I am going to list the basic tenets of two different faiths, and you tell me which is the one true faith of the scriptures that Paul taught, and which is not the one true faith, but a counterfeit of it.
FAITH #1
Messiah Yahoshua—born on the Feast of Tabernacles (in the fall)
Crucified on Passover (it was on the 4th day of the week that year)
In the tomb for three days and three nights during the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Rose again during the night on the Feast of Firstfruits
The NEW covenant of marriage (“ketubah”) was then revealed on the Feast of Weeks (Acts 2)
Those who believe in Messiah Yahoshua, and who confess HIM before others (enduring in belief, regardless of the consequences for doing so—Hebrews 10:39—during a period of testing required of all Yah’s true children—James 1), are saved by the Father’s giving of the covenant—by His will and in His time. When the Father gives a person the covenant, which is the seal of the Holy Spirit on Messiah’s bride, the Spirit will testify to that person, directly and personally, that he is an adopted child of Yah (Romans 8:16).
Those who have been given the covenant are grafted into Messiah’s bride Y’isra-el (Hebrews 8:10, Romans 11), to whom the Father gives His Sabbaths as a family sign, and they gather on the weekly Sabbath for fellowship and spiritual instruction.
NOTE: ALL of these things are taught in the scriptures.
FAITH #2
Jesus (Greco-Roman name that didn’t exist in the first century)–born on the annual celebration of the sun god’s birth (dies natalis solis invicti) December 25
Crucified on some random Friday
In the tomb for far less than three days and three nights
Rose again at dawn on the pagan fertility ritual called easter/ishtar
No idea what the NEW covenant is, or the difference between the OLD and the NEW
This faith’s idea of salvation is to feel really bad about the things you’ve done, and to ask forgiveness for those things (found nowhere in scripture) and ask its messiah jesus into your heart (also found nowhere in scripture). Different flavors of this faith teach different things about its salvation’s permanence, some teaching it can be lost, and others teaching that the decision one made and prayer one prayed put the Holy Spirit into him instantly (even though the Holy Spirit never testifies directly to the person). The ultimate decision of their “salvation” is something man decides and controls.
Those of this faith mostly reject the seventh day Sabbath, and claim, rather, that its adherents are to assemble together on the first day of the week, “the venerable day of the sun” (also found nowhere in the scriptures).
NOTE: MOST of these things do NOT appear anywhere in the scriptures.
So here’s the question:
Which of these faiths is the ONE true faith that Paul spoke of in Ephesians 4:4-6? Is it the faith that is supported by the whole of scripture, or is it the faith that evolved in the 2nd and 3rd centuries and was codified in the 4th century by the sun-worshiping emperor Constantine?
There IS only one true faith, and one is either in the true one, or one is in a counterfeit of it. There is no eternal life in what is counterfeit (again, John 4:24).
These are two DIFFERENT faiths, so, which is YOUR faith? Is it Faith #1 or Faith #2?
For more information: Why I Am No Longer a Christian