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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Tolstoy on the Church

 

"Lev Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana" (1908) the first color photo portrait in Russia. 

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church."


In reality, what we refer to as "the Church" is a Tradition that the early followers of Jesus Messiah received from their Hebrew ancestors (4000-2000 BC). That Messianic Tradition is what shapes the Church. Without it, the Church would not exist.

Before Judaism emerged as a world religion there was a Messianic Tradition among Abraham's Hebrew ancestors. The early Hebrew were a ruler-priest caste that believed in God Father and God Son. The "son" was called HR in Proto-Egyptian, meaning "Most High One" or "Hidden One".  

The Horite and Sethite Hebrew dispersed throughout the Ancient Near East and into central Africa. The oldest known site of Horite Hebrew worship is Nekhen, an ancient city that stretched for two miles along the Nile. Votive offerings at the Nekhen temple were ten times larger than the normal mace heads and bowls found elsewhere, suggesting that this was a very prestigious shrine. Horite Hebrew priests placed invocations and prayers to Re (Father) and HR (Hur/Heru/Hor/Horus) at the summit of the fortress as the sun rose. For the early Hebrew, the sun was the symbol of God Father and the co-equal Son. They viewed the solar arc as God's path through the heavens.

The Son was also called Y-Shu, which is the basis of the name Yeshua, translated "Jesus in English Bibles. According to the early Nilotic Hebrew, the first act of the Creator at the beginning was šw (Shu), meaning light. This is not the light of day. It is the eternal, uncreated light associated with the High God's son Y-shu (Yeshua), as proclaimed in John's Prologue.

What has been taught concerning the Church's foundation has been inadequate because it assumes that Christianity was a Jewish sect. Creedal Christianity represents the holy Tradition received from Abraham and his Hebrew ancestors long before Judaism existed.




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