Statement of Faith... NOT!

Here at Chut HaM'shulash, we don't find any evidence in the Tenach that members of the community of faith be required to attach themselves to a "statements of faith," or otherwise be subjected to someone else's theological sobriety test, in order to be accepted or belong to that community. We simply declare solidarity and unity with those who keep the commandments of HaShem, and hold the testimony of Yeshua, as Mashiach, rather than as G-d.

We are opposed to issuing such statements. We do not feel that every one has to agree with the conclusions we have reached from the Tenach or the Brit Ha'Chadashah. We also do not feel that we have to agree with every point of doctrine that someone else has produced, in order to be pleasing to G-d or retain our status as members of a larger faith community. Every Statement of Faith is incomplete and partial since the Word of G-d alone contains the full counsel of G-d. Therefore, any person could find things, which he thinks should be in such a statement but are not, or things which are in the statement but shouldn't be, and use these discrepancies to divide a community, rather than unify it.

Although the church, with its vast and incurable insecurity complex, forces its adherents to stop thinking, in order to seize, imprison and take control of their minds, we do not. Where the church must employ the "thought-police" and issue citations and excommunication orders to all those who refuse to bow the knee to their particular doctrines, we say, "HaShem granted freedom to our minds, to think and to ponder." A true "believer" therefore, in the end of days, according to the texts of Sefer Ha'Hitgalut (Rev) 12:17 and 14:12, are identified only by two things; 1) S/he observes the Commandments of G-d (i.e. the Torah), and 2) S/he holds to a testimony of a Mashiach (which presumably is not altogether foreign to the Mashiach that was articulated by the RamBam in his Thirteen Principles of Faith, which did not host a "trinity" of any sort. This should be enough. Everything beyond these two, are nothing more than devices of men, which are altogether unprofitable in every way.

Today, the so-called "Messianic" movement is a giant mess. They have lost sight of ONE G-d, their Jewish heritage, and Torah-centered values for living. They claim to possess the "Ru'ach Ha'Kodesh," but ignore the very commandments the Ru'ach Ha'Kodesh has given them through our Torah. Their teachers and leaders have become shepherds who feed only themselves. Sadly, they are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted — twice dead. Having obscured G-d's role in the whole affair, we must admit that we have no part with them, to the same extent as they first decided they have no part with us.

Our only identification, therefore, with the Messianic movement in Israel, is limited to serving the financial needs of the poor within that community, who observe the Mitzvot of ONE G-d, and hold to the testimony of Yeshua in obedience to Torah.