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 [The following is adopted as a statement of shared
convictions which is intended as an introduction for a further
discussion of soteriology (the doctrine of salvation). It does not
replace or substitute for any part of the UMJC’s doctrinal statement,
which is the foundational statement of the UMJC.]
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The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations
holds that the One G-d, the G-d of creation, the G-d of Israel, the G-d of
our ancestors, of Whom our tradition speaks, reveals Himself uniquely,
definitively, and decisively in the life, death, resurrection, and return of
Yeshua the Messiah.
Yeshua is the incarnation of the Divine
WORD through Whom the world was made, and of the Divine GLORY through Whom
G-d revealed Himself to Israel and acted in their midst. He is the living
Torah, expressing perfectly in His example and teaching the Divine purpose
for human life. Yeshua is completely human and completely divine.
As the risen Messiah and the heavenly Kohen
Gadol (High Priest), Yeshua continues to mediate G-d’s relationship to His
people Israel, to those of the nations who have joined the greater
commonwealth of Israel in Him, and to all creation. G-d’s plan of salvation
and blessing for Israel, the nations, and the entire cosmos is fulfilled only
in and through Yeshua, by virtue of His atoning death and bodily
resurrection, and G-d’s gift of life to both Jews and Gentiles, in this world
and in the world to come, is bestowed and appropriated only in and through
Him.
Affirmed by the UMJC delegates, November
12, 2003.
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