Builders of Israel Doctrinal Statement
(Some sections have been taken from ariel.org's statement of faith)
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Israel:
We hold that Israel is a created nation. Israel's membership is made up of physical descendants of Jakob through the father, women who marry Israelite men, and children born to or adopted by Israelite men. The only spiritualization of the term Israel in scripture occurs when speaking of the difference between believing Israel and unbelieving Israel. (Gal 6:15-16, Romans 2:28-29,Romans 9:6).
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We hold that the so-called "modern state" (we prefer "renewed state") of Israel is Biblical Israel, with no discernible differences. The God of Israel has begun to bring Israelites from every corner of the earth as prophesied in Ezekiel. 36-37. Ultimately, this task will be complete only when Yeshua returns to rule and reign from Zion during the messianic kingdom. (Rev.20)
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Assembly of Messiah (the church):
The Assembly/Ecclesia is the unity of Israelite believers and Gentile believers. Each population is equal at the foot of the cross as God shows no partiality. However, each retains its unique identity, calling, and purposes.
We reject classical dispensationalist terminology, which declares that "Israel and the Church are separate". This concept is not found in scripture for several reasons.
1: It redefines church as an age instead of an assembly.
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2: It ignores that the remnant of Israel holds membership in the assembly of the Messiah equally with gentile believers. We reject the teaching that Jews cease to be Jews or Israelites when they become followers of Yeshua. The most Israelite thing a Jew can do is accept the Jewish messiah. It is illogical and unreasonable to conclude that a Jew ceases to be a Jew by following the Messiah of Israel
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3. It denies the active blessing of God through the Abrahamic covenant to true Israel/believing Jews by eliminating them from National Israel.
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The Scriptures:
We believe that the Scriptures are the inspired Word of God; that inspiration of the original autographs was plenary and verbal and, hence, the sixty-six books of the Bible are inerrant in the original documents; that it is the sole authority for faith and practice in all matters to which it speaks.
The God Head:
We believe there is one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; that all three possess equally all the same attributes, nature, perfections, and characteristics of personality.
Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus The Christ
Section One - The Deity of Messiah:
We believe in the full deity of the Lord Jesus Messiah who always was and will be God and did not cease to be God at the incarnation.
Section Two - The First Advent:
We believe that the Man, Yeshua, was conceived by the Holy Spirit; that He was born of the virgin Miriam; that He possesses both a divine and human nature both distinct and unmixed; that He was without sin; that He died a penal substitution for the sin of all men; that He was buried; that He arose on the third day in the same but glorified body in which He lived and died; that He ascended to the right hand of God the Father; that by His death He provided atonement for all men, but it is applied only to those who trust in Him.
Section Three - The Present Session:
We believe that the God-Man Yeshua-Messiah now sits at the right hand of God the Father; that He functions as the High Priest for all believers ever making intercession for them.
Section Four - The Second Advent:
We believe in the personal and physical and bodily return of Messiah Yeshua as king of Israel to sit on David's throne in Jerusalem for 1000 years.
Ruach HaKodesh, The Holy Spirit:
We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit; that He is the infallible author and interpreter of the infallible Word; that He convicts, regenerates, indwells, empowers, instructs, and guides the believer in living, service, and worship through His gifts; that in this age He baptizes and permanently indwells and seals all believers into one body; that His chief purpose is to witness and glorify Messiah; that His fullness and power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
The Dispensations:
We believe that the dispensations are stewardships by which God administers His purpose on earth through man by varying responsibilities; that they are chronologically successive; that they are not ways of salvation nor different methods of the administration of the "Covenant of Grace"(a covenant that does not exist in the Biblical text and is only assumed to exist in Reformed Covenant Theology which BOI rejects) but are a test of man's submission to God based on progressive revelation; that they are a necessary view of Scripture based on literal interpretation, a consistent distinction of believing Israel and Gentile believers, and that the ultimate purpose of God is His own glorification; that they are not different ways of salvation but in every dispensation the justification of salvation was always the blood of Messiah, the means of salvation was always by grace through faith, the object of faith was always God, but the content of faith changed in different dispensations dependent upon progressive revelation.
Salvation:
We believe that salvation is wholly a work of God's free grace and not the work of man in whole or in part, nor due to man's goodness or religious ceremony; that it is a gift to man received by personal faith and God given free will at which time the righteousness of Messiah is imputed to the sinner, thereby justifying him in God's sight. Salvation is obtained by the individual’s free will choice to accept or reject salvation through the work and accomplishment of Yeshua’s perfect life, death and resurrection.
The Great Commission:
We believe that it is the responsibility of both the ecclesia and the individual believer to evangelize and disciple all nations both actively (doing the work of evangelism) and passively (supporting those doing the work of evangelism): that the specific procedure for discipling the nations is “to the Jew first” and this is also true in both active and passive evangelism. Romans 1:16.