July.13, 2006

OPEN  LETTER  FROM  A  GENTILE  CHRISTIAN  TO  THE JEW-CHRISTIAN  SCATTERED…

Dear Friends,

Greetings to all of you out there… in the lovely name of the Holy One of God, even Jesus the Lord. :Few years ago, one of yours  was interviewed in T.B.N. Before his departure  to Jerusalem to preach the message of grace. He said it! And also he said that there was not such a thing as “Christian Synagogue and a Jew-Christian;” this is the reason for this “Open Letter”; I kind of agree with what he said.

Did the Apostles called the “places for their gatherings “Jew-Christian place of worship”?

Did they call themselves “Jewish-Christians”? Those enquiries are from my own Gentile perspective and please bare with me I happen to have a couple more enquiries; Theologians tell us that Israel was a Monotheist Nation, but now days some of you say “…God always existed as Three Eternal Persons…“ since when you are borrowing sayings from pagan philosophy? Even trying to prove the three-person doctrine by mentioning ELOHIM’S plurality of powers. Did Moses do wrong at the time he presented  The ARTICLES OF FAITH Deut. 6:4 for the Congregation of  The Church in The Wilderness? Acts 7:38

If Moses did wrong there, then all the Monotheistic  prophets are wrong, and ONLY  Isaiah is right  because he is the only prophet that mentioned the three persons in 48 :16 according to some  writings  of  yours; in the other hand; if  Moses did say  the proper words, then also all of God’s prophets prophesied accordingly; and people called Christians are told “(we) are built upon the foundation of the APOSTLES AND PROPHETS…” Eph. 2: 20 That alone show us that the Apostles every one of them, INCLUDING MATTHEW were of monotheistic  faith, and in such grounds they  wrote to the converted people “… called Christians…” the real “…born again…” whether Jew or Gentile, we both have ONE HEAVENLY CITENSHIP.

I  was born in Mexico City, at a proper age I emigrate to U.S.A. and latter I became  American Citizen, at that day, the American Consul told me.” … My fellow citizen, this is now you new country, you do not have now two countries, and you have only one citizenship.” ( I hope I am sending my message across.)

I know it is a very “touchy subject” but one converted person must not be “…lukewarm…” Rev 3:15,16 in his NEW FAITH, of which Apostle Paul wrote “…there is one faith, one Lord, one baptism…” Eph. 4:5; and again the question of “wrong doing”; did Apostle Paul did wrong by saying that there is one baptism? You should know that Gentiles say Acts 2:38 is for the Jews and Matthew 28:19 is for the Gentiles, which of the two you folks  obey? How do you folks explain, “…there is one baptism…”

It does not matter you say? Well, some also teach …it does no matter what clothes one wears (decent or otherwise) and some of you also teach that does not matter what day a believer honors as day of rest to worship Him, but One can find out in context to see if this things matter to God o not, in all matters He has the last word; His word is final and it pays off to do things according to His will; you folks as  Jewish people know the price Israel paid for deviating of God’s will; but in His lovingkidness now His WILL for both Jew and Gentile IS TO OBEY HIM, BY THE WORDS OF HIS APOSTLES  AS  ISRAEL WAS TOLD TO OBEY THE WORD OF GOD BY the words of MOSES. (Am I wrong?)

This you Jewish folks must know, orthodox Gentile Christendom did missed the way since 325 A.D. for the love of God I beg you go to Church History (100-400 A.D.)“…to the Law and the testimony…” said one of your prophets, you already been in the Law, NOW GO TO THE TESTIMONY OF ADONAI’S CHURCH Where “…there are three that bear record in heaven, The Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.” 1^st. John 5:7 One WHAT? One entity of course!

There Apostle John is saying that there is only one Godhead and of what consists this one Godhead; in old times (Israel‘s History) Godhead was know as SHEKINAH! Of which Gentiles at that time knew nothing at all and most religions today are at same level. SELAH…

How many Divinities appeared in Mount Sinai at the time Moses and the Elders of Israel saw SHEKINAH?

How many Divinities Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, Paul, Stephen etc. saw at the appearance of this God‘s Glory?

Was not then SHEKINAH the most sublime appearance on one place of the completeness of God’s substance? Was not then A SINGLE DEITY? And it is still one Deity in matter and in Spirit; Messiah said “…I came forth and proceeded out from the Father…” John 16:27,28 (THE FATHER IS A SPIRIT);John 4:24 but Theologically speaking in Gentile minds it all became different, when the pagan philosophy of plurality of deities crept in when the darkness of the four hundred years without a prophet was over and the paganism of Rome was in power.

Because of that, with so much power, they even were able to “diverge” the Godhead-Shekinah of ADONAI “The Word that was With God and was God” John 1:1 (God’s voice) they made of “It“, a personified, LOGOS a minor secundie Deus. The SPOKEN WORD that brought existence into existing, being immaterial and unembodied never been a metaphysical being; was made in the minds of believers exactly that: A METAPHYSICAL DIVINE BEING with the definition of WORD LOGOS (Greek) which means we are told “expression of Himself” but ignoring the meaning of it, they went ahead with their invention of “a second god” for denominational convenience; the Roman Universal Church born in 325 A.D. is a SECT as any other denominations are, and The danger for Jewish converted to Christianity is the same as for the Gentile world is: giving a pagan Greek-philosophical definition to Adonai El Shaddai. Also we are told the Greek word LOGOS, (expression of Himself) in Hebrew text is DEVAR and it means PURPOSE. (If I am wrong there, please any body let me know).

How can the so called Hebrew-Evangelical Congregations, made an eternal -person defined “eternal Son of God-God the Son” out of  DEVAR-PURPOSE? At any rate, whether LOGOS-WORD or DEVAR-PURPOSE the real meaning from the moment these words were penned by Apostle John by inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit it indicates the attitude of a single Almighty Deity, THE CREATOR!. In the words of Apostle Paul, “Having made known unto us (the Apostles, that is) the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, WHICH HE HATH PURPOSED IN HIMSELF.” Ephesians 1:9. That is speaking of ELOHIM at Creation, and also “For by HIM were all things created, that are in heaven and in earth, visible and invisible. Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM. AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST… . Col. 1:16,17..

In closing: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are IN CHRIST JESUS… Rom. 8:1; to be in Christ Jesus, since… God was in Christ… 2^nd. Cor.5:19 that still is …to be in Him…, ONE DEITY!! Therefore, get this:

THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM. Ephe. 1:17. (God in Christ, that is.ONE ENTITY).

“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father (God in Christ) , and ye in Me,( to be in Christ

And I in you.” John 14:20 (Christ in you the hope of glory).Col. 1:27. TO WHOM GOD WOULD MAKE KNOWN WHAT IS THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY AMONG THE Gentiles (and Jews) which is CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY. ( all this is Apostles’ Doctrine, no pagan philosophy! Gabriel Mendez.