GUEST POST: Why Does Christianity Teach Us To Do Everything BUT What Jesus Did? By Steven R Bruck

Christianity has always said that followers of Yeshua (Jesus) should do as he did, but then they teach people to do everything BUT what Yeshua did! 

And if you ask me, the worst thing that they have taught is to worship Yeshua and center everything around him, effectively replacing the worship of God with the worship of Yeshua. 

Everything Yeshua did, for every miracle he performed and for every commandment he required, he gave glory and credit to God, his Father.

He never took any credit for himself; every single thing he did was to glorify God. 

In fact, throughout the Gospel of John, we read many times how Yeshua said that he only did what God told him to do and he only said what God told him to say. 

And this replacement of God with Yeshua, which is a form of idolatry, is seen in the dual prophecy Yeshua gave regarding him being lifted up like the snake in the desert (John 3:15). 

One aspect of that prophecy was about the immediate future, i.e. Yeshua’s crucifixion, and the other was about the distant future. 

This is what happened with the snake.

In Numbers 21:6-9, we read about the snake in the desert, which was at first only a symbol of the salvation God granted from death (by snakebite) whenever someone looked to it, but later the snake was worshipped as an idol (2 Kings 18:4), and as such replaced God. 

The prophecy Yeshua made was to warn us against this, but it has happened exactly as he said it would, for today Christianity rarely glorifies God but instead has made Yeshua God and replaced the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with Yeshua, the Messiah. 

I am absolutely certain that if Yeshua came to the earth right now, he would be pretty upset with the “Church” for having done this.

Yeshua NEVER made himself the object of our worship, but Christianity has.

This is also one of the reasons (besides Christians killing Jews) that Jews cannot accept anything about Yeshua, because it is a violation of the very watchword of our faith, the Shemah prayer, where we say the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. 

By making Yeshua the object of worship, the early church leaders guaranteed that no Jew would accept Yeshua as Messiah, and also fulfilled the prophecy Yeshua made about being like the snake in the desert, eventually replacing worship of God with the worship of him.

So you decide.

Are you going to also fulfill the prophecy of Yeshua and lift him up above and in place of God, or are you going to worship God, alone, and accept Yeshua for what he is- the Messiah?

Yeshua is the servant of God.

He’s not God, he’s the Messiah, God’s servant, and the only means of salvation since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. 

Truth be told, it doesn’t matter if Yeshua is really God in a separate form or just the son of God because that is not what saves us– faith in God and acceptance of Yeshua as our Messiah is what saves us. 

Yeshua has a role to play, as Messiah, and until that role is completed after the new earth comes down from heaven, Yeshua is only the Messiah, and nothing more, deserving of praise and glory, but not deserving of worship because we worship only God, just the same way Yeshua said he did.