Yahwism - a short summary

Yahwism is the original ancient monotheistic Hebrew Bible belief - that developed from an understanding of an ancient loose grouping of Canaanite sects (tribal people dwelling on the upper Levant) that eventually became known as Israelites. The Hebrew name Israel (Yisra’el) is most properly interpreted to mean ‘he who struggles with Power’ or ‘with Might’. The Hebrew word EL (AL) has the meaning of strength, power, or might. These Israelites over time, accepted only the deity named YHWH (Yahweh) meaning ‘He-is, He-exists, or The-Ever living’ in Hebrew, as their only one Almighty Sovereign Creator and Life Essence of all that is, to serve Him only, and they rejected all others. Today, Yahwists follow the Torah (the principles outlined in the Hebrew Bible). They accept Yahshua (aka Jesus) only as an Israelite prophet. They reject the authority of the Pharisee Paul of Tarsus and do not view the New Testament Books as inspired. They reject the Christian Trinity and the man-god divinity of Yahshua. They reject Judaism and its corruption by its additions of oral traditions, as did the prophet Yahshua. Yahwists are also followers of the teaching of the prophet Yahshua, who taught his followers about the Kingdom of Yahweh, that is was available to all, and that it is now dwelling within believers, who do the will of Yahweh.

The emphasis of Yahwism - is the immediate and joyful presence and availability of Yahweh, the Creator of all; the second most important emphasis is the belief in the eternal universal Kingdom of Yahweh. Yahwism teaches that we should exercise kindness, humility and compassion in our daily practice of belief. Without care, consideration and concern for others, anything else we might do is pointless. Yahwism emphasizes that all are able to be included in the eternal universal kingdom of Yahweh – the poor, the outcast and the rejected, not just those whom others have judged to be righteous. We believe all that turn to Yahweh as their Sovereign Creator, keep His Covenant, repent before Him for sins, worship Him only, are His children, have become part of His heavenly household, and will live forever in His Kingdom throughout His eternal Universe.

Yahwism is the name – for that original Israelite religious belief. The name comes from the Biblical name of Yahweh, (YHWH) in Hebrew. The name Yahweh is represented by the Hebrew four consonants YHWH (also called the Tetragrammaton) and appears approximately 6,828 times in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).  This makes it the most frequently used name for the Almighty Sovereign Creator in the Hebrew Scriptures, occurring in every Hebrew Bible book except Esther (a folk tale), Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. .Far from seeking to break away from the faith of his ancestors and to create a new religion, Yahshua (aka Jesus) was actually trying to bring the First Century Israelite people back to the true ideology of the original basic Israelite religious belief in the Creator Yahweh, to worship Him only, abiding by His revealed precepts according to those found in the Hebrew Bible.

We view Yahshua - as a fully human Israelite prophet, who was called by Yahweh to deliver his appointed message to the Israelite people. Just as Amos and Jeremiah were prophets of the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles respectively, so we believe that Yahshua` was meant to have been a prophet of the Roman exile. By calling Israel back to the true heart of Torah, compassion and justice. Yahshua` was never to be the centre of our faith, our faith is to be in Yahweh alone. It is not the person of Yahshua who is important, but rather his message to us of the Kingdom of Yahweh, and to worship Yahweh only.

The ways in which we differ from Christianity:

 We reject the trinity concept; we believe in one indivisible Almighty Sovereign Creator named Yahweh – the original Almighty of ancient Israel – who is incorporeal, the ever-living.

 We reject Yahshua’s divinity, and we believe that he was a mortal man called by the Yahweh to be a prophet to first century Israelites.

 We reject the virgin birth. We believe that Yahshua was born of normal human parentage.

 We reject the notion that Yahshua died to atone for sin, or that his death had anything to do with salvation, because such practice is condemned by Yahweh, that it was a cruel and unjust death at the hands of the Roman authorities helped along by religious Jewish instigators.

 We reject the authority of the teachings of Paul of Tarsus. We believe that he was an apostate from ancient Yahwism and that the main beliefs of the Christian religion developed from his opinions, and his own ideology, but not from the beliefs or teachings of Yahshua, or from the Hebrew Bible. He did not receive his information from Inspiration of Yahweh.

How we differ from mainstream Judaism - Modern Judaism for the most part is now based on the teachings of Rabbis, (loosely from the Hebrew Bible, and oral traditions). Yahshua called their teaching the traditions of man. The pronouncements of Yahshua, where he seemingly speaks against Torah, are in fact criticisms of the Oral Law (their teachings) as developed by the Pharisees (and of their inheritors, the Rabbis of today). For this reason, we reject the authority of the Jewish Talmud, and the Kabala.

Our mission - is to spread the peace of the Kingdom of Yahweh in this world; to be peacemakers, and help the diversity of humanity to get along with each other (if possible religiously). We also need to make people aware that the historical belief of the first Israelite followers of Yahshua is still very much alive. We know that there are many people who are dissatisfied with the beliefs and teachings of mainstream Christianity, but are still unaware that there is a viable, historical true Biblical alternative, called Yahwism, the original monotheistic belief in the Almighty Sovereign Creator named Yahweh.

Compiled by the Assembly of Yahweh, Cascade

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