by all His creations from the infinitely great to the infinitely small. All His acts are done by the exercise of His volition, and are seen by man in the universality, variety and multitude of His works. God's omnipotence is limited only by His moral perfections. God cannot lie nor do any bad act, although he has the power. 5. God is omnipresent. the creator, uphloder, and governor of all things. He is also omniscient, all things being open and naked before His eyes. God's wisdom in infinite, embracing all knowledge and is independent of all His creatures. We can tell Him nothing which He does not know, but His intelligent, infinite intuition comprehends all things past, present or future. this intelligence is perfect and absolute. man analyzes things to find out their nature.God knows the nature without the analysis.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: Chris land	Respond to of 39621

6. The foreknowledge of God is also absolute. How the foreknowledge of God is to be reconciled with man's free agency and accountability is indeed to men in the world a dark problem, but the in Scriptures both are clearly taught, and faith accepts what reason cannot reconcile. Some of the churches have denied man's moral freedom. Others maintain that God in the exercise of His ominscience, like His omnipotence, abstains from knowing what His creatures will do under certain given circumstances. But the foreknowledge of God itself, unrevealed to men, does not impose nor even hint to me any course of conduct whatever; it in no degree affects His liberty of action. Man neither sins nor follows holiness, as the result of God's foreknowledge; so nothwithstanding God's foreknowledge, he has made man in His image, a free moral being. 7. God is infinitely wise, always knows what is best, always adopts means which will best accomplish his purposes. That is wisdom; for wisdom is the art of turning to best account our knowledge. Both in creation and providence God's wisdom is seen. His wisdom and His works everywhere confirm each other as being of God. no higher wisdom has ever been seen or known than God's wisdom in the plan of human redemption. it solves the problem of God's justice in justifying the believer in Jesus Christ. 8. The perfect goodness of God is seen in the benevolence which embraces all mankind and provides for their welfare. His merciful dealings with men declare His goodness; it is also seen in his unmerited favor, drawing man to salvation and in the use of so many means to this end, also in the abundant provision which He has made for man's present and eternal happiness.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 4:38:00 PM
From: Chris land	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

9. How sin can ecist in the world with all its terrible consequences in connection with God's righteous government, is an awful and difficult problem, the complete solution of which is not possible to man in his earthly life. But sin does exist, and god permits it for reasons of His own, not fully revealed to men. In heaven it could not be so. No taint of sin can ever enter the gates of that city. if an angel should again sin God would instantly cast him down to hell. 10. Righteosness and justice are divine perfections. It is holiness exhibited in government. Truth or faithfulness of God is much the same as His righteousness. All He says and does is true. his veracity is an element of his character. God cannot lie. As God is eternal his truth remains the same. Whatever is out of harmony with His revealed truth, the same is a lie. To the question,"What is truth?" to answer "To know God as He has revealed Himself to man is truth of the highest order." Our Lord declared: "I am the way, the truth and the life." All things taught or believed that are out of harmony with His clear revelations are both false and misleading. 11. The eternal God has revelaed Himself to men as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. the Son of God is and always was divine. He is the express image of the Father. There have been and are many errors and heresies in the church. But we worship one Truine God neither confounding the person, nor dividing the substances of the same. for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost is one God.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Chris land	Respond to of 39621

13. The Holy Ghost is one with the father and with the Son. Equal in eternity, power and glory. In creation he moved upon the face of the waters and developed form and beauty out of disorder and confusion. He proceeded from the Father and from the Son, and took up his abode with his church on earth. He has ever been with us since his coming on Pentecost. He is the comforter, guide and sanctifier of His people. 14. God made man upright. He was both material and spiritual and possessed of a divine life, and made in the image of God. He could hold communion with God, with all that is divine, as well as with the material universe. he was made but a little lower than the angels, and was crowned with glory and honor and had dominion over the works of God's hands in the earth. He was a companion of his Father and Creator, capable of admiring, adoring and enjoying God. While he was material and possessed and animal nature, as he came from the hands of God, yet he was an intellectual, moral, pure and holy being. He was placed under law with life and death before him. Adam rebelled; sin was born on earth. The glory of the Lord departed from him. Man fell, and felt his guilt and was alienated from God. the stream of humanity was contaminated at its source. The first pair became sinful. their descendants of necessity were in their image fallen and deprave. So by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin; and so death passed upon men, for that all have sinned. Our nature sinned in Adam and the stream became polluted at the fountain head. This depravity became universal for all the faculties and powers of the soul and body were brought under the power of evil.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 5:08:00 PM
From: Chris land	Respond to of 39621

15 We universally believe that the death of Christ was vicarious and propitiatory and that by it divine justice is satisfied, and God can be just and the justifier of all who believe in Christ jesus, and that pardon and salvation is freely offered to all men, upon repentence and faith. 16. We believe God did foreordain and devise a plan from the foundation of the world by which he would save man, and further, he did foreordain from the beginning, all men throughout the ages who would accept and be willing to conform to this plan, should be saved; so that everyone in harmony with His power and liberty of choice who shall choose eternal life through God's plan was foreordained to eternal salvation. 17. True repentence is a condition of the soul before God wrought by the operations of the Spirit of God upon the heart and soul of man wherreby he is made to see and feel the sinfulness of his sins, and also to forsake them utterly and with full purpose of heart to yield obedience to God in the future.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Chris land	Respond to of 39621

18. Justification can only follow true repentence and is an act of God's free grace wherein he pardoneth the sins of man, and accepteth him as righteous in his sight, only for the sake of Christ. 19. True unfeigned faith in God believes all that God had said, commanded, promised or threatened. It is dependent upon testimony, and is valuable to us as the truth itself. We can believe in men. We are responsible for our faith, for one may believe a lie as he does the truth. Only the truth can make him free. True saving faith leads the soul to trust itself to the all-atoning merits of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 20 Adoption is an act of God whereby the believing sinner is received into the family of God, with all the rights and privileges of his children in which he becomes an heir of God with a right and title to eternal live.

To: Chris land who wrote (10469)	1/3/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Chris land	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

21. The new birth of which our Lord spoke is that mighty change wrought of God in the soul of man when he imparts to him eternal life and renews him in the image of God. This change is the work of the Holy Spirit wrought in man, convincing him of sin, and leading him to repentence and faith whereby he is born from above with eternal life as a gift from God. - A revelation given to Seneca Sodi, a Greek of Jewish descent, a fine scholor, a firm believer in christianity, and a thorough student of the the Bible, transcribed later by Rev. Elwood Scott as God saw fit.