Article #84
Subject: Seven articles of faith
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 10/17/2011 01:09:42 PM

Joseph Rabinowitz’s Seven articles of faith:

1. I believe with perfect faith, that our heavenly Father is the living
and true, and eternal God who created heaven and earth and everything visible
and invisible and invisible through His Word and His Holy Spirit. All things
are from Him. All things are in Him. All things to Him.
2. I believe with perfect faith that our heavenly Father has, according
to His promise made to our forefathers, to our prophets, and to our King
David, the son of Jesse, raised unto Israel a Redeemer, Jesus, who was born
of the virgin Mary, in Bethlehem the city of David, who suffered, was
crucified dead and buried for our salvation, rose again from the dead, and
liveth, and sitteth at the right hand of our heavenly Father, from thence he
shall come to judge the world, the living, the and the dead. He is the
appointed King over the house of Jacob forever, and of His dominion there
shall be no end.
3. I believe with perfect faith, that by the counsel of God and His
foreknowledge, our fathers have been smitten with hardness of heart for sin
and for rebellion against our Messiah, the Lord Jesus, in order to provoke
the other nations of the earth unto jealously, and to reconcile all through
faith in Christ, by the word of His Evangelists, in order that the knowledge
of Jehovah should cover the earth, and Jehovah be King over the whole world.
4. I believe, with a perfect faith, that through faith in Jesus, the
Messiah alone, without the works of the law, a man may be justified; that
there is but one God, who justifies the circumcised Jews by faith, and the
uncircumcised through faith and that there is no difference between a Jew and
Greek, between bond and free, between male and female. There are all one in
Christ.
5. I believe with a perfect faith, in a Holy Catholic and Apostolic
church.
6. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.
7. I wait for the resurrection and renewed life of the dead, and for the
life of the world to come. Amen.

For Thy salvation, I wait, O Lord; I wait, O Lord, for Thy salvation, O lord
for Thy salvation I wait.

In a debate between Rabinowitz and other Jewish rabbis in Kishinev Russia in
1884 these articles were compared with those of the Church of England and the
differences were argued between Ziegler a brother in-law of Faltin
representing the orthodox Jews and Rabinowitz and other Hebrew Christians
present.

It was noted that the first four articles are in almost perfect agreement
with the first four Christian ones. However, Rabinowitz omits mentioning that
there are three persons of one substance in the godhead. Yet he affirms that
God creates and upholds everything by His Word and His Holy Spirit.

See “Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement” by Kai Kjaer Hansen, page
98.

There is also a statement of his twenty-four and twelve articles of faith in
chapter 8 of the book “Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement” by Kai
Kjaer Hansen