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December 10, 1990

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What If?

by Vendyl Jones

Have you ever thought of what Christianity would be today if we had
no New Testament? Perhaps, one might question if there would be
such a faith as the Christian faith without the New Testament.

What do you suppose might happen if all the New Testaments were to
vanish? Could we go on? Could we survive?

Yet, the early church, from the days of the apostles till the fourth
century had no New Testament as a collection of 27 books. There are
two things the so called "New Testament Church" did not have.

The first thing is the New Testament and the second is "a church."

Primal Christians had only the Torah. The five books of Moses.

They had the twenty-two books of the Prophets and Holy Writings that
included Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations,
Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah and the two books of
Chronicles.

Then, of course, they had and used the fourteen books of the
Apocrypha. They met and worshipped with the Jews in the Synagogues.

Many times we read in the New Testament statements such as:

" . . . the scripture saith . . . .." Or
" . . . it is written . . . .." Or
" . . . what saith the law . . . .." Or
" . . . thus saith the L-rd . . . .." Or
" . . . as the prophet said . . . .."

When many read these statements, they think it is referring to
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John or one of the New Testament epistles.

Not so!

The New Testament did not exist in those days. The only scripture
they had was the Tanach and Apocrypha.


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The New Testament church only had the Hebrew Scripture.

If there was a church in your community by any name, who had a sign
in front that read:

"This church only teaches from the Old Testament"

what would be the response of the community? What would be your
response? Would you dare to visit that church? Would you consider
becoming a member?

Do you think that church's pastor would be invited to join the local
ministerial association? Probably not!

Yet, can we not put that sign on every church mentioned in Acts and
the Pauline epistles?

Any church today that posted and practiced such a sign "we only
study the Old Testament" would be considered a cult or an occult.

Some people would become very angry immediately, not giving it a
second thought and brand it as heresy.

While when the more moderate would only feel a little sick at the
stomach for such a blatant statement.

They would be turned off by such a thought. That is only natural!

That is exactly the response the primitive churches got from their
communities!

Do you know of any church today dedicated to in-depth constant study
of the Torah, Prophets and Holy Writings of the Tanach or so called
Old Testament?

Do you know any church that would treat the scriptures as the Older
Testaments and the Newer Testaments as it was so amply state by
Rabbi Zalman Shechtcher-Shalomi?

Originally the writers of the Newer Testament, all were Jewish,
viewed the Older Testament of the Hebrew Scriptures as the supreme
authority of what they wrote.

Much later their writings became the Newer Testament. Their
authority was in Torah primarily, enforced by the Prophets and Holy
Writings.

Their Newer Testament writings never showed or claimed supremacy
over the Older Testament!

They did all their writing in the Jewish mind-set. This attitude
always concedes all authority to the Torah!

It never irritates or challenges the authority of the Hebrew
Scriptures.

Unfortunately, when the Byzantines, in the fourth century after
Jesus, removed the apostolic writings from the Jewish mind-set and
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,
for the first time the "New Testament."

The monks inverted the authority and made the "New Testament"
superior to the Hebrew's sacred scripture that they titled the "Old
Testament" for the first time.

This implied that the "new" had now replaced the "old." The Jewish
Holy Scripture was now obsolete and abrogated by the New Testament.

Hereafter, the monks only used the Jewish Bible to try to prove the
validity of their New Testament. They used the text they had
abrogated and nullified.

The purpose of the B'nai No'ach Study Program is to help the non-Jew
understand what the Word of G-d means to him. It is an attempt to
get Christians to return to the scriptures and learn "the first
principles of the oracle of G-d."

B'nai No'ach is not church. It is an attempt to fill the void the
church has not filled in people's lives. B'nai No'ach is not a
prayer meeting nor a praise and worship event. It is not and does
not take the place of church.

At all cost we must avoid making B'nai No'ach another sect or
denomination. B'nai No'ach is our effort to help you to know G-d and
know his living Word.

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Vendyl Jones is the original inspiration for the Indiana Jones
character of the movies.

In real life, Vendyl is director of the Institute for Judeo-
Christian Research located in Arlington, Texas. John Hill operates
the I.J.C.R. BBS at 1-817-346-1038.

We have had the honor of meeting with Vendyl and his beautiful wife
Zahava as well as John Hill and others of their group. They are
fine people with a noble purpose in life.

Other files on KeelyNet relate to ARK or NOAH which give some detail
at to the scope of their activities.

We recommend that you contact their BBS or group for a deeper
understanding of the meaning and practice of Torah.

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