No one can follow two polar-opposite masters — the authentic, historical, pro-Torah 1^st-century Ribi from Nazareth and the 4^th-century (post-135 C.E.), arch-antithesis anti-Torah apostasy developed by the Hellenists (namely the Sadducees and Roman pagans who conspired to kill Ribi Y^әhoshua, displaced his original followers and redacted the NT).

• "ארור, is (s)he who shall not uphold this דברי התורה to be doing them; and â·mar′  all of hâ-Âm âmein." (D^әvârim 27.26).
  
  
• "Choose today whom you will serve…" (Y^әhoshua 24.15-16).
  
  

The most effective way that moderate people — moderate Torah Jews and moderate Christians — can exert influence in the world is to join together in the realization that we all strive to serve the same Almighty One and, consequently, stressing tolerance and respect for each other's dignity.

Serving the One Almighty further dictates that, in areas of disagreement, discourse between us should be civil, respectful and tolerant; with no need to compromise on any point of truth. After all, whichever faith is true — i.e. authentic (logical, scientific and historically documented) — will prevail in intelligent discourse. No amount of force or terror inflicted by fallible men can long suppress truth in today's ever-shrinking global information highway, nor long impose a faith that isn't authentic and true. Scientists routinely disagree. So can intelligent and civilized religious people. Disagreement is healthy as long as logic, science, historical documentation, facts and civility rule. Violence and terror as heroic tools to further religious aims must be aggressively excised from the religious realm.

The accelerating rate of the universe's expansion necessarily implies, contrary to those who distort evolutionary theory without understanding what science states about its limitations, that a Creator is as real as the universe He created. Basing faith on the truth of reality creates an unshakable foundation that inevitably leads to convergence in the One Almighty. Putting faith before truth and reality, by contrast, leads, first of all, to untrue and errant religion. Secondly, putting faith before truth and reality creates breeches, greater divergence, radicalism and conflict between the three faiths that claim to derive from Avraham. If you're confident that your religion is true, then ensure that truth and intelligent discourse, not violence nor terror, prevail in your religion. Whether it's a Jewish underground, Christian supremicists or Muslim terrorists, having to resort to violence and terror against non-combatants in the name of a religion is proof that their version of religion cannot withstand intelligent discourse, proof that they cannot defend their religion with truth — proof that it is false.

The only path that leads with certainty to the real Almighty of the real world is the path defined by documented history, fact, logic and science (e.g. physics and cosmology). This remains true regardless whether one is a Jew beginning in Judaism, a Christian beginning in Christianity or a Muslim beginning in Islam. Documented history, fact, logic and science inexorably constrain every intelligent, rational and logical person to the same facts about historically-documentation.

When, soul by soul, the three faiths of Abraham converge toward a logical and scientific understanding of historical documentation, logic and science they will necessarily converge toward each other, healing the schisms in the family of Abraham, soul by soul, and unifying their vision — and the Name — of the Creator.

You're invited to participate—blogback—in our Web Café to ask questions, discuss and support joint cooperation toward shared goals of Biblical interests and values through useful—civil—discourse serving to bring the Abrahamic faiths closer to the One — real and true — Almighty and, therefore, to each other.

Tragically, while many Christians assume the Jews have been blinded and rejected by G-d, I'm a former Baptist preacher who can attest that it is Christians who have been deceived — blinded — by a great apostasy of Satan in 135 C.E. and perpetuated by an astounding willingness to live in ignorance of the historical beginnings of the Christian Church. Any encyclopedia recognized in leading universities (as contrasted with Christian-authored "summaries" that gloss over the apostasy) will provide eye-popping, breath-taking, revelations concerning the birth of Christianity and the Church and how it, and the savior-image it developed, became the arch-opposites of the first century historical Ribi Y^әhoshua of Nazareth and his original N^әtzarim disciples.

Perhaps even more tragically, since the Roman Hellenists usurped the 15^th N^әtzarim Paqid in 135 C.E., non-Jews have had no opportunity to follow the authentic, historical, Ribi Y^әhoshua as Mashiakh. Presented with only the apostate (fourth-century Hellenist-redacted) image — Jesus Christ — Jews have rightly rejected the Christian distortion. For the first time since 135 C.E. (click on the "paqid" link, above), now there is an opportunity for both Jews and non-Jews who wish to follow the authentic, historical, Ribi Y^әhoshua as Mashiakh to do so.

The teachings of the N^әtzâr•im′  are based on historical documentation of "historical Jesus" published by many eminent historians of leading universities. Most Christians know that the historical man was a Jew from Nazareth. However, few Christians are aware of the historical record, documented even by the earliest Church historians like Eusebius, that he was known by the name "Ribi Yehoshua" — unmistakably identifying him as a Pharisee and that, as Dead Sea Scroll 4Q MMT has indisputably proven beyond any doubt whatsoever, all religious Jews in the first century considered Torah, both written and Oral, the core of their religious faith. This shatters many traditional, and strongly held, misconceptions.

