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How the Church Fathers Invented Christianity<\/strong>
\nBy<\/strong>
\nJames Scott Trimm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What many Christians do not know, is that the Church Fathers admitted\n that the original followers of Yeshua as Messiah, including Paul, were \nJews of the sect of the Nazarenes, and that Gentile Christianity was \ntheir own invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course the New Testament tells us Paul was a \u201cringleader of the \nsect of the Nazarenes\u201d (Acts 24:5).  The so-called church fathers tell \nus quite a bit about these \u201cNazarenes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth century \u201cchurch father\u201d Epiphanius gives a detailed description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these sectarians\u2026 did not call themselves Christians\u2013but \n\u201cNazarenes,\u201d \u2026 However they are simply complete Jews. They use not only \nthe New Testament but the Old Testament as well, as the Jews do\u2026 They \nhave no different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law \nproclaims it and in the Jewish fashion\u2013 except for their belief in \nMessiah, if you please! For they acknowledge both the resurrection of \nthe dead and the divine creation of all things, and declare that God is \none, and that his son is Yeshua the Messiah. They are trained to a \nnicety in Hebrew. For among them the entire Law, the Prophets, and the\u2026 \nWritings\u2026 are read in Hebrew, as they surely are by the Jews. They are \ndifferent from the Jews, and different from Christians, only in the \nfollowing. They disagree with Jews because they have come to faith in \nMessiah; but since they are still fettered by the Law\u2013circumcision, the \nSabbath, and the rest\u2013 they are not in accord with Christians\u2026. they are\n nothing but Jews\u2026. They have the Goodnews according to Matthew in its \nentirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this, in \nthe Hebrew alphabet, as it was originally written. (Epiphanius; Panarion 29<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cchurch father\u201d Jerome (4th Cent.) described these Nazarenes as \nthose \u201c\u2026who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to \nobserve the old Law.\u201d (Jerome; On. Is. 8:14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a letter to Augustine, Jerome makes an amazing admission concerning the Nazarenes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe matter in debate, therefore, or I should rather say your \nopinion regarding it, is summed up in this: that since the preaching of \nthe gospel of Christ, the believing Jews do well in observing the \nprecepts of the law, i.e. in offering sacrifices as Paul did, in \ncircumcising their children, as Paul did in the case of Timothy, and \nkeeping the Jewish Sabbath, as all the Jews have been accustomed to do. \nIf this be true, we fall into the heresy\u2026 [of those who] though \nbelieving in Christ, were anathematized by the fathers for this one \nerror, that they mixed up the ceremonies of the law with the gospel of \nChrist, and professed their faith in that which was new, without letting\n go what was old. \u2026In our own day there exists a sect among the Jews \nthroughout all the synagogues of the East, which is called the sect of \nthe Min\u00e6ans, and is even now condemned by the Pharisees. The adherents \nto this sect are known commonly as Nazarenes; they believe in Christ the\n Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary; and they say that He who suffered \nunder Pontius Pilate and rose again, is the same as the one in whom we \nbelieve. But while they desire to be both Jews and Christians, they are \nneither the one nor the other. I therefore beseech you, who think that \nyou are called upon to heal my slight wound, which is no more, so to \nspeak, than a prick or scratch from a needle, to devote your skill in \nthe healing art to this grievous wound, which has been opened by a spear\n driven home with the impetus of a javelin. For there is surely no \nproportion between the culpability of him who exhibits the various \nopinions held by the fathers in a commentary on Scripture, and the guilt\n of him who reintroduces within the Church a most pestilential heresy. \nIf, however, there is for us no alternative but to receive the Jews into\n the Church, along with the usages prescribed by their law; if, in \nshort, it shall be declared lawful for them to continue in the Churches \nof Christ what they have been accustomed to practice in the synagogues \nof Satan, I will tell you my opinion of the matter: they will not become\n Christians, but they will make us Jews.<\/em>
\n(Jerome; Letter 75<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) \u201cMin\u00e6ans\u201d apparently Latinized from Hebrew MINIM (singular is\n MIN) a word which in modern Hebrew means \u201capostates\u201d but was originally\n an acronym for a Hebrew phrase meaning \u201cBelievers in Yeshua the \nNazarene\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerome repeats Augustine, saying of the Nazarenes: \u201csince the \npreaching of the gospel of Christ, the believing Jews do well in \nobserving the precepts of the law, i.e. in offering sacrifices as Paul \ndid, in circumcising their children, as Paul did in the case of Timothy,\n and keeping the Jewish Sabbath, as all the Jews have been accustomed to\n do.