The Branch...The Branch...THE BIBLE is the best selling book of all times. At the same time, it is also one of the least read and understood of all books of all times. For almost 2000 years the roman Catholic Church forbade its adherents to read the Old Testament under pain of a threatened excommunication. Even when the Bible was permitted again after the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, Catholics were still encouraged to read the book under the guidance of a priest.Although it is most unlikely that many people, especially in the Western World, would pay much heed to such prohibitions, comprehension of the Scriptures is not very high among Christians, let alone non-Christians.A major point we are making here is that the Bible has been regarded by Christians - and others for that matter - as a book of DOs and DON’Ts, which is most likely the biggest failure of Christendom. And the key to this was the mistake by earliest interpreters of the Hebrew text already several centuries before the Christian Era to understand the Hebrew word Torah as a form of judicial LAW (see ‘Torah: Mosaic Law or Divine Instruction?’)Email Us!The question, as to who Jesus is, is as old as Christianity itself. A disturbing trend has been developing over the last few decades, which seems to grow stronger as time goes on. This trend, which is clearly noticable in countless Christian songs and prayers, replaces God with Jesus, with him taking over the historic functions of his Father, as Creator and sustainer of all.Surely this is NOT Biblical? For most Christians it is a given that Jesus Christ is the name of the son of God. How many have an understanding that Christ is not a surname, but describes a function? If one looks into the Bible for an answer, the word ‘Christ’ seems to appear for the first time in the first verse of the Gospel of Matthew. Are you aware that the term appears at least 42 times in the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament? The Sunday is considered by most people to be the Christian Sabbath and celebrated as a memorial of the Resurrection of Jesus. Most Christians are convinced that Jesus, and later supported by Paul, did away with the Biblical (or Jewish) Seventh Day Sabbath mentioned in the book of Genesis and in the Ten Commandments. Is Christianity right in legislating the Sunday, which is a pagan day of worship to the sungod, as the day that God should be worshipped? What if Christians invented the Sunday merely to separate themselves from the Jewish people...? When the humanrace lost contact with its maker, they began to make objects of worship for themselves which they believed could help them in specific predicaments. In mercy, the Creator reached down to us and provided a path for restoring the relationship, which existed with the first human beings, but was broken through their rebellion. Coming soon....!One of the most devastating mistakes the early Christian church made was to misinterpret the meaning of the Hebrew word Torah. Ignorantly they put their trust in the Greek translation of the Old Testament and exported that understanding onto the New Testament. By trying to circumvent so-called Jewish Law they developed Christian laws that became far more restrictive than those of the Bible. By rejecting the Jewish people as Christ Rejecters, they in fact became blind to the wisdom of the Hebrew Tenakh and lost the connection to the root of the Olive Tree. As Pal says, ‘by claiming to be wise, they became foolish and their hearts were darkened by their hatred of/for the Jewish people. Read more...The early part of the 4th Century of the Common— or Christian era, is a watershed for the Christian church. Beginning with Origen in the late 2nd century, Greek Philosophy had gradually become the basis for the theology of the Church fathers, albeit with its roots in the neo-platonic teachings of Alexandria. Read more...Contrary to common belief, the New Covenant has nothing to do with Christianity. The term was first used by Jeremiah in the 7th century Before the Common or Christian Era and refers exclusively to the houses of Judah and Israel. It is worth noting that Jeremiah mentions Israel (the northern kingdom) alongside Judah, when the former had ceased to exist some hundred years earlier and most of the people dispersed among the kingdoms of the then known world. Coming soon!The prevailing view stands that salvation is the result of ‘having faith IN Jesus’ yet the Greek text in the following passages clearly teaches that is the ‘faith OF Jesus’, which produces salvation; (Rom.3:22, 26; Gal 2:16 & Phil.2:9). These verses have been deliberately mistranslated in virtually all versions of the Bible and continue to be taught, to support the mistaken, non-biblical view, that ‘Jesus has done it all’.Read on... Read on...Read on... P.O.Box 2004Kelvin Grove QLD 4059AUSTRALIAinfo@theolivetreeconnection.comhttp://theolivetreeconnection.comTel.: +61 0437 441 720Reconnecting with the tree!