Do you find the Hebrew, Torah and Pharisaic (today's Orthodox) Judaism of the N^әtzâr•im′  strange or alien? Consider that, except for the issue of whether Rib′ i Y^әho•shu′ a is the Mâ•shi′ akh as we believe he is, the Hebrew Tor•âh′  of Pharisaic-Orthodox Judaism of the N^әtzâr•im′  is the same Hebrew Torah of Pharisaic-Orthodox Judaism practiced and taught by all religious Jews in the first century, including Ribi Yehoshua and his original Netzarim followers!!! This same Hebrew Torah of Pharisaic-Orthodox Judaism has been practiced and taught by millions of Pharisaic-Orthodox Jews around the world for millennia, and is still the same Hebrew Torah of Pharisaic-Orthodox Judaism practiced by millions of Orthodox Jews around the world today. The Netzarim are only one subset of the millions of Orthodox Jews in the world. Consider when you find these things alien how you became so alien from the authentic and historical Ribi Yehoshua you claim to follow and want to be like… and ask yourself why, and how, and what should you do about it. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

Follow truth — Scripture — not the traditions and sayings of men.

The only Scripture that Ribi Yehoshua and his original Netzarim (corrupted to 'Nazarene') Jews knew and taught was the Tanakh (Jewish Bible), from which the "Old Testament" (begging the question of displacement) — Original Testament (OT) — was Christianized. All of his teachings were based in the Tanakh and he never taught anything contrary to it. Look up the following examples in any world-recognized encyclopedia:

• NT wasn't even written until 4 centuries after the death of Ribi Yehoshua. (The few fragments of Greek papyri from the 3^rd century were likely either Roman Hellenist paraphrases from Hebrew Matityahu or Roman Hellenist syncretisms.) Even then, only the Roman Hellenists, who had separated from the original Jewish followers by 135 C.E., accepted them.
  
  
• There are thousands of redactions in the earliest extant source manuscripts of NT.
  
  
• Christmas wasn't celebrated until 5 centuries after the death of Ribi Yehoshua… and then it was syncretized from the birthday of the Roman sun-god by the Roman Hellenists who had separated from the original Jewish followers by 135 C.E.
  
  
• Easter wasn't celebrated until several centuries after the death of Ribi Yehoshua… and then it was syncretized from the festival for the pagan goddess I*sh*t*a*r / A*sh*t*o*r*e*th by the Roman Hellenists who had separated from the original Jewish followers by 135 C.E.
  
  
• Sunday wasn't celebrated until several centuries after the death of Ribi Yehoshua… and then it was syncretized from the day dedicated to the sun-god by the Roman Hellenists who had separated from the original Jewish followers by 135 C.E.

Historians like James Parkes have shown indisputably that the original Netzarim never acceded to any of these apostasies, continuing the original Torah teachings of Ribi Yehoshua. Unavoidably, the first Christians could only institute these apostasies by first displacing the Netzarim Batei-Din — by definition, Displacement Theology. Examination of the historical record shows that this is exactly what happened.

In 135 C.E., the gentiles (Romans) defeated the Jews and exiled every Jew – including the Netzarim and their 15^th Paqid — from Yerushalayim (corrupted to 'Jerusalem'). The conquering gentiles then filled that vacated leadership with the first gentile 'bishop,' giving birth in 135 C.E. to Christianity and the Church, retroactively inventing a previous "history" — that cannot explain their intractable enmity with the original Netzarim. Careful research shows, for example, that there is no documentation whatsoever of popes before 135 C.E. The Netzarim maintain the same Torah teachings today as they did in 135 C.E., the same as Ribi Yehoshua taught, and the same as Mosheh taught at Har Sinai. By the fourth century C.E., however, Christianity represented a 180-degree denial of everything that had gone before, a U-turn from Torah to follow the apostasy of Greco-Roman Hellenist mythology, sun worship and paganism. Every denomination that has sprung from Christianity, including all Protestants, Mormons and all Christian Jews and Christian pseudo-Judaism, is from this seed of apostasy.

Follow the authentic, historical, 1^st-century Jew from Nazareth, Ribi Y^әhoshua the Mashiakh — not his 4^th-century Roman-redacted antithesis. The earliest extant Church historian, Eusebius, documented how, in 135 CE, Roman Hellenists ousted the Jews from Y^әrushalayim and usurped the 15^th Jewish successor to the 1^st N^әtzarim Paqid, Ya·aqov (brother of Ribi Y^әhoshua), then Hellenized the teachings of the original N^әtzarim Jews into the gentile Christian Church in Rome. The pope is another successor to a long line of usurpers of the N^әtzarim Paqid.

N^әtzarim 'Historical Ribi Y^әhoshua' rallies and seminar-series for Christian groups are coming exclusively to Israel (English only — Y^әshayahu 28.10-11). Arrangements for seminar-series, facilities and materials must often be made several months in advance. Since we deal with people coming from many very different religious backgrounds, we need to know a bit about where you're coming from in order to relate to you and your group. Accordingly, arrangements may be facilitated through the 'General Comments' blank in our survey (click on 'Surveys & Visas' office).

Learn how to be like Ribi Y^әhoshua and his original — Israeli Jewish — followers: the N^әtzarim only through our Khavruta (Syllabus). Begin by completing our Survey (click "Surveys & Visas" in panel at left). Then scroll to the bottom of our Survey page and follow our tour of the website. You will learn a significant amount of knowledge along the way and the tour will take you to our Khavrutâ to continue beyond the rudiments.

Give all the friends you've ever known the chance to know about this exciting site; send them our web site address (www.netzarim.co.il) that opens modern eyes for the first time to the Judaic world that Ribi Y^әhoshua and his original N^әtzârim knew, practiced and taught.

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