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What we believe
The following statement is deliberately brief. Each article of faith is set out from the text of Scripture.
One
The Word of God gives a person life
We believe that the whole of the Old and New Testaments is the Word breathed out by God and the final standard for faith and life. We further believe that this Word truly gives a person life. This conviction is the entire reason for this organization's existence.
All graphe(written-scripture) is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for paideia(training, discipline) in dikaiosyne(righteousness);
so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe witness of both Testaments
A Word that is living and does not return empty
The Old Testament first declares that a person does not live by bread alone but by everything that proceeds from the mouth of God. That Word does not return empty.
that He might make you know that man (adam) does not live by bread alone, but by all that proceeds out of the mouth of YHWH does man (adam) live.
Deuteronomy 8:3 · Yeshua Literal Versionso shall my word be that goes out of my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall do what I please, and prosper in that for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe New Testament states the same truth with greater sharpness: the Word is not an object that a person handles, but a living reality that discerns the person.
For the logos(word) of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of psyche(soul) and pneuma(spirit), of joints and marrow, and discerning the enthumeseis(intentions, thoughts) and ennoiai(attitudes, dispositions) of the kardia(heart, soul-domain).
Hebrews 4:12 · Yeshua Literal VersionIt is through this Word that a person is born again, and through this Word that the soul is saved.
since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable — through the living and abiding logos(word) of God.
1 Peter 1:23 · Yeshua Literal VersionTherefore, putting away all filthiness and rampant wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted logos(word), which is able to save your psychai(souls).
James 1:21 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe One to whom Scripture points
Scripture bears witness to one person
Yeshua Himself declared to whom these Scriptures point. The Bible is not a repository of knowledge but a book that bears witness to one person.
You search the graphai(written-scriptures) because you think that in them you have eternal zoe(life); it is these that testify about Me;
John 5:39 · Yeshua Literal VersionTwo
One God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit
We believe in one God, who has made Himself known in Scripture as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The three names do not signify three Gods, nor does the oneness of God abolish the three names. This is the faith the church has confessed from the beginning, and we stand within it.
When Yeshua commissioned His disciples, He spoke in precisely these terms — not of “names,” but of one “name.”
Go therefore and make disciples of all the ethne(ethnic-groups, Gentiles), baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit),
Matthew 28:19 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe charis(grace) of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ), and the agape(love) of God, and the koinonia(fellowship, participation) of the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit), be with you all. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:14 · Yeshua Literal VersionThree
The seven “I am” sayings of Yeshua
At the centre of our faith stands not a doctrine but the self-declaration of one person. John records seven occasions on which Yeshua said of Himself “I am” — in Greek, egō eimi (ἐγώ εἰμι). The expression corresponds to the very form by which God made His name known at the burning bush.
The seven sayings are presented below without commentary. They are not statements that require explanation but statements that call for faith.
John 6:35 · Yeshua Literal Version
John 8:12 · Yeshua Literal Version
John 10:9 · Yeshua Literal Version
John 10:11 · Yeshua Literal Version
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die; do you believe this?"
John 11:25–26 · Yeshua Literal Version
John 14:6 · Yeshua Literal Version
John 15:1 · Yeshua Literal Version
“this is what I teach.”
Each declares “I am.”
Four
We await the One who will come again
We believe in, and await, the bodily return of Yeshua. This is not a peripheral element of our faith but its very orientation. On the day He was taken up into the sky, those who stood by heard these words.
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua(Jesus), who was taken up from you into the sky, will come in the same way as you watched Him go into the sky."
Acts 1:11 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe citizenship of the saints is therefore not here but in heaven, and from there we eagerly wait for Him. On that day the body of our humble state will be transformed into the likeness of His body of glory.
For our politeuma(commonwealth-citizenship) is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ);
who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the energeia(working) of His dynamai(being-able) to subject all things to Himself.
Philippians 3:20–21 · Yeshua Literal Versionlooking for the blessed elpis(hope) and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ),
Titus 2:13 · Yeshua Literal VersionFive
We believe in the first resurrection
We confess the faith of the resurrection without qualification. Those who have died in Messiah will rise first, and those who remain alive will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord. This is the first resurrection.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Messiah(Christ) will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 · Yeshua Literal Versionin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:52 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe Book of Revelation declares that whoever has a part in that resurrection is blessed, and that the second death has no power over them.
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; the second death has no exousia(authority) over these, but they will be priests of God and of the Messiah(Christ) and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6 · Yeshua Literal VersionThat people may believe and attain to that day is the reason we distribute the Bible free of charge. Having said “I am the resurrection and the life,” Yeshua Himself asked, “do you believe this?” All our work exists to bring that question to each individual reader.
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We overcome with inexpressible joy
This faith is not a burden that weighs a person down; it brings gladness. Peter wrote the following to those who had not yet seen Him with their own eyes.
Though you have not known Him, you love Him; though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with chara(joy) that is inexpressible and filled with doxa(glory),
obtaining the outcome of your faith — the Salvation of your psychai(souls).1 Peter 1:8–9 · Yeshua Literal Version
Pain, anxiety and hardship are real in this world, and we do not deny them. We believe, however, that the strength to overcome them arises from this joy. Endurance and rejoicing are not two separate matters. Where a person loves and believes without seeing, an inexpressible joy is given, and that joy raises a person to stand.
Seven
Therefore we sustain one another
This joy is not meant to be kept in isolation. The New Testament names the affection between believers philadelphia (φιλαδελφία) — the love between those born of one Father — and commands that it continue.
Let philadelphia(brotherly-love) continue.
Hebrews 13:1 · Yeshua Literal VersionHaving purified your psychai(souls) by your obedience to the aletheia(truth) through the pneuma(spirit) for a sincere philadelphia(brotherly-love), love one another earnestly from a pure kardia(heart, soul-domain),
1 Peter 1:22 · Yeshua Literal VersionSuch love is not a sentiment but the bearing of another's burden. Yeshua called this a new commandment and declared it to be the mark by which the world recognises His disciples.
Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the nomos(law) of Messiah(Christ).
Galatians 6:2 · Yeshua Literal VersionA new commandment I give to you, that you agapao(love) one another, even as I have agapao(loved) you, that you also agapao(love) one another.
By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have agape(love) for one another.
John 13:34–35 · Yeshua Literal VersionWe therefore seek to establish communities in which believers genuinely sustain one another: where an absence is noticed, where one who has lost employment may speak of it openly, and where the name of the sick is remembered throughout the week. This is precisely the purpose of YLV Bible Study.
Concluding note
This statement is not intended as a judgement on the confession of any other church. It sets out the convictions on which this organization carries out its work. Further enquiries may be directed to us through Contact; every enquiry receives a candid reply.
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All passages quoted above are from the Yeshua Literal Version, available in its complete form free of charge.