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Vilnius Messianic Community. The word Messianic comes from the word Messias The Greek translation of this Hebrew word Māšīah „The anointed (King)" is Christós > Christ. Thus Hebr. məšīhī – Messianic is the same as Greek christianos – Christian. Messianic Judaism means Christian Judaism. There are historic grounds however, why modern Messianic Judaism is not the same as traditional Christianity of the Gentiles. It even pretends to be a revival of the primeval Jewish apostolic faith that namely Y-shua (J-sus) is the Jewish Messiah promised by G-d through His prophets [most sacred names are written in an abbreviated form according to the Jewish and early Christian tradition to prevent profanation the written text through evil tendences; as for the sacredness of the name Y-shua see Acts 4:12)]. It is a matter of explanation why the Messianic Jews avoid to be named Christians in a Greek manner (christianoi). This is a result of historic Anti-Semtism of Christian Gentiles. Initial Jewish Christianity, as well as the secondary Gentile one, belong to the sphere of religion in which the people search for an answer to the problems of mortality, sufferings, sense and reason which are above possibilities of human knowledge. For many people religions are either monotheistic, or polytheistic. However a deeper insight differentiates between Creationism and Pantheism. Creationism means that All is created by One G-d Who is beyond time and space. This means G-d as a Person. Pantheism comprehends G-d as Universe itself, as a creative Self-Existence of the Universe. This means G-d as an Impersonal Sum of universal laws. All Pagan religions are based on Pantheism. However the Creationism as a faith in the Person of G-d Creator is a unique one and is of the Semitic origin. It is named Abrahamic according to the name of the Bible prophet Abraham. One knows from the Book of Genesis that G-d revealed Himself to Abraham and concluded a treaty (Covenant) with him that the whole land between Nile and Euphrates would belong to Abraham's descendants from one of his two sons (Yitshak and Yishma’el), Genesis 17:2. Direct descendants of Yitshak are the Jews, from whom Judaism has originated, but the direct desvendants of Yishma’el are the Arabs, from whom Islam has originated (this is the germ of the Jewish–Moslem confrontation). Abrahamic faith spread in the world at the expense of Pagan religions. This uniqueness is unsearchably mystical and self-supporting. Had the Creationism emerged as a result of a natural development, there should have been at least several creationistic monotheisms of different origin in the world. Sometimes Zoroastrism is named as ostensibly monotheistic Creationism. However its monotheistic features are result of later Abrahamic influence. The earliest Zoroastrism was dualistic (light – darkness, good – evil) originating from Pagan Pantheism. In fact, all three Abrahamic religions are varieties of the same primeaval Semitic faith. The Jewish apostolic Christianity spread Creationism in the world with the help of the Roman Empire and its successors, however at the expense of its Jewish authenticity. During the Roman-Jewish wars the first spreaders Greeks became Anti-Semites preaching supersessionism, that G-d's promises were taken from the Jews and given to Gentiles (this "Theory of replacement" penetrated into the Gospel of John during later spontaneous recomposition of possibly Sayings of Y-shua, possibly collected by the apostle himself – cf. John 8:44 you are of your father devil, as ostensibly addressed not to religious leaders, but to the whole because of the correspondence to a similar doubtfully authentic phrase sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnasting of teeth, Matthew 8:12, Luke 13:28). Such attitude towards the Jews as transgressors was oficially proclaimed by Emperor Constantin the Great. In his letter of 235 to the First Council of Nicea he named of Jewish nation Deiciders (Patriciders). In other words, Constantin as head of a global Empire cursed all the Jews declaring a global war upon the Jewish nation. Thus a concept of a baptized Jew being no more Jew came into being, while those who wanted to belong to the Jewish nation appeared to be Deiciders. This damnation by Constantin turned back upon his established Gentile Christianity in turn according to Genesis 12:3 I will curse him who curses you: from this ecumenical council and further on, the Gentile Christianity started to split through foolish blasphemous theosophic controversies about "the composition of G-d". Today this has produced a result of a multitude of hundreds confessions confronted among themselves up to mutual hatred, and disappearing in atheism and world-wide revived satanic heathendom. Most of these confessions are Anti-Semitic, and this is the reason why Messianic Jews avoid naming themselves with the Greek-translated name ‘Christians’ (christianos, Acts 11:26) preferring original Hebew ‘Messianic’ (mešīhī ). Messianic movement is a spiritual Jewish rebirth, prophecized in Romans 11:26. It is not any formal religion or sect. Therefore leaders of Messianic communities, as part of the Jewish movement, cannot be Gentiles but should be Jewish without exception. Gentiles can be accepted in such communities with no demand to keep to the Jewish Law, as stated by the Apostolic Council of Yerushalayim (Acts 21:25, cf. also a similar movement of Noachides within traditional Judaism). Since Gentiles cannot head Messianic communities as a result, they can organize Messianic groups within own Christian confessions provided no Messianic community exists near them. In this case they can support authentic Messianic features surviving in their current denominations.
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