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THE BIBLE is the best selling book of all times. At the same time, it is also one of the
least read and understood of all books of all times. For almost 2000 years the roman
Catholic Church forbade its adherents to read the Old Testament under pain of a
threatened excommunication. Even when the Bible was permitted again after the
Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, Catholics were still encouraged to read the
book under the guidance of a priest.
Although it is most unlikely that many people, especially in the Western World, would
pay much heed to such prohibitions, comprehension of the Scriptures is not very high
among Christians, let alone non-Christians.
A major point we are making here is that the
Bible has been regarded by Christians - and
others for that matter - as a book of DOs and DON’Ts, which is most
likely the biggest failure of Christendom. And the key to this was the
mistake by earliest interpreters of the Hebrew text already several
centuries before the Christian Era to understand the Hebrew word
Torah as a form of judicial LAW (see ‘Torah: Mosaic Law or Divine Instruction?’)
Email Us!
The question, as to who Jesus is, is as old as Christianity itself. A disturbing trend
has been developing over the last few decades, which seems to grow stronger as
time goes on. This trend, which is clearly noticable in countless Christian songs and prayers, replaces God with
Jesus, with him taking over the historic functions of his Father, as Creator and sustainer of all.
Surely this is NOT Biblical?
For most Christians it is a given that Jesus Christ is the name of the son of God.
How many have an understanding that Christ is not a surname, but describes a
function? If one looks into the Bible for an answer, the word ‘Christ’ seems to appear for the first time in the first
verse of the Gospel of Matthew. Are you aware that the term appears at least 42 times in the Greek version of the
Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament?
The Sunday is considered by most people to be the
Christian Sabbath and celebrated as a memorial of the
Resurrection of Jesus. Most Christians are convinced that Jesus, and later supported by Paul,
did away with the Biblical (or Jewish) Seventh Day Sabbath mentioned in the book of Genesis
and in the Ten Commandments. Is Christianity right in legislating the Sunday, which is a
pagan day of worship to the sungod, as the day that God should be worshipped? What if
Christians invented the Sunday merely to separate themselves from the Jewish people...?
When the
humanrace lost contact with its
maker, they began to make objects of worship for themselves which they believed could help them in specific
predicaments. In mercy, the Creator reached down to us and provided a path for restoring the relationship, which
existed with the first human beings, but was broken through their rebellion. Coming soon....!
One of the most devastating mistakes the early Christian church made was to
misinterpret the meaning of the Hebrew word Torah. Ignorantly they put their
trust in the Greek translation of the Old Testament and exported that understanding onto the New Testament. By
trying to circumvent so-called Jewish Law they developed Christian laws that became far more restrictive than those
of the Bible. By rejecting the Jewish people as Christ Rejecters, they in fact became blind to the wisdom of the
Hebrew Tenakh and lost the connection to the root of the Olive Tree. As Pal says, ‘by claiming to be wise, they
became foolish and their hearts were darkened by their hatred of/for the Jewish people. Read more...
The early part of the 4th Century of the Common— or Christian era, is
a watershed for the Christian church. Beginning with Origen in the
late 2nd century, Greek Philosophy had gradually become the basis for the theology of the Church fathers, albeit with
its roots in the neo-platonic teachings of Alexandria. Read more...
Contrary to common belief, the New Covenant has nothing to do with
Christianity. The term was first used by Jeremiah in the 7th century Before
the Common or Christian Era and refers exclusively to the houses of Judah and Israel. It is worth noting that
Jeremiah mentions Israel (the northern kingdom) alongside Judah, when the former had ceased to exist some hundred
years earlier and most of the people dispersed among the kingdoms of the then known world. Coming soon!
The prevailing view stands that salvation is the result
of ‘having faith IN Jesus’ yet
the Greek text in the following passages clearly teaches that is the ‘faith OF Jesus’, which produces salvation;
(Rom.3:22, 26; Gal 2:16 & Phil.2:9).
These verses have been deliberately mistranslated in virtually all versions of the Bible and continue to be taught, to
support the mistaken, non-biblical view, that ‘Jesus has done it all’.
Read on...
Read on...
Read on...
P.O.Box 2004
Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
AUSTRALIA
info@theolivetreeconnection.com
http://theolivetreeconnection.com
Tel.: +61 0437 441 720
Reconnecting with the tree!