\u201d (Jerome; Letter 75 Jerome to Augustine<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerome responds saying of the Nazarenes \u201cthough believing in Christ, they were anathematized by the [church] fathers for this one error, that they mixed up the ceremonies of the law with the gospel of Christ, and professed their faith in that which was new, without letting go what was old.\u201d  (ibid) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words Augustine and Jerome tell us that the Nazarene doctrine that the Torah should still be observed began with \u201cthe preaching of Christ\u201d and was the doctrine kept by Paul, but that the church \u201cfathers\u201d of Christianity declared this to be an error and a heresy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ignatius Invents Anti-Nomian Christianity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until the time of Ignatius (in the late first century), matters of\n dispute that arose at Antioch were ultimately referred to the Jerusalem\n Council (as in Acts 14:26-15:2). Ignatius usurped the authority of the \nJerusalem council, declaring himself as the local bishop as the ultimate\n authority over the assembly of which he was bishop, and likewise \ndeclaring the same as true of all other bishops and their local \nassemblies. Ignatius writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026being subject to your bishop\u2026<\/em>
\n\u2026run together according to the will of God.<\/em>
\nJesus\u2026 is sent by the will of the Father;<\/em>
\nAs the bishops\u2026 are by the will of Jesus Christ.<\/em>
\n(Eph. 1:9, 11)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026your bishop\u2026I think you happy who are so joined to him,<\/em>
\nas the church is to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is to the Father\u2026<\/em>
\nLet us take heed therefore, that we not set ourselves<\/em>
\nagainst the bishop, that we may be subject to God\u2026.<\/em>
\nWe ought to look upon the bishop, even as we would<\/em>
\nupon the Lord himself.<\/em>
\n(Eph. 2:1-4)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026obey your bishop\u2026<\/em>
\n(Mag. 1:7)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your bishop presiding in the place of God\u2026<\/em>
\n\u2026be you united to your bishop\u2026<\/em>
\n(Mag. 2:5, 7)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026he\u2026 that does anything without the bishop\u2026<\/em>
\nis not pure in his conscience\u2026<\/em>
\n(Tral. 2:5)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Do nothing without the bishop.<\/em>
\n(Phil. 2:14)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See that you all follow your bishop,<\/em>
\nAs Jesus Christ, the Father\u2026<\/em>
\n(Smy. 3:1)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By exalting the power of the office of bishop (overseer) and \ndemanding the absolute authority of the bishop over the assembly, \nIgnatius was actually making a power grab by thus taking absolute \nauthority over the assembly at Antioch and encouraging other Gentile \noverseers to follow suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover Ignatius drew men away from Torah and declared the Torah to \nhave been abolished, not only at Antioch but at other Gentile assemblies\n to which he wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be not deceived with strange doctrines;<\/em>
\nnor with old fables which are unprofitable.<\/em>
\nFor if we still continue to live according to the Jewish Law,<\/em>
\nwe do confess ourselves not to have received grace\u2026<\/em>
\n(Mag. 3:1)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if any one shall preach the Jewish law unto you,<\/em>
\nhearken not unto him\u2026<\/em>
\n(Phil. 2:6)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also Ignatius who first replaces the Seventh Day Sabbath with Sunday worship, writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026no longer observing sabbaths, but keeping the Lord\u2019s day<\/em>
\nin which also our life is sprung up by him, and through<\/em>
\nhis death\u2026\u201d<\/em>
\n(Magnesians 3:3)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having seceded from the authority of Jerusalem, declared the Torah \nabolished and replacing the Sabbath with Sunday, Ignatius had created a \nnew religion. Ignatius coins a new term, never before used, for this new\n religion which he calls \u201cChristianity\u201d and which he makes clear is new \nand district religion from Judaism. He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026let us learn to live according to the rules of Christianity,<\/em>
\nfor whosoever is called by any other name<\/em>
\nbesides this, he is not of God\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is absurd to name Jesus Christ, and to Judaize.<\/em>
\nFor the Christian religion did not embrace the Jewish.<\/em>
\nBut the Jewish the Christian\u2026<\/em>
\n(Mag. 3:8, 11)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the end of the first century Ignatius of Antioch had declared  \nthat the Nazarene doctrine that the Torah should still be observed which\n Augustine admitted began with \u201cthe preaching of Christ\u201d and was the \ndoctrine kept by Paul to be an error and a heresy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He seceded from Judaism and founded a new religion which he called \n\u201cChristianity\u201d. A religion which rejected the Torah, and replaced the \nSeventh Day Sabbath with Sunday Worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshua did not come to create a new religion, he came to be the Messiah of Judaism.  The original followers of Yeshua as the Messiah were a sect of Judaism called the sect of the Nazarenes (Acts 24:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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