The Term Christian does it exist in the Bible by Rabbi Simon

 

7th October 2008

Modified 17th Dec 2009 

 

Torah – These are the first five books in the Bible written by Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy contained in every Christian Bible but vastly ignored by Christians)

 

Tanach – means the Hebrew Bible from Genesis to Malachi

YHWH   -  Yahuweh in modern Hebrew script.

Elohim/El – reference to the Holy One of Israel.

AFNHSS – Abrahamic-Faith Nazarene Hebraic Study Scriptures 

 

 

 

Claim:  The word Christian is in the Bible so I can call myself Christian.

 

Then the three Scriptural references which are given in the following verses as proof that the word “Christian” exists in the Renewed Covenant (NT) Scriptures.  Now I am amazed.  Like one can do anything with statistics one can do anything with the English language but let’s just step out of this error and have a closer look.

 

Act 11:26 (NKJV) And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

 

Act 26:28 (NKJV)  Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

 

1 Peter 4:16 (NKJV) Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

 

Now here comes the part which most are not aware of therefore the card of ignorance is played by those in the hierarchy to promote an ancient error. 

 

None of the above words which were spoken in the Greek and can ever be translated as the term Christian at any time.  How do we know this? 

 

Problem 1 – Greek or Hebrew

You would have to prove that the Messiah Yahushua came speaking Greek to a Jewish Audience which we know He didn’t.  No Jewish person wanted to speak in the Hellenist language as they hated it.  They were speaking a mixture of Hebrew/Aramaic and some of them knew some Greek but would consider it a sacrilege to call Yahuweh as Kurios.  Most of you I know might have a hard time understanding this. 

 

Consider any Muslim today trying to call Allah by any other term such as Krishna (Hindu deity) or Gott (German deity the old term for god), it would be a sacrilege to associate Allah with any pagan deity names for a Muslims and this is proven by most Muslim translations of the Qur’an which always write the name of their deity as Allah in every language of the world never the local common words associated with God.

 

Muslims learnt form the Jews that they must revere the name of Allah while the Jewish people protected the name of God YHWH by obscuring it by vowel points by the 6th century CE, scribes known as the Masorets so no heathen could pronounce the name of Yahuweh.

 

Problem 2 – Kurios or YHWH

 

Next, it would be blasphemy to call YHWH as Kurios a false pagan deity's name, the term that is translated throughout the New Testament by the Greek translations.  This was passed on to most people as they were not knowledgeable to know this.

 

Problem three – Law of first occurrence

 

You would have to prove that this word “Christian” occurred in the Tanach.  We find no law of first occurrence in the Hebrew Bible whatsoever and it needs to occur at least once to make this a valid choice of word but it isn’t ever termed Christian.

 

Problem four – What did Yahushua/Jesus call us?

 

You would have to show where did the Messiah ever say that we are called “Christians?”  He frankly didn’t.  The text breaks from every angle, which says they are Christians or ever called themselves Christians.  Sadly most of our Bible translations are riddled with pagan titles because of bias and personal agendas of various people but most of these can be cleared up very quickly by going back to the original culture and the language which we know was Hebrew.

 

How about if I tell you that the term has been deliberately inserted to confuse the masses and inject a brand new religion in the scriptures when one didn’t exist.

 

The Messiah refers to us as “His sheep”.  This term was mentioned in the Tenach.

 

Joh 10:14 (NKJV) "I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

 

The reference in the Torah

 

Numbers 27:17 (NKJV) "who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of YHWH may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.''

 

The reference in the prophets

 

Ezekile 34:6 (NKJV) "My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.''

 

The reference in the Psalms

 

Psa 74:1 (NKJV) O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

 

Now we piece together the evidence before we arrive at our conclusion.

 

Act 24:5 (NKJV) For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

 

Here we can see that Paul is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of Nazarenes so how can it be that two chapters later someone inserts the term “Christian” which is a word foreign to the disciples of Yahushua.

 

What many do not know is that there was a pagan deity known as Serapis whose followers were called Kristianos.  The Greek term Chrestoi means “good men” which was applied to the followers of Sarapis the false god three centuries before Yahushua of Nazareth arrived.

