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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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December 10, 1990
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What If?
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by Vendyl Jones
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Have you ever thought of what Christianity would be today if we had
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no New Testament? Perhaps, one might question if there would be
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such a faith as the Christian faith without the New Testament.
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What do you suppose might happen if all the New Testaments were to
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vanish? Could we go on? Could we survive?
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Yet, the early church, from the days of the apostles till the fourth
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century had no New Testament as a collection of 27 books. There are
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two things the so called "New Testament Church" did not have.
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The first thing is the New Testament and the second is "a church."
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Primal Christians had only the Torah. The five books of Moses.
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They had the twenty-two books of the Prophets and Holy Writings that
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included Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations,
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Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah and the two books of
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Chronicles.
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Then, of course, they had and used the fourteen books of the
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Apocrypha. They met and worshipped with the Jews in the Synagogues.
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Many times we read in the New Testament statements such as:
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" . . . the scripture saith . . . .." Or
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" . . . it is written . . . .." Or
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" . . . what saith the law . . . .." Or
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" . . . thus saith the L-rd . . . .." Or
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" . . . as the prophet said . . . .."
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When many read these statements, they think it is referring to
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John or one of the New Testament epistles.
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Not so!
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The New Testament did not exist in those days. The only scripture
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they had was the Tanach and Apocrypha.
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The New Testament church only had the Hebrew Scripture.
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If there was a church in your community by any name, who had a sign
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in front that read:
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"This church only teaches from the Old Testament"
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what would be the response of the community? What would be your
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response? Would you dare to visit that church? Would you consider
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becoming a member?
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Do you think that church's pastor would be invited to join the local
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ministerial association? Probably not!
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Yet, can we not put that sign on every church mentioned in Acts and
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the Pauline epistles?
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Any church today that posted and practiced such a sign "we only
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study the Old Testament" would be considered a cult or an occult.
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Some people would become very angry immediately, not giving it a
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second thought and brand it as heresy.
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While when the more moderate would only feel a little sick at the
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stomach for such a blatant statement.
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They would be turned off by such a thought. That is only natural!
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That is exactly the response the primitive churches got from their
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communities!
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Do you know of any church today dedicated to in-depth constant study
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of the Torah, Prophets and Holy Writings of the Tanach or so called
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Old Testament?
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Do you know any church that would treat the scriptures as the Older
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Testaments and the Newer Testaments as it was so amply state by
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Rabbi Zalman Shechtcher-Shalomi?
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Originally the writers of the Newer Testament, all were Jewish,
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viewed the Older Testament of the Hebrew Scriptures as the supreme
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authority of what they wrote.
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Much later their writings became the Newer Testament. Their
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authority was in Torah primarily, enforced by the Prophets and Holy
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Writings.
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Their Newer Testament writings never showed or claimed supremacy
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over the Older Testament!
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They did all their writing in the Jewish mind-set. This attitude
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always concedes all authority to the Torah!
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It never irritates or challenges the authority of the Hebrew
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Scriptures.
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Unfortunately, when the Byzantines, in the fourth century after
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Jesus, removed the apostolic writings from the Jewish mind-set and
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forced them into a Greco Roman mind-set everything changed.
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First, they collected 27 of many writings and called the collection,
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for the first time the "New Testament."
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The monks inverted the authority and made the "New Testament"
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superior to the Hebrew's sacred scripture that they titled the "Old
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Testament" for the first time.
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This implied that the "new" had now replaced the "old." The Jewish
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Holy Scripture was now obsolete and abrogated by the New Testament.
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Hereafter, the monks only used the Jewish Bible to try to prove the
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validity of their New Testament. They used the text they had
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abrogated and nullified.
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The purpose of the B'nai No'ach Study Program is to help the non-Jew
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understand what the Word of G-d means to him. It is an attempt to
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get Christians to return to the scriptures and learn "the first
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principles of the oracle of G-d."
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B'nai No'ach is not church. It is an attempt to fill the void the
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church has not filled in people's lives. B'nai No'ach is not a
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prayer meeting nor a praise and worship event. It is not and does
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not take the place of church.
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At all cost we must avoid making B'nai No'ach another sect or
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denomination. B'nai No'ach is our effort to help you to know G-d and
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know his living Word.
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Vendyl Jones is the original inspiration for the Indiana Jones
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character of the movies.
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In real life, Vendyl is director of the Institute for Judeo-
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Christian Research located in Arlington, Texas. John Hill operates
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the I.J.C.R. BBS at 1-817-346-1038.
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We have had the honor of meeting with Vendyl and his beautiful wife
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Zahava as well as John Hill and others of their group. They are
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fine people with a noble purpose in life.
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Other files on KeelyNet relate to ARK or NOAH which give some detail
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at to the scope of their activities.
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We recommend that you contact their BBS or group for a deeper
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understanding of the meaning and practice of Torah.
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