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WE BELIEVE:
1.
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
That the
Bible consists of the Tenach (the Torah, the Prophets
and the Writings) and the writings commonly known
as the Brit Chadasha, the New Covenant. It is
the only infallible, inerrant, and authoritative
word of God. We recognize its divine inspiration
and accept its teachings as our final authority
in all matters of faith and practice.
2.
GOD
That the
unity of God is taught in the Shema. God is one
- echad: a united one, a composite unity, eternally
existent in plural oneness. He is a personal God
who created us, and He exists forever in three
Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
A. God
the Father is the King of the Universe, immortal,
invisible, the only wise God, without beginning
and without end. He is Spirit. He sent His Son,
Yeshua the Messiah, and draws people to Him.
B. God
the Son is Yeshua - Jesus, the Messiah. He possesses
both Divine and human natures. He was born of
a virgin. The Son is God and is worshiped as God.
He has always existed. He is the Passover Lamb
who takes away the sin of the world. We believe
in His sinless life and His perfect obedience
to the Torah, His atoning death, burial, and bodily
resurrection, His ascension into heaven, and His
personal return in power and glory to this earth
in order to consummate the prophesied purposes
concerning His kingdom.
C. God
the Holy Spirit is a person, possessing all the
attributes of Deity. He was active in the creation
of the universe and continues to be active through
His providence. He convicts the world of sin,
righteousness and judgment; He regenerates, sanctifies,
immerses, indwells, seals, empowers, illumines,
guides, teaches and gives gifts to all believers.
3.
MAN
That man
was created in the image of God but through disobedience
fell and became separated from God. All men are
born with a sinful nature. Man's only hope for
redemption is by having faith in Messiah Yeshua.
This results in salvation and regeneration by
the Ruach HaKodesh which is the new birth. We
believe that Yeshua died for our sins; that all
who believe in Him are made right with God, not
by any of their own works of righteousness, but
by Messiah's perfect righteousness and atoning
blood, and that there is no other name under heaven
by which we must be saved. Salvation has always
been by faith, and that works of law, or righteous
acts, have never saved anyone.
4.
RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT
A. In His promised coming in the air to receive
Messianic Believers to Himself.
B. In
the bodily resurrection of both the just and the
unjust: the just to everlasting life and the unjust
to eternal death and separation from God.
5.
ISRAEL
That the
election of Israel is irrevocable. We believe
in the physical and spiritual restoration of Israel.
A great miracle in our day has been the re-establishment
of the state of Israel according to prophecy.
6.
MESSIANIC JUDAISM
That Jewish
people (physical descendants of Abraham through
Isaac and Jacob, whether through patrilineal or
matrilineal descent) who place their faith in
Messiah Yeshua, continue to be Jewish according
to the Scriptures. Gentiles who place their faith
in Yeshua, are grafted into the Jewish Olive Tree
of faith becoming spiritual sons and daughters
of Abraham.
That all
of God's word to Israel is still valid. We believe
that "Biblical Judaism" is the faith
of first century believers, which we seek to practice.
We believe that the Holy Days given by God to
Israel with their fulfillment in the Messiah Yeshua
are still valid and are worth observing.
We acknowledge
that the New Covenant Messianic Community (the
Church) is composed of both Jews and Gentiles
who have received Yeshua the Messiah as the promised
Redeemer. The "middle wall of partition"
has been broken down and now we worship the God
of Israel together.
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