The Term Chrestos

From teosofia.com/Mumbai/7502christmas.html we read further:   

     "Krishna or Chris-na and Christos come from the same root.  Kris in Sanskrit means the pure or the sacred,  'the first emanation of the invisible G-dhead, manifesting itself tangibly in spirit' (Isis Unveiled, II, 158), it is the Spiritual Ego (Buddhi-Manas).  ....   'The Spiritual, Immortal, Higher Ego in every man is an emanation, like a ray, from the Central Spiritual Sun (Paramatman), of which the visible Sun is the direct manifestation on our physical plane and its visible symbol.'"

[1]A letter ascribed in the Augustan History to the Emperor Hadrian refers to the worship of Serapis by residents of Egypt who described themselves as Christians, and Christian worship by those claiming to worship Serapis, suggesting a great confusion of the cults and practices:

 

This is how the term is confused while the believers were called either one of two terms followers of THE WAY or Nazarenes.

 

The Term Notsarim, which exists in the Hebrew Renewed Covenant was the term that had it occurrence in the Hebrew Bible the book of Jeremiah as a future prophecy.

 

Jeremiah 31:6 (AFNHSS) For there shall be a day, that the watchmen[1] upon the Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Tsiyon to hwhy our Elohim.


[1] The word for ‘watchmen’ is notzarim, which means branches, or followers of the Messiah Yahushua (Christians) will go up to Jerusalem and begin to realize who they really serve and who or what they are such as not a church but grafted into Israel, the ten tribes.

 

The word there for watchmen in the Hebrew is Notzarim the same word which would have occurred in the Renewed Covenant (NT).  This is an End Times prophecy for believers crying on the walls of Jerusalem.

 

The word also means to “guard”, to “keep” and for  “concealed ones” so who are these concealed ones?  These are the people who call themselves Christians but here the prophecy is that the ones who call themselves believers would actually have an awakening and return unto Tsiyon both in spiritual sense and physical.  This shows us there will be a real wake up call for all Christians to drop paganism and return to our true Hebrew roots of the faith which compels us to keep Torah and be faithful to Yahuweh who was revealed as Yahushua our Master.

 

This is proof that Rabbi Paulos commonly known as Paul was not called the ringleader of the Christians but the ringleader of the Notsarim.

 

Acts 24:5 (AFNHSS) For we have found this man a troublemaker, and a stirrer of trouble among all the Yahudim (Jewish people) throughout the Roman provinces, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.[1]

 


[1] First century believers were called Notzarim (Branches or watchmen) fulfilling the prophecy given in Isa 11:1, and such as Jer 31:6 and John 15:1-2. The term Nazarenes of late to some may have come to mean Christians but since many in the church system do not obey the Torah the rule of law of YHWH’s people, most of the Nazarenes brothers and sisters today are thought to be a cult by many in churches so what has changed? Nothing as even today most churches in the world still mix paganism into their religious practices adopted from the Roman Catholic Church. YHWH has kept the Nazarenes as a separate remnant as He prophesied to grant them a greater reward in the world to come. He said He would raise us up and many are or will turn back to the true faith of the disciples of Yahushua leaving apostate Christianity behind.

 

So in conclusion, you will not find the word “Christian” even once anywhere in Scripture thus Jeremiah rightly stated the following verse so beware.

 

Yermiyahu (Jeremiah) 16:19 (AFNHSS) O hwhy, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come[1] to you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our ahvot (fathers) have inherited lies,[2] vanity, and things wherein there is no value.

 

Now do you want to continue with the lies or correct the lies and live as God wanted us to live?  Choice is in our hands Truth or Tradition?

 

 


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis

 

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[1] At the return of Messiah these will have to walk back as there will be no rapture for these Christians because they believed in lies all along and refuse to believe in Torah as their church leaders taught them falsehoods and did not teach full truth.

[2] It is not one man’s job to change the behavior and the lies that Christendom has adopted and they will in majority continue in them until right at the end while some will find complete truth and leave the lies and come into the full light.